Jason Cantoro

I live and I work in Montreal. I was part of exhibitions in Canada, France and the United States.  I co-founded Sérigraphie Cinqunquatre in 2004. It is a silkscreen studio and a place for creative exploration. Full time studio-artist and illustrator, i sometimes work with Montreal music groups and collaborate with designers. I received a grant from the Arts Council of Quebec in 2008 to create large pieces displayed in urban areas. I work to combine my drawings, pictures, patterns and old iconic imagery through screen printing. The particularity of my work comes in the fact that i use a reproduction technique in order to make unique pieces. I work with multiple screens in order to create compositions while printing (instead of creating them on the computer). The study of the characteristics of silkscreen as well as the strengths and limitations of the medium is the engine of my exploration. I work mostly on addition and subtraction of images by controlling the opacity of the layers. The esthetic of my work is caracterized by the transparencies and nuances created by multi-layering.  I see the work on images as a dynamic narrative world that evolves in time thru personal experiences.

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Alice Jarry

Born in 1980, Alice Jarry lives and works in Montreal. She graduated from Concordia University where she obtained a Major in Design Art and a Minor in Digital Image and Sound. Alice Jarry first began exploring visual arts through multimedia. Interested in the relationships and contradictions existing between the digital world and analog processes, she became interested in the modular aspect of silk-screen printing, which would become a key technique in her work. In 2003, she co-founded Cinqunquatre, through which she designed custom projects for various clients like fashion and interiors designers as well as music bands. Some of her recent commissioned projects include a line of custom wallpapers for the Mildred’s Temple Kitchen restaurant in Toronto, a site specific mural created along with studio partner Jason Cantoro for Chef Zak Pellacio’s The Fatty Crab restaurant in New York and a serie of pieces for Alfa Romeo art collection in Milan celebrating the brand’s 100th anniversary. At the same time, she’s working on many silk-screen printing projects of her own, allowing her to refine her technique and artistic interrogations on space and imaginary territory. Since 2005, her work has been seen in over tirthy events and exhibitions in Canada, Europe and the United States. She is represented in New York by the Christina Ray gallery and in Toronto by the Art Interiors Gallery.

My work consists of silk-screened prints on wood and paper through which I integrate various mediums: drawing, painting, digital art, linocut, engraving, photography and found images. Just as there are many possible ways of looking at a situation, wood and paper are subject to countless layerings and reconstructions. In the end, there is no edition – each print being unique and produced in different formats and materials. Through my work, I question the interchangeable aspect of image, the relationship between the subject and his physical, immediate environment: modularity, sequences, repetitions, inversions, appearances, disappearances, repeated motifs and reorganisation thus allow me to interpret my relationship to space, to sample it and to re-arrange it constantly. I like to take images out of their original context, breathing new narratives into it – for me, their history and setting don’t belong to the past so much as they are forged through layering. By showing everyday objects, urban furniture, fibre motifs, and by revisiting architectural elements, I interpret this environment in a real or metaphorical way. I am fascinated by the blurred and often imaginary frontier between place and non-place. My aim is to find the space left to a vernacular, domestic or personal landscape in a more public and global context.

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