Programming
Michelle Guay and Denise Lapointe
Paintings
The painting work of Michelle Guay and Denise Lapointe is practiced within a precise area: abstraction.
The painting work of Michelle Guay and Denise Lapointe is practiced within a precise area: abstraction. Contrary to a recent fashion, this abstraction proceeds with economy: no impasto, nor objects integrated into the canvas, but thin layers of acrylic superimposed whose function is to create effects of depth, to disturb the relationship between the figure and the background.
Michelle Guay multiplies the ways of painting historically linked to abstraction: dripping, flatness, textures. Otherwise, Denise Lapointe situates floating forms on changing backgrounds that sometimes fix them, sometimes let them drift.
- Pascale Beaudet, guest curator