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Louise Robert is an artist who lives and works in Montréal. Her artworks have been exhibited in Québec since the mid 1970s. Her works can be found in collections such as Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, and the Musée du Québec, Québec City. Robert’s paintings are characterized by large coloured forms, which are contained on perceptually shifting fields, adding to the two-dimensional pictorial relationships through the illusory perception of atmospheric space. The field of the canvas harbours these forms, as well as traces of script-like drawing, and words and phrases suggestive of fragmented narratives. Robert works primarily with her hands, and prefers to use her left hand, even though she is right-handed. She has stated that the quality of discovery is more apparent with the untrained, naive hand. André Martin wrote of these works, "The great tension in these paintings resides in the quest for an unknown, somewhere between a known past, under control, understood, and accepted -- the Self of yesteryear as a different yet peaceful site -- and the uncertain tomorrow, uncomfortable because uncharted, as raw and attractive as a magnet."  |
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