Muriel Jaouich

Muriel Jaouich lives and works in Montreal.
Jaouich showcases the latter stages of a woman's life that address the lack of images in contemporary culture of feminity and aging. Investigating the invisibility of older women and their subjectivities through color and shape, Jaouich destabilizes preconceptions of ugliness and beauty associated with the youthful and elderly. The portraits emphasize the element of transformation and growth through time. In painting the subject's features from a new perspective, the metamorphosis of aging develops as a generative process rather than a degenerative one. Chaotic but unrecognizable, human but otherworldly, the subject of the paintings becomes abstract and expansive as she breaks the boundaries of her form and splinters the viewer's expectations of aging as an unseemly decline.

In progress - BFA Concordia University-Major Painting and Drawing

2015 Salonesque, MAI, Montreal

2015 Glass Door Gallery, Montreal

2014 VAV Gallery, DWELL Exhibit, Montreal

2012 ARTSIDA Galerie Dentaire & MACM, Montreal

2011-2012 FIMA, Montreal

2011 Drawings, The Sketchbook, Brooklyn Art Library

2011 Galerie Mekic, Montreal