Sophie Jodoin Explained
Sophie Jodoin (born 1965) is a Canadian visual artist based in Montreal. Jodoin is known chiefly for her figurative, drawing-based practice in traditional media as well as collage, video, and altered found objects.[1]
Education
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal.[2]
Work
She has worked almost exclusively in black-and-white since 2004, and first showed works integrating drawing and collage in 2009, sourcing images from magazines, the Internet, personal photos and books.[3] In Jodoin's drawing, the lack of objective figures gives people a feeling that there is no narration. One exception that contains didactic intent is "Yesterday and Tomorrow", which consists of a series of drawings.[4] Those pictures showed a young girl wearing a white silk dress walking through a corridor.
Solo exhibitions
- VOLTA NY, New York, NY 2012
- close your eyes, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia 2012
- Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Union Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 2012
- Small Chronicles of Everyday Violence, Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec. Curated by Marie-Claude Landry 2011
- I felt a cleaving in my mind, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec. Curated by Susannah Wesley 2011
- You have to kill a whole to get a little, Oboro, Montréal, Québec 2011[5]
- Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Invited Artist, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario 2010
- The Cherished Ones, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2010
- De peine et de misère, Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 2010
- Nous sommes en manque, National Center for the Arts - French Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario. Invited by director Wajdi Mouawad 2009
- Headgames: hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Battat Contemporary, Montréal, Québec 2009
- Vigils, Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2009
- Small Dramas & Little Nothings, Maison des Arts de Laval, Laval, Québec. Curated by Danielle Lord 2009
- Hoods, helmets & gasmasks, Connexion Gallery, organised by UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, New-Brunswick 2008
- Regiment, McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Québec; travelled to Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C. (2007)
- Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (2007)
- Diary of K.; a journal of drawings (part II), Newzones, Calgary, Alberta 2005
- Diary of K.; a journal of drawings (part I), Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2005
- Drawing Shadows; portraits of my mother, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2004
- Figures Undressing, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2003
- Recent Works, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, Québec 2000
- Architectures, Centre d’exposition des Gouverneurs, Sorel, Québec 1997
- Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Aylmer, Québec 1996
- Galerie 101, Ottawa, Ontario 1994
- Centre Clark, Montréal, Québec 1992
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.straight.com/arts/sophie-jodoins-drawings-are-charged-spectres-trauma accessdate=2013-01-28
- Web site: Two winners, five Concordia finalists for Prix Pierre-Ayot and Prix Louis-Comtois. www.concordia.ca. 2019-03-04.
- http://thelabmagazine.com/2012/03/21/sophie-jodoin/ accessdate=2013-01-28
- Book: Sophie Jodoin. --. 2000-01-01. Galerie de Bellefeuille. 2922173127. Galerie de Bellefeuille. Westmount, Québec. fr, en. 2016-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20160311101527/http://library.ago.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14K7211I7G314.1836&profile=agolib&source=~!sibyl&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!44366~!0&ri=1&aspect=subtab24&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Sophie+Jodoin&index=.AA&uindex=&aspect=subtab24&menu=search&ri=1. 2016-03-11. live.
- Web site: Sophie Jodoin | Magenta Magazine. https://web.archive.org/web/20110402002929/http://www.magentamagazine.com/6/exhibition-reviews/sophie-jodoin. dead. April 2, 2011. April 2, 2011.
