Richard Jolicoeur

Richard Jolicoeur (1952-), Ph. D, solitary self-taught artist, was able to reconcile for thirty-five years his work as a teacher and the concrete expression of a double creative passion inspired by the spirit of north-american counter-culture both in his musical (bandcamp/richard jolicoeur) and pictural works. He embodied some of his main pictural concerns during the eighties while he was an active participant in a few collective exhibitions in the National Capital Area as well as in a solo retrospective of his work in 1983 called My heart is large as a pizza. Handling alternately humour, self-mockery, misappropriation as well as the spirit of collage in his pop naïve production, some of his works have found themselves in private collections. For a few years, he also presided the board of directors of the SAHB ().
The interest he has shown in the musical experiment process expresses itself alternately through theatral rock (Carnivore : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SydoQwYvK20), noise music and free jazz with Les Vents Fous, a group active in parrallel galeries. This last decade has been dedicated to computer aided music production (CAMP : 6), several musical works available online are testimony to that fact (https://www.youtub...