Ren Pierre Allain - Galerie de Bellefeuille

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René Pierre Allain
1993
René Pierre Allain est né à Montréal en 1951. Allain n’a
jamais cessé d’explorer de nouvelles techniques lui
permettant de transformer irrévocablement des matériaux
aussi peu malléables et difficiles que l’acier et le plâtre, en de
larges tableaux, riches sur le plan des textures et des
couleurs. Il réinvente ainsi chaque fois l’espace graphique,
conciliant l’abstrait et le non-abstrait, le référentiel et le nonréférentiel. Allain vit et travaille à Brooklyn depuis 1984. Il
a exposé dans plusieurs galeries et musées de Montréal,
Toronto et New York.
Born in Montreal in 1951, Allain is constantly exploring different
and difficult media such as steel and plaster to create large, richly
coloured works with tremendous texture. He regularly re-invents the
spatial relationships of his graphic plane, reconciling the abstract with
the figurative, the implicit with the explicit. Since 1984, he has lived
and worked in Brooklyn and has shown in many important galleries
and museums in Montreal, Toronto and New York.
2005
2004
2003
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996-97
1996
1994
1989
1986
1984
1983
1981
2006
Maîtrise / M.F.A., Hunter College, New York
Baccalauréat en arts visuels / B.A. in Visual
Arts, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Principales expositions individuelles
Selected Solo Exhibitions (*Itinérante / Travelling)
2006
1991
1990
Principales expositions collectives
Selected Group Exhibitions (*Itinérante / Travelling)
Formation
Education
1984-86
1979-82
1992
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
The Knitting Factory, New York
Hunter Gallery, New York
The Core Island Complex, London Regional Art
and Historical Museum, London, Ontario (A&B
Associés)
Transformer Site, Gallery 101, Ottawa (A&B
Associés)
Dépot Central, Saw Gallery, Ottawa (A&B
Associés)
René Pierre Allain: Drawings, Olin Hall Breezeway
Gallery, Whitman College, WA
New Work, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
Tablets, Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago
Constructing Painting, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
Tablets, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
New Work, Winchester Galleries, Victoria, BC
Disjunctures, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
New Steel Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New
York
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal
Stefan Stux Gallery
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
The Steel Paintings: 1991-1996 * University of
Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo; Art Gallery of
Peel, Brampton; Tom Thomson Memorial Art
Gallery, Owen Sound
Steelwork, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York
Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1997
Selections from the LeWitt Collection, Madison Museum
of Contemporary Art
Black and White, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum Tucson, Arizona of
Art,
Armored, curated by René Pierre Allain, Planet
Thailand, Brooklyn, NY
Clear Intentions, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Holiday Paper, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
Samadhi: The Contemplation of Space, curated by
Robert C. Morgan, Chelsea Art Museum, New
York
Three by three, another room, New York
The New Gallery, Houston
Made in Canada, Burke Gallery, State University of
New York (Plattsburgh)
Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Project Room
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
QCNY, Howard Scott Gallery, New York
Re: Place, Planet Thailand, Brooklyn Singular Fissions,
Diefenbunker Museum, Carp Ontario Passion et
tournent, Musée des beaux arts de Sherbrooke,
Sherbrooke, Québec
Abstract, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago Sculpture
Contemporain, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
Curtain I, Conservateur / Curator: James Oliver,
Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn
New York/North York, Art Gallery of North York,
Toronto
Recurrence, Conservateure / Curator: Theresa Chong,
Gallery Korea, New York
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Brooklyn
fresh/fresco, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson,
New York
1996
Dots & Lines, Conservateure / Curator: Theresa
Chong, 8th Floor Gallery, New York
Image/After-Image, Conservateur / Curator: Pau
Campbell, The Work Space, New York
Incestuous, Carter Kustera Installation,
Thread
Waxing Space, New York
The Julian Pretto Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum,
Hartford, Connecticut
1995
Julian’s Show, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York
Down The Garden Path, The Work Space, New York
1994
Surface Matters, M-13 Gallery, New York
Cracks in the Modern - The Anxiety of Industrial
Folklore, Conservateur / Curator: Ihor Holubizky,
Koffler Centre for the Arts, North York, Ontario
Five Abstract Artists, Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery,
New York
1993
Continuing Generations, Annina Nosei Gallery, New
York
Abstraction: Which Way From Here?, Conservateur /
Curator: Jeffrey Spalding, University of Lethbridge
/ Canada Trust Towers, Calgary
Présence, Centre international d'art contemporain
(CIAC), Montréal
Projects, Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York
1992
Geometric Strategies, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York
Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
Painterly Object, S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum,
New York
1991-92 Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford
1991
Constructed Black Paintings, Julian Pretto Gallery,
New York
Allain, Beall, Dean, Gallery Moos, Toronto
Abstract Painting: Process and Materials, Ben Shahn
Gallery, William Patterson College, New Jersey
Invitational, Berland Hall, New York
1990
Selected 1990 Artist Fellowship in Painting Recipients
from the New York Foundation for the Arts, University
Art Gallery, SUNY, Albany, New York
Objective Abstraction, Julian Pretto Gallery, New
York
1989
Aspects of Painting, Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
Materiel Engagements, Milford Gallery, New York
A Selection of Works in Three Dimensions, Julian Pretto
Gallery, New York
War, Peace and Victory, Memorial Arch, Grand
Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
New Works/New Artists, Julian Pretto Gallery, New
York
The Building Show, Minor Injury, Brooklyn, New
York
1986-87 Postmarked New York, The Southern Alberta Art
Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1986
The Building of Architectural Vision*: City Gallery of
New York, New York; Princeton University
School of Architecture, Princeton, New Jersey
1984-86 Présent antérieur, Musée d’art contemporain de
Montréal, Montréal (A&B Associés)
Enseignement et activités connexes
Teaching and Related Activities
1990-…Enseigne au School of Visual Arts / Teaches at the
School of Visual Arts, New York
1980-84 Avec Miguel Berlanga, crée et expose sous le nom
de A & B Associés / In partnership with Miguel
Berlanga, worked and exhibited under the name A
& B Associés
Commissions
1982
Transformer Site, sculpture publique pour la ville
d’Ottawa / public sculpture for the city of
Ottawa (A&B)
Bourses et prix
Grants and Distinctions
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Conseil des arts du Canada / Canada Council, Ottawa
Catalogues
René Pierre Allain: The Steel Paintings 1991-1996, James
Campbell, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, University of
Waterloo, Waterloo, 1996
Image/After Image, Conservateur / Curator: Paul Campbell,
The Workspace, New York, 1996
René Pierre Allain - Abstraction and the Play of Metaphor, J.
Campbell, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto, 1994
Présence, David Clarkson, Centre international d'art
contemporain (CIAC), Montréal, 1993
War, Peace and Victory, brochure / exhibition brochure, Grand
Army Plaza Memorial Arch, Brooklyn, NewYork, 1989
Postmarked New York, Southern Alberta Art Gallery,
Lethbridge, Alberta, 1987
New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey State Museum, New
Jersey, 1986
The Core Island Complex, The London Regional Art Gallery,
1984
Présent antérieur, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,
Montréal, 1984
Holubizky, Ihor, “The Necessity of Impassioned
Arguments”, ETC Montreal, Montréal, Février/February
1992, pp. 50-52
Les Temps, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, 1984
Duncan, Ann, Montreal Gazette, Montreal, February 22, 1992
(compte rendu / review)
Bibliographie sommaire
Selected Bibliography
Telfer, Gary, C Magazine, Fall 1991, pp. 68-69 (compte rendu
/ review)
Julie Sasse, Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, 2005
Gary Michael Dault, review, René Pierre Allain at Drabinsky
Gallery, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, March 26, 2005, Page
R8
Tablets, exhibition brochure, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago.
Text Signals in the Field of Consciousness by John Zinsser, 2004
Manières et matières. La collection du Musée des beaux-arts de
Sherbrooke, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Peter Goddard, review, Homage to the Shield, Toronto Star,
February 15, 2003
Gary Michael Dault, review, René Pierre Allain at Drabinsky
Gallery, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, March 1, 2003
Stoneberger, Jacqueline and Collins, Anthony, “MADE IN
CANADA: Contemporary Art in Montréal”, Teaching
Canada, Center for the Study of Canada, Plattsburgh State
University, Vol 21, 2002 pp. 52-54.
Shottenkirk, Dena, Artforum, October 1991, pp. 129-130
(compte rendu / review)
McDonough, Tom, Art in America, April 2000, p. 160-161
Ebony, David, “David Ebony’s Top Ten”, ArtNet.com,
November, 1999
Bernier, Jean-Jacques, “Aux limites de l’abstraction”, Vie des
arts, Montréal, Printemps 1998, p. 64-66
Berger, Laurel, “In Their Sights”, ARTnews, New York,
March 1997, p. 94
Taylor, Kate, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, August 2, 1991
(compte rendu / review)
Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, November 30, 1990
(compte rendu / review)
Lail, Thomas, “SUNY A Exhibit”, The Times Union, Albany,
October 11, 1990
Heartney, Eleanor, Art in America, New York, September
1990, p. 201 (compte rendu / review)
Smith, Roberta, Weekend Art Review, New York Times, New
York, May 19, 1989
Bodine, Sarah, “State Museum”, New York Times, New York,
Sunday, December 28, 1986
Dexter, Alain, “Transformer Site”, Le Droit, Ottawa, January
11, 1986
McDougal, Ann, “A&B Associés”, Vie des arts, Montréal,
Eté/Summer, 1985
Corn, Alfred, Art in America, New York, September 1996,
pp. 109-110 (compte rendu / review)
Sum, Henry, “Hypothetical Zigurats and Cuneiform
Highlights Glendon Show”, Excalibur, Toronto, November
8, 1984
Ebony, David, “The New York City Top Ten”, WWW,
New York, February 1996
Tourangeau, Jean, “Présent antérieur”, Vanguard, Vancouver,
Summer 1984, pp. 31-32
Bentley Mays, John, “The Road to Contemplative Fare”, The
Globe and Mail, Toronto, November 19, 1994
Rans, Goldie, “Core Island”, C Magazine, Summer 1984, pp.
48-49
Wilk, Deborah, The New Art Examiner, April 1994, p. 41
(compte rendu / review)
Marcus, Angela, “A&B Associés, public sculpture”, Vanguard,
Vancouver, April 1984
Holg, Garrett, ARTnews, New York, February, 1994, pp.
146-147 (compte rendu / review)
Lepage, Jocelyne, “A la recherche du temps perdu”, La Presse,
Montréal, 31 avril 1984
Bentley Mays, John, “Strong Heavy Works Slow the Viewer
Down”, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, May 5, 1993
Reany, James, “Artists ask what traces we'll leave behind”,
London Free Press, April 17, 1984
Sabbath, Lawrence, “The multiple ways artists record time
and memory”, The Gazette, Montreal, April 7, 1984
Asselin, Olivier, “A&B Associés: une archéologie de la
perception”, Le Droit, Ottawa, 3 Juin 1983
A&B Associés, “Preliminary Findings”, Arts Canada,
November 1982, pp. 49-52 (artists' text)
Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
AT&T
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
Champion Papers
Conseil des arts du Canada / Canada Council Art Bank,
Ottawa
Gowling Strathy & Henderson, Toronto
London Life/The Prudential
London Regional Art and Historical Museum, Ontario
Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada / National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto
Progressive Corporation
Prudential
Royal Bank
Sun Life
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound
Tory, Tory, Deslaurier & Binnington
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Winston & Strawn, Chicago