Agnes Baillon Art

Nicholas Crombach (BFA, 2012) is an artist working in Kingston Ontario. Crombach has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. His solo exhibition, Behind Elegantly Carved Wooden Doors, was presented at Art Mûr...

This Mixed Media piece titled "Too Many Teardrops Suncatcher" is an original artwork by Roxana Azar made of digital print on acrylic, plastic chain, metal, and glass. The piece measu...

Divyendu Anand - Wisdom Tree Hand Painting and Patina over Metal Skin Granite, Edition of 9 H 44 x W 26.5 x D 18 inches Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism and beauty...

Divyendu Anand - Piscine - Red, 2023 Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base Edition 2 of 5 H 33 x W 24 x D 14 inches Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism an...

Divyendu Anand - Birth of Bauhinia Patina & Enamel Over Bronze Granite, Edition of 3 H 24 x W 16 x D 12 inches, 2024 Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism and beauty, D...

Cyrille André's gentle giant figure in black Polyester resin measures 99.5 x 63 x 61 inches and his dog in cast aluminum measures 43.25 x 46.5 x 21 inche...

Toronto artist Sophie DeFrancesca has always been fascinated by vintage fashion. Pictures of her mother wearing gorgeous frocks from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s served as a connection to...

Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...

American, b. 1945 Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide. Sewel...

This unique mixed media piece is unforgettable. Kratz uses resign and wildflowers on panel to create this 3D effect on a flat surface. This woven knot is composed of various wildflow...

Text by Nancy Webb It’s Saturday night and Karine Payette is in her studio. We meander into a conversation about the dog she used to have and her soft spot for German shepherds, an intensely obedient and loyal breed in a deceivingly wolf-like package. Payette’s most recent series of photographs, sculptures and video work seem to speak directly to this preoccupation with the multifaceted nature of human-animal relationships—the dialogues of control, intimacy, violence and domestication that subtly take place on an interspecies level. Her workspace is part laboratory, part prop closet—a bowl of fur sits not far from her computer. Somehow in this bright, open, chemical-clean scented room, Payette conjures wildness. We are taken to a strange place, the borderlands of interspecies mingling. At one extreme of the animal-human dynamics scale is the stalwart compliance of a professionally trained German shepherd who responds to commands with robotic precision. Here, power is comfortably held by an off-screen voice, animality pacified by a set of linguistic prompts. At the other end of the scale is a sculpture of a human figure clad in red, sharing a languorous kiss with a wolf. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is immediately called to mind, except that here our hooded protagonist seems to have bailed on grandmother’s orders, instead opting for a forest floor make-out with her canine stalker. This taboo mise-en-scène is a brazen inquiry into the boundaries we maintain with our animal counterparts. Its scale and three-dimensionality contribute to a feeling of immersion that the artist has been courting with her work for the past several years. It feels as though you’ve just walked in on something: you are implicated and your discomfort is like an invisible mist that coats these inanimate beings. Elsewhere in Payette’s suite of anthropomorphic works, the demarcation between species grows even fainter. A photographic series depicts the slow encroachment of fur, scales and feathers on human skin—a striking process of contamination facilitated by touch. The fusion of flesh, charcoal cat fur and a pale silky dress...

Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...