Traces – Michèle LaRose
Wellington Street Art Gallery, Toronto, November 15 – December 5, 2011
Michèle LaRose offers a series of paintings that present traces of people and times past. In a departure from her typically strong chromatic paintings, Michèle has been working with layers and veils of white to suggest the passage of time. These paintings seem to reflect details of people, places, events we have either known or not known that are now obscured to us in the mists of time. So whether a painting reminds us of the people who made prehistoric cave paintings, a childhood place or a friend recently departed, we can find only traces of their presence and are left with many unanswered questions. Despite the lightness of white, we feel its weight in these queries. Its opaque nature reminds us that we are all going to enter this state, where only our traces will remain.
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*Work Experience
*Other Related Activities
*Art Classes
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*Éducation
*Travail
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*Cours d’art
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Education/Éducation
1974: Honours B.A., Art History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, CAN.
1996: Fine Arts Certificate, St.Lawrence College, Brockville, Ontario, CAN.
1968-70: Cours en arts plastiques (visual arts). CEGEPs de Ste.Foy (Québec) & Vieux-Montréal (Montréal), CAN.
Work Experience / Travail
Self-employed artist (2003- )
Management Consultant (1989-2002)
National Archives of Canada (1985-1988)
National Museums of Canada (1974-1985)
Government of Saskatchewan (1981-2)
Other Related Activities/ Autres activités reliées:
* 2010 Juror / Membre du jury: Operating Grants, City of Kingston Arts Fund, Kingston, ON
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2007-8 Director/Directeur, Board of Directors, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston, ON
* 2004 Juror / Membre du jury: 2nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, The Gallery at the Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque, ON
* 1999 Juror / Membre du jury: Manotick Art Association, Dam Art Show, Manotick, ON
* 1998 & 1999 Judge / Juge, Art Displays, Delta Ag ricultural Fair, Delta, ON
Art Classes Offered / Cours d’art offerts
2008 Abstraction and Non-Representation; Composition and Design; workshops offered through (CLASS) Community Learning in Pawley’s Island, SC
2005-6 Abstraction and Non-Representation, 6-week course; & Applied Colour Theory Workshop, 3 days; for Rideau Lakes Artists Association, Westport, ON
2003-2005 2-3 courses each year; Rideau Lakes Township Recreation Programme, Elgin, ON
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