Luc Bernard
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Biography
Encaustic painting is an ancient medium in which pigment is applied in layers of melted wax. It can be a floating veil, gauzy and satin smooth, or, it can be something infinitely more primal, ropey as a lava flow — just as it is in my landscape images.
I create with a mantle of encaustic so thick that it takes on the quality of sculpture, as if the landscapes have only just erupted, half molten from the earth’s core and are even now solidifying in thick, swirling eddies. You feel tectonic forces at work, in these corroded landscapes of iodine and angry orange — forest vistas abraded to the point of erasure, glowering with pin pricks of colour where some older, hotter intention shows through; or clouds of ash and steam and showers of sparks against vermilion skies, like a glimpse into Vulcan’s forge.
Even the more settled landscapes — a view of dusk-dark trees along a river’s back water, for instance, or, an estuary reaching to a line of barrier islands and the distant sea beyond — writhe beneath a quilted blanket of wax. In my encaustics, the physical act of painting may be finished, but the recorded movement of arm and brush hovers, as if still ongoing. Skies well up and pool, like the great arcs of liquid that they are; water surfaces scud beneath unseen breezes; and veils of texture pour down with a liveliness that pigment alone, with its opaque nature cannot duplicate.
With my painting I try to say something about the ephemeral, capturing a moment of observation. What fascinates me most about nature is that it is never static, and that any single instant, well described, can embody so many human emotions. And that every observed moment is trembling on the cusp of becoming something else.
EDUCATION
Royal Military College of Kingston, Commerce Degree
Ontario College of Art and Design – Sculpting and Encaustic
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Heather James Fine Art, Palm Springs
2015 Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Hinge Parallel, Los Angeles
2013 Keystone Studios, Los Angeles
2009 ESCC Parker Studios, Vancouver
2007 Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON
DUAL EXHIBITIONS
2009 Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver
2008 Wallace Galleries, Calgary
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Wallace Galleries, Calgary
2014 Heather James Fine Art, Jacskon Hole
Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert
2013 Wallace Galleries, Calgary
2012 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert
2011 Palm Springs Art Museum
Wallace Galleries, Calgary
Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton
2009 Summer Love, Elliot Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
2008 View Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
2007 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007 Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2007 Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
2006 Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON
COLLECTIONS
The Comweb Group, Toronto
Entertainment Partners, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Copenhagen, Paris, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Portland
FirstEnergy, Calgary
Entertainment Partners, Los Angeles
numerous private collections in: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, Paris, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles. Palm Springs, and Portland.
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Wall Street Journal
2013 Desert OutLook
2012 Colliding Worlds; Webcast Interview
2009 Vancouver Magazine; The Price of Fame; Up-and-comers
2008 Style At Home
2008 Vancouver Magazine; Artists that should be on your radar
2007 Art Avenue November; Front cover illustration
AWARDS
2007 Federation of Canadian Artists Grand Prize Award
2007 Toronto International Art Fair
REPRESENTATION
Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON
Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Wallace Galleries, Calgary, AB
Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC
View Art Gallery, Victoria, BC
FAIRS
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2015
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2013
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2013
Toronto International Art Fair 2007
Artist
Price range: $450-$2850
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