Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Canada Council for the Arts
Yann Pocreau
Yann Pocreau’s research has been focused on the narrative contributions suggested by light when it is staged in specific places. In his most recent projects, he puts forward traces of light and it’s presence as a subject. Though he works mostly with photography, Pocreau has experimented with other media, such as installation, animation, and sculpture, as he developed a series of interventions and works around artificial light, its materiality and its essential contribution to the artist’s photographic thought.
Yann Pocreau has exhibited work at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal; Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France; and Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, among others.
Yann Pocreau, Impermanence 1, 2017, digital proofs and photograms, 20 × 33 × 2 in. (50.8 × 83.82 × 5.08 cm).
Yann Pocreau, Answer to Painting 1, 2 and 3, 2017-18, digital proofs and photograms, 52 x 42 x 3 in. each.
Yann Pocreau, Archeology, 2017, bronze and steel, 111 × 92 × 110 in. (281.94 × 233.68 × 279.4 cm).
Yann Pocreau, The Light / The Time, 2016, 772 light bulbs found in a hospital and a controller system, dimensions variable.
Yann Pocreau, Catherdral, 2013, blue back paper, light system, and intervention, 152 × 552 in. (386.08 × 1402.08 cm).
Past Resident2018: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Jonas St. Michael
Jonas St. Michael’s photographic practice examines the nature of representation and narrativity through image production. More recently, his practice has shifted to making photographic and video works that are conspicuously constructed with the aim of creating an ostensible reality.
Jonas St. Michael was born in Montreal and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has exhibited works at MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; and OK Harris Works of Art, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2018
November 9–November 10, 2018
Jonas St. Michael, On Theatre Road, 2017, video still, dimensions variable.
Jonas St. Michael, On Theatre Road, 2017, video still, dimension variable.
Jonas St. Michael, On Theatre Road, 2017, video still, dimension variable.
Jonas St. Michael, On Theatre Road (Vawdrey), 2016, archival inkjet print (framed), 47 × 60 × 31/4 in. (119.38 × 152.4 × 8.25 cm).
Jonas St. Michael, The Storyteller, 2016, archival inkjet print (framed), 47 × 60 × 31/4 in. (119.38 × 152.4 × 8.25 cm).
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2018: Wallace Arts Trust
Andy Leleisi’uao
“Andy Leleisi’uao’s art is about people and how they get on together as lovers, as families, as insiders and outsiders. As immigrants. News can be good and bad and it must be lived with… He shows how some lives are lived way over the line while also attempting to maintain and affirm love. Inconsistencies are included because opposites always co-exist.” Text by Ron Brownson, Senior Curator New Zealand and Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki.
Andy Leleisi’uao has exhibited work at Bergman Gallery, New York; National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan; and Bridge Guard, Slovakia, among others.
Andy Leleisi’uao, Harmonic People, 2017, arcylic on canvas, 120 × 80 in. (304.8 × 203.2 cm).
Andy Leleisi’uao, An Unlovely Sorry (1 of 13), 2017, mixed media, 8 × 4 in. (20.32 × 10.16 cm).
Andy Leleisi’uao, UFO Islands (1 of 3), 2017, acrylic on canvas, 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm).
Andy Leleisi’uao, Untitled, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm).
Andy Leleisi’uao, Samoa mo Samoa, 2017, mixed media, 78 × 1378 in. (198.12 × 3500.12 cm).
