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Danielle Lanteigne

DANIELLE LANTEIGNE

The painter Danielle Lanteigne likes to tell about the direct contact with plastic creation. Already a visionary and intuitive young person, she was only around ten years when she declared to her sister she knew about the instinctual use of tubes of oil which her sister had received as a present. From this moment, she realized the scale of the universe which she wished to paint. After studies in plastic arts at the University Concordia of Montreal, and more than a decade of constant pictorial research, her work was subsidized with the Grand Prix of the Council of the Culture of the Laurentian in 1992. She perfected this rigour of execution, which become characteristic in her work, under the aegis of Françoise Sullivan whose influence still shows itself in her drawings.

All the wealth of her current work is based on a knowledge and a mastering of the pictorial technique. The strength acquired in the division of the space, the depiction of colored masses and the search for textures is not foreign to the quality of the final visual set. Danielle Lanteigne tries hard to keep up high criteria of execution and invites us subtly, often comically, to perceive anecdotes taken from our everyday lives. The continual fight between the sets of balance of the forms and the colors rest nevertheless in what sees itself at once when we look at her recent still lives. She enjoys breaking the perspective of everyday objects. She consciously blurs our tracks of perception by painting a rectangular lemon, or sometimes a square apple which looks like a pennant, or grapes enlarged in right angles. Following the example of several painters of the new representation, she deforms to re-form better and makes vibrate lines.

For her, to paint and to draw are necessities, privileged moments when she agrees to remain in charge of the balance.       
~ Marie-France Lamoureux, " The Art in the Feminine ", Revised Magazine of Art (Summer, 1996)

DANIELLE LANTEIGNE

Born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1959. Presently living near Ste-Adèle.

EDUCATION

1995-1996
  Leçons privées avec Lili Richard

1986
  Université Concordia, Montréal

1985
  Cégep Saint-Jérôme

AWARDS

1992
  Oeuvre primée pour le Grand Prix, Conseil de la Culture des Laurentides

1989
  Grand Prix, Les Ateliers Rolland-Proulx, Montréal

ACTIVITIES

1993
  Conférences dans les écoles, Saint-Antoine

1991-1992
  Directrice des arts, bibliothèque municipales, Sélectionnée par le "COBREN", Montréal

1991
  Conception et réalisation d'un décor de théâtre, Théâtre de la Fabrique, Sainte-Sophie

1990, '92, '94
  Directrice des arts,  Centre des femmes du Plateau Mont-Royal, Montréal

1989
  Directrice des arts, Foufounes électriques, Montréal

1985
  Conception et réalisation d'une murale, Cégep Saint-Jérôme

EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES

2005
  Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montréal

2004
  Roberts Gallery, Toronto
  Masters Gallery, Calgary

2003
  Galerie L'Autre Equivoque, Ottawa
  Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montréal
  Galerie St. Laurent-Hill, Gallery, Ottawa

2002
  Roberts Gallery, Toronto

2001
  Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montréal

2000
  Roberts Gallery, Toronto
  Galerie d'art Michel Bigué, St. Sauveur

1999
  Galerie St. Laurent-Hill, Gallery, Ottawa
  Galerie Yves Laroche, Montréal
  Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montréal

1997
  Galerie L'Autre Equivoque, Ottawa
  Galerie St. Laurent-Hill, Gallery, Ottawa

1994
  Galerie d'art Ile-des-Moulins, Vieux-Terrebonne

1993
  Galerie d'art de Bougainville, Montréal

1992
  Galerie d'art de Bougainville, Montréal
  Maison Lachaîne, Sainte-Thérèse

1989
  Café Barb-Y, Saint-Jérôme

1988
  Café Barb-Y, Saint-Jérôme

EXPOSITIONS DE GROUPE

2005
  Galerie l'Harmattan, Baie-Saint-Paul

2004
  Galerie Lydia Monaro, Montréal
  Galerie l'Harmattan (2 Personnes), Baie-Saint-Paul

1998
  Roberts Gallery (3 Personnes), Toronto

1994
  La collection Loto-Québec, Val-David

1993
  Galerie d'art de Bougainville, Montréal

1992
  Centre d'Exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme

1990
  Centre d'Exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme

1989
  Vieux Port, Montréal
  Square du Tertre, Rolland-Proulx Studio, Montréal

1986
  Théâtre du divertissement, Saint-Sauveur
  Galerie d'art Mont-Laurier

COLLECTIONS

Le Musée du Quebec
Polar Capital
Davis & Henderson
Banque Royal du Canada