Formless
Maude Corriveau, Kuh Del Rosario, Michael Thompson
January 12 to February 11, 2023
Galerie Nicolas Robert is pleased to present Formless, a three-person exhibition of painting, drawing, and sculpture by Montréal-based Maude Corriveau and Kuh Del Rosario, and Guelph-based Michael Thompson. Although varied in both style and form, the works in this exhibition are united by a common interest in exploring themes of tangibility and transformation. The silken forms of Maude Corriveau’s alluring compositions offer an erotic tactility that fluctuates between the formless and the tangible, still-life and virtual. Del Rosario’s distinctly idiosyncratic sculptures are both ethereal and undeniably physical, appearing to exist in constant flux with the same inevitability as life itself. The soft-focus and semi-abstract images rendered on Thompson's tightly cropped canvases create a disorienting shift in perspective, where the illusion of motion hints towards a passage of time. By placing these seemingly disparate works in conversation, a space opens for viewers to locate their bodies in a relationship to organic and synthetic explorations of material form.
Maude Corriveau lives and works in Montreal. She holds a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). She is the recipient of the Explore and Create Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts (2021) and the prestigious graduate scholarship from the J. Armand Bombardier Foundation (2019). She has exhibited in Canada and the United States, and her work is part of many private and corporate collections, such as Mouvement Desjardins and the Prêt d’oeuvres d’art collection at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ).
Kuh Del Rosario is a Filipino-Canadian artist; born in Manila and raised in Calgary, Alberta. She lives and works in Montreal. Del Rosario is a 2023 MFA Candidate in Sculpture & Ceramics Studio Arts at Concordia University and holds a BFA in Painting from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Kuh Del Rosario has exhibited across Canada in solo and group shows. Her past work includes installation, painting, video, and performance, distilled from her sculptural art practice.
Michael Thompson lives and works in Ontario. He holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and a BFA from Western University. In 2019, he was a resident artist at the Slade School of Fine Art in partnership with the Camden Art Centre in London, England. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Camden Art Centre (London, UK), Jargon Projects (Chicago, USA), and Lalani Jennings Contemporary Art (Guelph, CA). His work is held in multiple public collections including the Bank of Nova Scotia, TD Canada Trust, and Global Affairs Canada.
