In partnership with BIECTR, Atelier-Galerie A.Piroir (AGAP) has the honour of welcoming Quebec artist Nancy Lambert for an artist residency and solo exhibition.
Selected among the winners of the Grand Prix de la Biennale, the Prix Banque Nationale, the Prix Télé-Québec and the recipients of honorable mentions, Ms. Lambert is invited to present an individual exhibition. As a follow-up to an artist residency which will begin on April 25, 2014, this exhibition will allow the Montreal public to discover a more complete corpus of the artist while offering an extent of the influence of the BIECTR.
This artist inspires us with her current engraving practice, which is characterized, among other things, by the integration of digital photographic images with traditional etching techniques. AGAP, always looking for renewal in the art of printmaking, is very pleased to offer this residency/exhibition to Ms. Nancy Lambert and to help in the development of creation and the influence of art. contemporary print.
PROJECT: “life IS a dream”
I am always looking for little things that normally go unnoticed or that are hidden, invisible or unknown. I collect, examine, organize. I play with the appearances that present themselves to me and my pleasure is to update them and, if the opportunity arises, to tell their stories. Often, then, my work includes the lyrics as text, as poem or as title.
My current engraving practice, which is characterized, among other things, by the integration of the digital photographic image with traditional etching techniques, allows me to translate a little the sensation of being immersed in a world in motion. I feel confronted by its immense wealth and also by its elusiveness. The possibility of making multiple observations of the same subject gives me the impression of being able to better participate in the reality of this thing. Success is always momentary and very partial. Without doubt it is the impossibility of accounting for my experience of the world which is the motivation which keeps me on the path. So, it’s appearances that keep me in this process of trial and error and the limited means of paper, plates, varnishes and inks ground me.
The sequel “Social Media: Out of the Box”, of which seven (7) engravings were exhibited at the Biennal Internationale de l'Estampe Contemporain de Trois-Rivières 2013, recounts multiple facets of an interface between the work and its audience. . For the art aficionado, it lends itself well to humorous reading.
The series of etchings that I want to create during the Atelier-Galerie Alain Piroir residency in 2014 will be the continuation of a theme that I first approached in 1964. At the time, it was two young boys with their feet in the water to look for clams which caught my attention and since then, the subject of characters at the beach took the form of a set of sketches which I was never able to complete. I title the following “Life is a dream” because it seems to me that in the dichotomy “consciousness – unconsciousness” it is rather the unconsciousness which leads our lives and this series of images could give me the opportunity to work , in a playful way, the contemporary mythical character.
BIOGRAPHY
Nancy Lambert studied engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Albert Dumouchel and perfected different techniques in the studio of Yves Gaucher at Sir George Williams University. Subsequently, she worked in Pierre Ayot's workshop at GRAFF. She holds a Masters in Arts Education and a Doctorate in Philosophy from Concordia University. Now retired from the University of Montreal, where she worked for thirty years as a trainer of art masters, she pursues her interest in engraving by getting involved in projects and exhibitions locally and abroad.
My practice of engraving allows me to translate a little the sensation of being immersed in a changing world which confronts me with its immense richness and also its elusiveness. It is, then, appearances that keep me in this process of trial and error and the limited means of paper, plates, varnishes and inks that ground me.
