Guylaine Chevarie-Lessard

Guylaine Chevarie-Lessard is an emerging artist and essayist. She works between Montreal and Frelighsburg in Quebec, CA. Her works of part of private and corporate collections including Desjardins. She has several solo exhibitions at her credit, both in Quebec and in Canada. She has a Ph.D. in arts from Quebec University in Montreal (2015). Her thesis has been published in 2019 to Nota Bene editions (The Voice, between the Audible and the Visible). She has also a master in Art philosophy (UQAM, 2001) and a BFA in Visuals Arts (Concordia, 2009). Her last exhibitions has been presented at McClure Gallery (Montreal) and at Maison des arts de Laval, Qc (2019).

My pictorial practice focuses on the close links that unite the body and its experience of the landscape. I am inspired by modern painting – understood as a search of « absolute form » - whose heritage she pursues while seeking to update it. However, it differs from formalism since « form » here carries poetic meaning. I present these pictorial works in an installation form creating a dialogue between each of the works which form here pictorial poems whose relationships are articulated like a musical phrasing. These works tell nothing, tell no story. They are a sensitiv abstra...

2015 — Ph.D. Studies and Practices of the Arts – Université du Québec à Montréal
2009 — B.F.A. Studio Arts, concentration painting-drawing – Concordia University
2005 — Doctoral studies in literary tuition – Université du Québec à Montréal
2002 — Master's degree in philosophy – Université du Québec à Montréal
1999 — B.A. of arts and letters - Université de Montréal
• Major in philosophy
• Minor in film studies

I. Solo exhibitions:

2022 — Abysses II. FOFA Gallery, Concordia University. Montreal.
2020 — Abysses. McClure Gallery. Montreal.
2019 — Espace du dedans IV. Maison des arts de Laval.
2018 — Espace du dedans III. Arts and Culture Center of Dieppe, Dieppe, NB.
2018 — Espace du dedans II. Culture Center of Dorval, Dorval.
2017 — Espace du dedans. Arts Sutton Gallery, Sutton.
2016 — Loin des bruits du monde III. Du Parc Gallery, Trois-Rivière.
2015 — Loin des bruits du monde II. Bonheur d’Occasion Gallery, Montreal.
2015 — Loin des bruits du monde I. L’Aire Libre Gallery of the Monet Library, Montreal.
2013 — Faire danser la voix. Cdex (Centre for dissemination and Experimentation Students of the master in visual and media arts at UQAM).

II. Group exhibitions :

2020 — Pictura show. Galerie Robert Poulin.
2020 — Coups de coeur. Archive art contemporain, Montreal.
2015 — Les traces de la voix. 5e Biennal Drawings at Musée des beaux-arts de Saint-Hilaire.
2014 — Les traces de la voix. Le livre imaginé. L’Aire Libre of the Monet Library, Montreal.