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Martha Street Studio is pleased to welcome Jacinthe Loranger (Montréal) for a three-month long residency as part of the Québec-Manitoba artist-in-residence program. During her time here she will  develop a new series of work that combines screenprinting, ceramics and paper maché. In this work she will create new narratives and mythologies from a variety of cultural references that look at ideas of sexuality, femininity, life, death, normality and strangeness.
“My work offers a luminous, unhinged alternative world where every excess is a blissful celebration.”(Loranger)
She will be giving an a free artist talk at Martha Street Studio on June 22nd at 7pm
Artist Biography
Jacinthe Loranger works and lives in Montreal. She is an interdisciplinary artist who’s work combines print media, sculpture, collage, performance and installation. She has participated in many artist residencies and has exhibited in Canada, the USA and France. In recent years she has presented a number of solo exhibitions, most notably, Haunt-me, Haunt-me. Do it Again. at L’Écart, (Rouyn-Noranda, QC),  I am the one, Orgasmatron at Artist Proof Gallery (Calgary AB), and Neon Knight is a Digital Bitch at Eastern Edge, (St-John’s, NL.) She is presently pursuing an MFA in Print Media at Concordia University in Montreal. She has received several grants from Quebec and Canada Arts Council. Upon entering Concordia University, she was awarded the Graduate Studio Arts Advisory Committee Award in 2013, and she also received the Concordia Merit scholarship from School of Graduate Studies.

Martha Street Studio is pleased to present a new studio edition by Rosalie Favell.
Rosalie Favell is a photo-based artist born in Winnipg, Manitoba who draws inspiration from her family history and Metis (Cree, English) heritage.
“The images from my series, Plain(s) Warrior Artist, depicted this continueing struggle to find my place in the world, only a shift has occured; instead of looking outside for a hero, I become one.”
– Rosalie Favell
 
Edition of 15 archival inkjet prints on fine art photo rag paper.
Image size: 20 x 20 inches (50.8 cx 50.8 cm)
Paper sizeL 24 x 24 inches (60.96 x 60.96 cm)
Price: $2500

Martha Street Studio is pleased to present a new studio edition by renowned artist Sheila Butler. Working with technician Peter Graham, Butler created this edition during a month long residency at the studio.
Title: Floating
Medium: Intaglio
Edition Size: 15
Image Size: 11.75 x 17.75 inches
Paper Size: 14.75 x 22 inches
Price: $800
Bio: Sheila Butler is a multi-media artist primarily known as a painter. She now lives in Toronto. After teaching at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg for sixteen years, Butler moved to London, Ontario where she was a professor of Fine Art at the University of Western Ontario for another fifteen years. She has had numerous national and international exhibitions of her work. Butler has a long history of collaborative exhibitions as well. Her work is included in collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, The University of Toronto and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, among others.

When: September 26th. 3pm
Lessard will present an introduction to his practice and how various projects have lead into the new folio he is creating during his two-week residency at Martha Street Studio.
Denis Lessard lives and works in Montreal. Since 1982, he has presented his performances and visual works in Canada, the United States, France and the Netherlands. He has an art history master’s degree from Université de Montréal (1985). He has also worked as an art critic, translator, guest curator and art history lecturer.  Through his interdisciplinary practice, he has adressed issues about collecting, male identity, spirituality and the relationship between literature, music and the visual arts.  He has participated in a number of residencies since 1987 developing themes of memory, history and communities in relation to the cities and places he explores.
Denis Lessard vit et travaille a Montréal. Depuis 1982, il présente ses performances et ses créations visuelles au Canada, aux États-Unis, en France et aux Pays-Bas. Il détient une maîtrise en histoire de l’art (1985) et un certificat en archivistique (2010) de l’Université de Montréal. Il œuvre également comme critique d’art, traducteur, commissaire invité et enseignant en histoire de l’art. Sa pratique interdisciplinaire a abordé notamment les questions de la collection, de l’identité masculine, de la spiritualité et des rapports entre littérature, musique et arts visuels. Depuis 1987, il a réalisé plusieurs résidences au Canada et aux Pays-Bas, ou il crée des projets reliés à la mémoire, a l’histoire et a la communauté des villes et des lieux qu’il explore.

Winnipeg (solar chimney) by Lisa Stinner-Kun
Edition of 15 archival inkjet prints on Epson Premium Semimatte photo paper
Image size: 25 x 20 in (63.5 x 50.8cm)
paper size: 29 x 24 in (73.66 x 60.96cm)
$1000
Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a MFA in Photography, Lisa Stinner-Kun has shown her photographic work in numerous exhibitions, locally, nationally and internationally. In her work, Stinner-Kun searches for photographic contradictions found within the built environment. Her work has been featured in art publications such as Border Crossings magazine and published in juried collections such as Carte Blanche and Flash Forward.