Gabrielle vit à Montréal. Initiée aux émaux dès l’âge de 11 ans, Gabrielle, étudie rigoureusement et passionnément l’art de l’émail sur métaux jusqu’à l’âge de 20 ans. Lors de sa formation en arts plastiques, elle développe un engouement particulier pour l’art byzantin et pour l’Antiquité. Elle termine sa formation et s’installe plusieurs années à Istanbul en Turquie, où elle sera constamment en contact avec les vestiges de Constantinople et de l’Empire romain. De retour à Montréal, désirant créer ses propres objets et espaces, elle complète une formation en design d’intérieur et travaille à titre de designer pour des firmes d’architectures réputées. Gabrielle combine maintenant ses connaissances du design et ses connaissances artistiques puisque depuis plusieurs années elle travaille à temps plein l’art de l’émail sur métaux, l’essence de sa véritable passion et l’expression de son engagement artistique. Ses recherches expérimentales, relatives à son médium d’expression, la conduisent à séjourner occasionnellement dans la Baie de San Francisco en Californie, pour y échanger avec d’autres artistes et pour y explorer différentes techniques d’émaillage et de traitement du métal. Son parcours lui a permis d’accumuler des connaissances techniques, des références notoires et des expériences artistiques et culturelles diversifiées qui lui permettent d’être en constante évolution avec son art.
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Gabrielle lives in Montreal. Initiated in enamel on metal at the age of 11, Gabrielle studied the art of enameling rigorously and passionately until the age of 20. From her subsequent training in fine arts she developed a particular taste for Byzantine art and for the artistic works of antiquity. She finished her studies and relocated herself to Istanbul, Turkey, where for many years she was in constant contact with the vestiges of Constantinople and the Roman Empire. Upon her return to Montreal, in the desire to create her own works and spaces, she completed a program in interior design and worked as a designer for several distinguished architectural firms. Gabrielle combines her knowledge of both design and art, and has now been working for years full-time at enamel on metal, the essence of her true passion and the expression of her artistic engagement. Her research into experimental techniques in her art brings her occasionally to the San Francisco Bay area in California to exchange with other artists and to explore different methods in enameling and the treatment of metal. Her passage has permitted her to accumulate technical knowledge, striking references and diverse artistic and cultural experiences that permit her to be in constant evolution with her art.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EXHIBITIONS
The Last Glass Show- Glass Art Association of Canada (GAAC) November 15-28 2012
OCC Gallery, 990 Queen Street W, Toronto, ON
The Artist Project 2013 st Project 2013– Juried Exhibition — Juried Exhibition February 21-24 2013
Better Living Building
195 Princes Boulevard, Exhibition Place,Toronto, Ontario
Solo Exhibition
“Traces de Feu” “Traces of Fire” September 5 to October 21 2012
Gallery “Espace Pierre-Debain”, Cultural Center of Vieux-Aylmer
Gatineau, Québec, Canada
Beyond Borders experimentation and innovation in enameling ameling September 15 to November 9 2012
11th International Juried Enamel Exhibition sponsored by the
Northern California Enamel Guild
Hosted by the Richmond Art Center
Richmond, Ca, USA
The Artist Project 2012– Juried Exhibition — Juried Exhibition March 2012
Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Instant Gallery” Enamelist Society Biannual Confer nt Gallery” Enamelist Society Biannual Conference ence September 2011
Arrowmont School of Arts And Crafts
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA
“Inspiration” June-August 2011
The Richmond Art Center
Richmond, California, USA
“Music to See””-””- – — – Juried Exhibition — Juried Exhibition April 2011
World premiere multimedia exhibition inspired by Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”
Pollack Hall, McGill University
Montréal, Québec, Canada
The Artist Project 2011– Juried Exhibition — Juried Exhibition March 2011
Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Visiting Artists Series, Winter Exhibition January- February 2011
The Richmond Art Center
Richmond, California, USA
“Transparent Transformation” May 2010
Espace VERRE/Glass Art Association of Canada (GAAC) Conference
L’Agora, CEGEP du Vieux Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Gabrielle S. Castonguay, page 2
“Printemps culturel” (“Cultural Spring”) April 2010
Guy-Descary Cultural Center
Lachine, Québec, Canada
“March Blues” es” – – Juried Exhibition — Juried Exhibition March 2010
Galerie Ouest
Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Canada
“Entre nous” (“Among Us”) February 2010
Trestler House Museum & Gallery
Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec, Canada
“Un Don, Une Œuvre” (“A Donation, An Œuvre”) An Œuvre”) February 2010
Exhibition to benefit Red Cross operations in Haiti.
Galerie Fabienne Rhein
Montréal, Québec, Canada
“Red Alert” – – Juried Exhibition — Juried Exhibition February 2009
Galerie Ouest
Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Canada
CONFERENCE– LECTURE SERIES — January 2011
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Gabrielle S. Castonguay guay
In winter 2011 I had the privilege to give a conference to present my work
as well as my method of enameling at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California.
□ Conception, creation, execution and installation of œuvres d’art: 2005-2012
sculptures and wall pieces. Principal medium: enamel on metal (copper and/or silver).
□ Architectural in free-standing furniture integration of enameled metal oeuvres.
DISTRIBUTION OF WORK – – PUBLIC ART ––
Vaudreuil Catholic High School, Vaudreuil Soulanges. . 1981
Enamel on metal wall mural.
Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec, Canada
École secondaire Vaudreuil, Vaudreuil Soulanges. 1980
Enamel on metal wall mural for the administrative office of a school.
Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec, Canada
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Intensive metal studio study and specialization: Darren Fisher, New York, USA Summer 2012
Enameling workshops: Sarah Perkins, Marcus Synott, Tennessee, USA September 2011
Intensive metal studio study and specialization: d specialization: Edward Lay, California, USA Summer, Winter 2011
Intensive enamel studio study and specialization: Judy Stone, California, USA Summer 2010
DEC (Diploma of College Studies) 2002-2005
Design d’intérieur (Interior Design) n d’intérieur (Interior Design) CÉGEP du Vieux Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
DEC (Diploma of College Studies) 1982-1985
Arts plastiques (Fine Arts) Arts) Collège St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Intensive Training in enameling: Training in enameling: Bernard Séguin-Poirier, Québec, Canada 1976-1982 Gabrielle S. Castonguay, page 3
Richmond Art Center California, USA 2011-2012
Le Coin Artisanal Beaconsfield, Qu aconsfield, Québec, Canada ébec, Canada 2011
Baie d’Urfé, Québec, Canada 2009-2012
The Enamelist Society, Glass Art Association of Canada, Metal Arts Guild of Canada,
The Northern California Enamel Guild
PRESS AND MEDIA COVERAGES:
Newspaper:Le Droit– Ottawa — Ottawa September 2012
Weekend Edition, Saturday, September 15 2012, “Arts et Spectacles” section. et Spectacles” section.
L’émail dans tous ces états
Review of my solo exhibit Traces of Fire by the journalist Valérie Lessard.
Newspaper La Revue NeNe Newspaper La Revue
Gabrielle S. Castonguay et ses traces de feu August 26, 2012
Review of my solo exhibit Traces of Fire by the journalist Patrick Voyer.
Where Ottawa Septembre 2012
Inviting the public and visitors to come and see
my solo exhibition Traces of Fire.
Radio Canada Saturday, September 8 2012
Radio show “Divines Tentations
Gabrielle S. Castonguay “Traces de Feu”
Live interview for my solo exhibit Traces of Fire with Danièle Grenier
Radio Canada Wednesday, September 5 2012
Radio show “Bernier et Cie”
Découvrir l’art de l’émail !
Review of my solo exhibit Traces of Fire by Anne Michaud, Arts and Culture journalist.
AFC–Amazing Canadian Fashion Magazine –Amazing Canadian Fashion Magazine Summer 2012
Gabrielle S Castonguay-
“The master of secret meaning between earth’s glass, metal and fire.”
Daily Planet.com
Featured in the report “The Artist Project hits Toronto”, March 2 2012
(http://www.thedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8180:the-artists-project-hitstoronto&catid=63:video&Itemid=242)
Ornament Magazine – Vol.34 no.4 (July, 2011), Vol.34 no.5 (August, 2011) 2011
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Gabrielle Castongua t Lecture Series: Gabrielle Castonguay y
The Richmond Art Center, January 21, 2011, Richmond, California, USA
MAGazine (the publication of the Metal Arts Guild of Canada) – Vol. 25 no.3 Autumn 2010
Examiner.com (a division of Clarity Media Group) March 12, 2010
“Living in the City of Glass”
(http://www.examiner.com/home-decorating-in-montreal/living-the-city-of-glass)
fire and fusion 