Mariestephane Grenier

I was borned in Montreal, Québec, Canada. My academic path includes fashion design, interior design and arts (UQAM, 1996-1999).
Growing up in an artistic family, my natural penchant for painting enables me to develop an artistic vision that allies theorical knowledge to a tactile technic and sensual approach.

I paint on a rich setting created by successive layers of acrylic and oil from the knife. This background is left intact or water washed from a large brush until obtention of a texture reminding leather.
On this abstract surface where the woman is put forth either actual, historical or mythological, sometimes idealized, protected, sometimes humoristic, with her dreams or fantasies accentuated in an elegant kitsch.

Finding my inspiration from personal experiences in conjunction with foreign cultural studies, my work is transformed in landscapes or flowers flirting with abstraction, like jewelry box containing all at once time, space, gold leaves frequently used in search of opening up the board. I play with my work with the limit between realism and abstraction, the ancient and the contemporary, strength and fragility in the hope of always leaving free course to the observator his own interpretation.

I live and work...

Permanent exhibitions 2019:
Galerie du Château Frontenac, Québec, Canada Galerie Archambault, Lavaltrie, Canada

Anterior:
Galerie Griffintown, Montréal, Canada
Galerie Michel Bigué, Saint-Sauveur, Canada
Galerie Michel Bigue
Galerie MX, Montréal
Galerie Las Olas, Miami, États-Unis Galerie Richelieu, Montréal, Canada Kipling gallery, Toronto, Canada Pacific gallery, Saskatoon, Canada Galerie Studio 261, Montréal, Canada

Group exhibitions:
2017 « The best of », Galerie Archambault, Montréal, Canada
2017 « L’art à l’heure des défis », Galerie le Livart, Montréal, Canada
2017 « Collectif Maroc Canada », Maison du Maroc, Montréal, Canada
2014 « Mythologie », Galerie Archambault, Montréal, Canada
2012 « Synergie », Galerie MX, Montréal, Canada
2011 « Madones », Galerie MX, Montréal, Canada
2009 « Miniatures », Galerie Studio 261, Montréal, Canada
2009 « Paysages réinventés », Galerie Studio 261, Montréal, Canada
2009 « Les variantes du portrait », Galerie Studio 261, Montréal, Canada
2008 « What about if », Kipling Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 « Water », Kipling Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 « Transcendance », Galerie Studio 261, Montréal, Canada
2007 « Femmes artistes, leurs réalisations », Musée d’Ansembourg,...