FRANCE JODOIN : Recent Works
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Christine Klassen Gallery / CKG 321 50 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 2B3
France Jodoin, "I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled," 2017
oil on linen, 60" x 48"
Reception: Thursday October 19, 5-8 pm | Artists in Attendance
As we celebrate our tenth anniversary, it is fitting that we return to our core stable and feature one of our original and most admired painters, France Jodoin. Simply titled, Recent Works, Jodoin’s long-anticipated solo exhibition will showcase ten new oil paintings in her signature marine genre.
“Thematically, I remain completely engaged in the exploration of the marine as a landscape form. I prefer to call the images I create marines because in practice the term often covers art showing as much shipping on rivers, beach scenes and all art showing boats, without any rigid distinction.”
– France Jodoin
Throughout her career, Jodoin has turned her attention to subjects as various as: sea, land, and cityscapes, peopled beach scenes, harbours, boats, and birds, as well as florals and primates, all the while striking a delicate balance between abstraction and figuration. Regardless of subject, it is her deft, gestural handling of paint on linen which transports us to another time or place where we can almost feel and smell the salty sea spray.
“Organic and evocative, timeless and dreamlike, France Jodin’s paintings are like windows into the subconscious. That of the artist as well as that of the observer, for the muted palette, evocative of sky and water, leaves the spectator free to imagine his own scenario. Which is, in fact, the artist’s intent.”
– Isabelle Gauthier
France Jodoin has been exhibiting in galleries and museums in Canada, the United States and Europe for the past fifteen years. She is known and celebrated for her ability to bring a contemporary understanding of materials to a twentieth century exploration of space, often calling to mind Tuner’s churning, emotive skies and Courbet’s impasto landscapes. She lives and works in Cowansville, Quebec.
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