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In his paintings, Jean-Sebastien Denis strives to find direction amidst dispersed elements and to unite moving forces through contradictory elements. This tumult allows more room for the concept of space in his work.

The work’s initial strata are dedicated to the volatile and monochromatic world of drawing. Then the rich and colorful substance of paint is applied. The line is the catalyst for exchange between these two media. Layer by layer, the surface becomes more complex. The thing is sabotaged, false starts are created, networks are disconnected here and reconnected there and, suddenly, the chronology of the work is tampered with.

Denis was born in Quebec in 1970. In 1997, he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at Université du Québec à Montréal, where he received top graduate honors by winning the Jacques de Tonnancour Award. His works were already being noticed in several solo exhibitions, such as Étendue (1996) and Remous (1998) at Montreal’s Galerie Lieu Ouest and En avant (1997) at Galerie Le Lobe in Chicoutimi. He has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions, among them Mémoire d’être, the Young Painters of Canada Symposium in Baie-Saint-Paul; and Artifice, held by the Saidye Bronfman Centre of the Arts; and Génération-Montréal/Ville-peinture, organized in Montreal by Marc Séguin in October 2002, and at the Charest-Weinberg Gallery in Key West, Florida.



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Eclaircie 05-27
39" X 28"

Petit Embranchement 05-03
28" X 39"