“Balm (with studies from Blossfeldt)”, Baume, 1999 Painting

Tanya Morand's paintings and mixed media works have been exhibited across Canada, in the United States and in Europe, including the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bay-Saint-Paul. In 2015 her exhibition Paseando entre las grietas (Sauntering Between the Cracks) was presented at Brita Prinz Arte in Madrid, and at Cross Street Arts in England. Her works have been purchased by the CPOA of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, the Inno-Centre collection in Montréal, the Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts, and numerous private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has been awarded grants by the Canada Council for the Arts, SODEC and the Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec. She teaches drawing and painting part time at Champlain St. Lawrence College in Quebec City. Tanya Morand's artwork explores essentially the everyday environment, investigating the emotional impact of objects, places and spaces in an urban context. Drawing and painting are integral to her artistic practice that also includes the production of photographs, silkscreen prints, collage and mixed media works. Tanya Morand's most recent works are inextricably linked to the neighbourhoods that she passes through, looks at and documents each day. Her new compositions are based on collages she makes from her photos, revealing another space through the image of a first space by cutting away arabesques and cracks. Blurring the boundaries between photo and paint, these paradoxical spaces intend to suggest an interlacing of dream, memory and reality. Morand says about these new images: "So often when wandering through a city, an architectural detail, or the way the light falls on a wall, may spark a memory of another place. It is as if each city has a labyrinth of memories spread beneath its facades, and wandering through, one saunters between the past and present." See more on the artist's web site : http://www.tanyamorand.com