Artist News & Events

Contemporary art is often considered the cradle of new perceptions and aesthetic conceptions of space. Using ink, pencil, paint, collage, ceramics, textiles, wood or fibre, eight artists explore the multiple facets of space in their own way, seeking to understand its complexity and possible combinations. Individually, they strive to capture the moment when human action, the process of creating, feeds into this research. The work of the hand becomes crucial. In “doing,” they build an artistic environment that responds to their own myths. ...

C.O.A is proud to present the solo exhibition of Alexandra Duprez. From her beginnings in the mid-90s, Alexandra Duprez has developed an intuitive approach to drawing and painting, inspired by outsider art (art brut) and folk art. Her images conjure up a phantasmagorical, dreamlike world, populated by unsettling creatures, entangled shapes and multiplied eyes, somewhere between figuration and abstraction. ...

Art Toronto opens its doors from October 26 to 29! A major event in Canada, this fair brings together collectors, galleries and artists from all over the world. C.O.A. will be attending again this year, to our great delight! ...

For four days, visit Montreal’s contemporary art galleries and discover a wide selection of exhibitions showcasing the work of many artists. ...

Born in 2000 in Quebec City (Canada), Arnaud L. Vidricaire lives and works in Montreal. His artistic practice takes the form of ambitious spatial installations, through which he tells the story of his inner turmoil. Emotional, non-conscious creations, his works begin with instinctive tracings on the surface of his graphic tablet. He saturates the screen with various tangles of lines, most of which he ultimately discards, retaining only the strongest compositions. ...

For the third time since the beginning of our collaboration, Isaac Cordal presents a solo exhibition at C.O.A. A subversive and committed artist, he offers us a vision that is both playful and sharp of the major socio-political debates of our time. ...

CARNAVAL, an exhibition featuring the works of France Trudel and Moe Piuze, conveys the most colourful of the two artists’ creations. The joyful arrangements follow one another, on canvas or on wood, to the benefit of two environments that are indeed singular, but common in one way: their constant search for the perfect juxtaposition. ...

For those who don’t know yet, the acronym “C.O.A.” honours a vision we have been clinging to since the opening of the gallery: Créateurs d’Œuvres Atypiques (Creators of Atypical Work). It’s a gamble that we take again and again, one exhibition after another. The next one is no exception to the rule. So mark your calendars! On March 16th, Vinna Bégin and Benoit Blondeau’s duo exhibition starts. ...

The disruptions we experience on a daily basis, both individually and collectively, prompt us to continually redefine our thought patterns. With that in mind, Moe Piuze has built the ideal studio where he can restructure his worries, ideas, and other aspects of his life through the technique of self-hypnosis—the ability to modify, at will, one’s state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep to tap into the unconscious resources of the mind. ...

C.O.A. launches its annual program with the third edition of Out, a critical exhibition about singularity and inclusion. The works of four artists, two of whom are neurodivergent, are brought together. This approach, from an aesthetic, but also societal point of view, is more important than ever in a world where neurodivergence is still perceived as a stigmatizing otherness. Beyond the artistic gesture, Out 2023 proposes a series of human encounters and a privileged opportunity to open up to the beauty of an atypical creation. ...

In collaboration with Eric Nado, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new limited edition entitled “Remington 5,” which will be released on December 1, 2022, at noon, just in time for the holidays. ...

Pieces of scenery, fragments of boréalia, Karine Locatelli illuminates the immense benevolence of nature in her art. With a finely textured and decontextualized visual poetry, mountains, snow piles in shopping centre parking lots, rocks bordering a river are rendered anew. ...

C.O.A participates in the Foire en art actuel de Québec (Quebec Contemporary Art Fair) 

For its eighth edition, the Foire en art actuel de Québec (FAAQ) will hold a booth presenting seven AGAC member galleries from Montreal and Quebec City, in a more traditional deployment. Indeed, as in previous editions, each of the participating galleries will have its own booth to introduce you to their represented artists. C.O.A will be part of the FAAQ and you will be able to discover new works by Valérie Gobeil, Karine Locatelli, Éric Nado, Moe Piuze and Ooloosie Saila. ...

A double solo exhibition splits the gallery into two distinct, yet not contradictory, worlds. When we first encounter the work of Montreal artist Yannick Chayer (Quebec, Canada), we’re confronted with abstract forms that coexist with the figurative in scenes that are both free and pictorial. Chayer is interested in experimental music and his art, similarly, is casual and does not rely on any pre-established narrative. ...

With “Instinctuel,” C.O.A presents an exhibition free of all constraints, where seven local and international artists communicate their desire to reveal their own essence. Through a very basic palette, the exhibition emphasizes the brutality in the treatment of the subject rather than the complexity of the work. A weave of superimpositions, lines, colours and multiple materials share the walls of the gallery, where the artists are presented in turn. ...

Alexandra Levasseur’s plastic practice proposes two dissimilar but not contradictory readings. A multidisciplinary artist, she paints, sculpts, and animates driven by a deep interest in, on the one hand, a scientific approach to the relationship between humankind and nature, and, on the other, the mythological, even mystical interpretation that one can draw from it. The works that make up this exhibition entitled “Tourner autour du soleil” (Circling the Sun) gravitate between these two worlds, one scientific and the other spiritual. ...