Odette Theberge

Born in 1947 in Quebec, Canada. Studied in Qubec, in France and in London UK. Recipient of grants in visual arts, board member for several groups of artists over the years, took part in many juries and committees, as a visual art specialist. Teached art while engaged in a carreer as a painter and sculptor and photographer. Her work is part of many important collections in her country and abroad and got favorable critics from many art specialists in the press and specialised art magazines. See website :

"Chroniques et fragments" presents two components. We first have enhanced photographs, sites photographed while roaming about the streets of ancient cities. We see old tapestries, colors, matters, thickenings, holes, brokens parts, etc. Those photographs have been enhanced with drawing and collage, texts, imprints, as to keep them alive and make those public and urban elements more intimate. By their construction and mood as well as by their colors and textures, those photographs have inspired the corpus of paintings of this new production.
In these paintings, the artist inertwine her own life story by choosins among previous artwork or clippings, fragments of kept images that she conceals, passages of texts about cr...

ODETTE THBERGE
Curriculum vitae (Selection)
Solo exhibitions
2010 Le temps des silences, Galerie La Nef, Qubec.
2009: Chroniques et fragments, Galerie Marie Turgeon, Qubec.
2007: "Trajectoires", Salle Albert-Rousseau, Qubec.
2004: "Mouvances", Galerie Arts Sutton, Sutton.
2003: "/mouvances, Galerie Estampe Plus, Qubec.
2001: "Silences, murmures et cris", Muse Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivires.
2000: "Silences, murmures et cris", Galerie Estampe Plus, Qubec.
1996: "Espaces pressentis", Galerie Estampe Plus et Palais Montcalm, Qubec.
1993: "Fragiles demeures", Galerie Estampe Plus, Qubec.
1991: "Srie des murs", Galerie 291, Toronto.
1991: "Alle pour un jardinmirages", La chambre blanche, Qubec.
1990: "Srie des murs", Galerie d'Auteuil, Qubec et GRAVE, Victoriaville.
1989: "Jardin, lieux de cultures", Centre National d'exposition de Jonquire,
Muse du Bas St-Laurent, Rivire-du-Loup, Centre d'exposition de
Gatineau et Centre d'exposition de Rouyn-Noranda.
1988: "Jardins, lieux de cultures", Galerie d'Auteuil, Qubec,
Galerie de l'Universit de Moncton, N.B.
1973: Commonwealth Institute Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne.
1972: Canada House Gallery, Londres,Grande-Bretagne...

2011:
-8th Biennal International print compétition Center for contemporary printing, Norwalk, Connecticut USA 2011
-Xe exposition internationale d’estampe de Lessedra, Galerie et projets d’art contemporain Lessedra, Sofia, Bulgarie 2011
-Print International of Cadaqués, Barcelone, Espagne 2011
-Amateras Annual Paper art exhibition, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgarie 2011
-Biennale de miniature de Lévis, Galerie Louise-Carrier, Lévis 2011

- International group show Caelum Gallery, New York June 2010