VIVIANE CASE-FOX - Click here for PDF
There are several manners to contemplate a work.
A simple look can be enough for carrying a judgment: we like it or we don't, without anything else. In other situations, the work seems to come to life, it calls us. A simple glance is not enough. A inexhaustible questions seize our thoughts: why use this color palette? Why a line so wide and so present? Why this raw and intense spatter? Why is there left a part of the painting not covered in paint? We meet ourselves, suddenly confronted with the imaginary reality of the artist. We penetrate into her soul. The artist speaks to us, but what does she want to communicate?
Viviane Case-Fox's works are imprinted with this almost provocative strength which obliges the glance to scrutinize beyond the object. The superimposed oil provokes rich transparencies driving our eye towards a second-class dimension. The color, the main subject approached on this work, omnipresent in the work of Case-Fox, transports us in a world of flavors, in a universe of contrasts where the spontaneity of the composition is transformed into allegory; where the stubbornness of the knocks of spatulas and brushes becomes a comfortable balance to the eye; where the doggedness of the artist wants to communicate itself becomes a work overflowing with love and passion.
I've been struck by the lightning of Viviane Case-Fox's works' for several years. Among them, one picture particularly touched me. We find two characters there; unknown people, with knowledgeable eyes, they make me recall members of family, friends and other personalities in the eyes of the others. For me, they became two accomplices stemming from the Magnificent World of Case-Fox. Even today, every day, they manage to make me steal a glance, a smile or? Another question!
Viviane Case-Fox,
A vibrating, energetic and fascinated woman.
An available, generous and engaged mother.
An artist of heart and colors.
EDUCATION
1998
Centre Saïdye Bronfman
1993
Centre des arts visuels, Westmount
1982
Ottawa School of Art
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
June 2007
«RENDEZ-VOUS» Galerie MX, Montreal, QC, Canada
March 2006
«Strawberries-Champagne», Las Olas Fine Arts, Florida, USA.
Printemps 2005
10 ème anniversaire Galerie Saint-Dizier
2003
Artful Evening in Support of Science, Las Olas Fine Arts, Florida, U.S.A.
2001
Flora Canada
'97-'99, '05
Les Femmeuses, Pratt&Whitney, Montreal
1998
Perspectives, Pratt&Whitney, Toronto
1994
Multi-Focus Fine Arts exhibition, Plattsburg, New-York
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
Janvier 2007
«Case in Colour» Las Olas Fine Arts Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FLA, USA.
Novembre 2006
«Case in Colour» Thompson-Landry Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Octobre 2006
«Case in Colour» Galerie MX, Montreal, Canada.
Mai 2002
Galerie Saint-Dizier, Montreal, QC
PUBLICATIONS
BOUCHARD, Jean-Baptiste et Élise TREMBLAY, Galerie d'art Iris (Quand on aime, on a toujours vingt ans), Baie-Saint-Paul, Édition Gestion Koppa Ltée, 2007, p.62-63
BEAUCHAMP, Benoit, Case in Colour, Case-Fox, Montréal, Édition Mensi&Rioux, 2006. 56p.
BERNIER, Robert, La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960, Montréal, Les Éditions de l'Homme, 2002, p.364-365
MOREAU, Odette, Magazin'art Répertoire biennal des artistes canadiens 2000-2001, Montréal, Éditart International Limitée, 2000-2001, p.175
ARTICLES
FOX, Juliana, «Case in Color», Le monde juridique, Volume 16, numéro 6, 2006 p.22-23
BERNIER, Robert, «Sure Things», Revue Parcours, Spring 2002, vol.8, no.1 p.59
SCHWARTZ, Susan, «Ex-model still drawing looks», The Gazette «Arts & Life», Section F,
May 21, 2002, p.F1-F3
BERNIER, Robert, «Coups sûrs», Revue Parcours, printemps 2002, vol.8, no.1 p53-5
RADFORD, Kathy, «Fringales d'art abstrait», Magazin'Art, 12e année, no.1, aut. 1999, p.72-74
RADFORD, Kathy, «Driven to Abstraction», Magazin'Art, 12th year, no.1, Fall 1999, p.112-114
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
The Honorable Brian Mulroney
The Honorable Jacques Olivier
M. Pierre Brosseau
Mme. Élisabeth Nadeau
CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Rogers AT&T
Groupe Columbia
Normandin, Beaudry, actuaries
Olivier Ford
Pratt & Whitney
Schwob Pharmaceutical, Switzerland
Flora Canada
Strataide
Renaud, Fortier, Simard et Ass.
Thibault, Messier, Savard et Associés Inc.
