Karine Fréchette
Karine Fréchette’s paintings and volumetric forms construct vertiginous spaces that translate a true obsession for waves and cascades of images. The artist’s gestures weave networks of optical patterns whose slow labour paradoxically evokes electrical pulses, reverberations, constant movements, and the traces left in their wake.
Like a seismograph, the pictorial gesture goes into spasms. The painting surface becomes a vehicle for an energy that passes through space and bodies. Fréchette thus creates an experience of optical and physical exhilaration between the painting and the viewer.
Christine & G. Pierre Lapointe are the generous sponsors of Karine Fréchette’s studio for the years 2019 and 2020/2021/2022.
Biography
Fréchette holds a BFA in Visual and Media Arts from UQÀM, and an MFA in Studio Arts (Painting and Drawing concentration) from Concordia University. In 2014 and 2018, she was a finalist of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. She also participated in the Canadian Team for the 8th edition of Jeux de la Francophonie in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Joseph Plaskett in painting, which allowed her to stay in Berlin and Leipzig (DE) for 8 months. She is represented by Galerie René Blouin in Montreal.
Recent exhibitions
| 2021 | Everything Merges, Emerges, then Fades Again, Group show, Fonderie Darling (Place Publique), Montreal |
| 2020 | Inaugural Exhibition, Galerie Blouin Division, Montreal |
| 2019 | Wakes, Art Mûr Gallery, Berlin (DE) |
| 2018 | Karine Fréchette, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal |
| 2017 | Astérisme, Galerie McClure, Montreal |
| 2016 | Thesis Show, MFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal |
| 2015 | Peinture fraîche et nouvelles constructions, group show, Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal |
| 2014 | Concours de peintures canadiennes RBC, group show, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal |
Origin
Montreal, Canada