Karine Léger

KARINE LÉGER N O U V E A U X PAY S A G E S 4 - 29 May 2019

Cover: Changing Light (Detail) Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas ,101 x 121cm Inside Cover: August in January 3 (Detail) Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 91 x 91cm Additional works will be available during the exhibition.

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KARINE LÉGER N O U V E A U X PAY S A G E S 4 - 29 May 2019

Join us for the exhibition opening on Saturday 4th May from 2-4pm

&Gallery 17 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk 07711 285 545

KARINE LÉGER A graphic designer by profession, Canadian Karine Léger began to explore her interest in painting in the early 2000’s. Over the ensuing years, her artistic vision evolved through photography, collage and painting.

Karine Léger’s approach first involves the need to deconstruct in order to lay the foundations for an introspective reconstruction. From paper or digital cut-outs, her compositions are born out of a collaging process. Colours, textures and shapes are meticulously selected to be arranged and rearranged, assembled and reassembled, in a quest for the right balance. Similar but independent forms come together, at times nearly touching, other times precariously balancing on one another and, on occasion, merging.

This slow, deliberate, creative process is how Karine Léger builds the foundation of her next work. Nothing is rushed, nothing is forced. She stops only when that precious balance has been achieved. Although the composition is set, she reserves the right to stray from the concept in deference to the canvas.

Deeply connected to her personal life, superimposed layers of images and transparent acrylics has its own story to tell. The shapes seem anthropomorphic at times, reflecting that constant desire for balance. But they only reveal just enough, allowing plenty of room for the viewers to find their own interpretation or story.

Karine Léger lives and works in Montréal, Canada.

Moon Pulls Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 121 x 101cm

Banquise Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 101 x 101cm

Walk with the Moon Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 101 x 101cm

Trembling Heart 3 Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 91 x 182cm

Valse & Rencontre Secrète 7 Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 60 x 60cm

Echoes 1 Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 91 x 91cm

From Here to There Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 121 x 91cm

Always By My Side 2 Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 121 x 91cm

Turning Point Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas, 121 x 121cm

SOLO / 2 PERSON SHOWS 2019 2018 2017 2016 2016 2015 2014 2012

Nouveaux Paysages (solo) – &Gallery – Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) Recent works (solo) – Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA (USA) Karine Léger and Jeremy Holmes – Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA (USA) Where we met (solo) – Exhibit by Aberson, Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA) Karine Léger and Jaeok Lee – Lanoue Gallery, Boston (USA) Intervalle with Patricia Barrowman – Galerie MX, Montreal (Canada) Karine Léger and Joanna Chelkowska – Galerie D, Montreal (Canada) Le nord, le sud with Daniel Lalonde – Galerie Espace, Montreal (Canada)

GROUP SHOWS 2019 Recent work, Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA (USA) 2018 Unrestricted, &Gallery – Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) 2018 Wonderland, Space Gallery – Denver, CO (USA) 2018 Four person show, &Gallery – Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) 2017 Solo à Quatre – Montreal, Qc (Canada) 2017 Modern Primitive, Exhibit by Aberson, Tulsa, OK (USA) 2016/17 Trunk Show, Simon Breitbard Fine Arts – San Francisco, CA (USA) 2016 Summer Group Show – Lanoue Gallery, Boston (USA) 2016 Salon du printemps des artistes des Cantons-de-l’Est – Musée des beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke (Canada) 2014 Winter Group Show – Lanoue Gallery, Boston (USA) 2014 Traits abstraits – Galerie MX, Montreal (Canada) 2013 Déconstruction – Galerie D, Montreal (Canada) 2012 Pi 2 – Galerie MX, Montreal (Canada) 2011 Expositie Dierlijk – Gesamt Galerie, Rotterdam (Netherlands) P U B L I C AT I O N S 2018 2018 2017 2016 2015 2013 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010

Artscope Magazine «Layers of Beauty» https://artscopemagazine.com/2018/03/legere-at-lanoue-layers-of-beauty/ Poetry book «Golgotha» by Benoit Jutras (Montreal) – book cover Poetry book «The Cold and the Rust: Poems» by Emily Van Kley (USA) – book cover Exhibit by Aberson, «Where we met» https://abersonexhibits.com/blog/06-14-2016/where-we-met-karine-leger-opensthursday Mixte Magazine, «Art in the balance» http://mixtemagazine.ca/en/lifestyle/arts-lifestyle/karine-leger-art-in-the-balance/ Museum of Fine Arts of Sherbrooke – annual auction catalog of works of art Nous sommes les filles https://noussommeslesfilles.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/karine-leger/ Poetry book «Onun Çölünde» by Bejan Matur (Istanbul) – book cover Poetry book «Fake Book» by Tony Leuzzi (New York) – book cover Décover Magazine (Montreal) – artist’s portfolio Slice Magazine No 7 (Brooklyn) – article illustration

G A L L E R Y R E P R E S E N TAT I O N The &Gallery – Edinburgh (UK) Lanoue Gallery – Boston (USA) Space Gallery – Denver (USA) Simon Breitbard Fine Arts – San Francisco, CA (USA)

&Gallery, 17 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG www.andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk