Andre Paradis

by: Josiah Gagosian | ArtVoice magazine, March 2010 Edition

In Quebec City in the winter of 1969 a fifteen-year-old boy stole away from his parents' house in the night and made his way to the new Grand Theatre. Catalan-born artist, Jordi Bonet was at work there on a massive three thousand square foot relief mural. He had only one arm and suffered from leukemia but in his relatively short life he was able to generate many important large-scale works in metal and concrete using innovative techniques and textures. As he labored there in the frigid weather that year, slathering the wall with concrete, the boy watched his every move. While others his age might have snuck out at night hoping to get into trouble, this boy was different. Bonet's dedication and energy inspired him to take up painting himself and so another significant Quebecois artist was born, Andre Paradis, an artist who developed a similar interest in texture, though he would use it to very different ends. His father was an amateur cabinetmaker, who helped to further encourage his son's artistic interest, by sharing his workshop with the newborn painter. Paradis' artistic education and growth would turn out to be an investigational process, which is still evident ...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 «Illuminated Landscapes» COEXIST Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 The Quiet Life Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey, USA
2010 Distillery Art Market 2010, Toronto, Canada
2010 «Couleur & Matière», Galerie du Passage St-Michel, Paris, France
2010 Salon International du Design Intérieur, Montréal, Canada
2010 «Paradis», Longstreth & Goldberg Gallery, Naples, Florida, USA
2009 «Salon des Refusés», Pool Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach
2009 «Residencies», The Quiet Life Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey, USA
2009 «Dixit», Atypic, Montréal, QC, Canada
2009 «Small Works», La Romana Country Club, Dominican Republic
2008 «Cornucopia #2», Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery, Lambertville, N J, USA
2008 «El Dorado», Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
2007 «Cornucopia», Museo de Ciencia y Cultura, Costa Rica
2007 «Seaside» Cerulean’s, Watercolor, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
2006 «Reflection», ACA Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2006 «Landscapes», Galerie d’Art International, Solana Beach, Calif., USA.
2005 «El Bruc» Can Serrat International Art Centre, El Bruc, Spain
2004 «Introductions», Kent Gallery, Key West, Florida, USA
2003 «Paradis», Maison Pierre DAURA, St-Cirq Lapopie, France
2003 «Nor...

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