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Michèle Lavoie is a sculptor and painter. She is originally from Rimouski, lived and worked in Montreal, and returned to live in the Bas-St-Laurent region in 2022. She was a teacher and head of the stone and wood sculpture department at the Saidye Bronfman Center’s School of Fine Arts from 1988 until its closure in 2007. In 1999, she obtained a master’s degree in visual arts from UQAM, where she was also a lecturer. She taught sculpture at her own studio from 2007 to 2022. Over the years, she has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Montreal and the surrounding regions, as well as in the United States and France. She was a member of the group Artistes à la Bastille in Paris. Her work can be found in both public and private collections.

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Stone sculpture allows me to express the poetry of rhythms, shapes and movements that I find in flora. From grain, to a blade of grass, to trees and the forest, I try to convey the delicacy and beauty of the most unique forms of life. I frequently incorporate elements extracted from vegetation into my sculptures made of pure and sensual lines, sometimes with repetitions of forms found in nature.

I use different mediums that allow me to draw upon the various nuances of beauty and fragility of our ecosystems.

My work is a call. A soft, silent call, that is a subtle expression of the quiver felt as a lone, introspective soul roams through the grand, majestic Nordic spaces with a growing anxiety in the face of its possible destruction.

SYMPOSIUMS
2017 Urbanité, Parc des Francs Bourgeois, Boisbriand
2015 Marcheur d’Étoiles, Lac Mégantic
1997 Schola Sculptura ’97, Wood carving symposium, Old port of Montreal, in collaboration with the Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Sculpture displayed at Côte des Neiges Funeral Center

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 Parcours, Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartiervillle, Montreal (Juried)
1998 Iter, le Parcours, Galerie Espace Trois, Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal (Juried)
1996 Requiem, Musée de la ville de Lachine, Québec (Juried)
1990 Mon monde Gluglick, Maison du Brasseur, Lachine
1989 Martel, Cisel, Rituel, Galerie Charbonneau Giraud, Montreal (Juried)

DUO EXHIBITIONS
2002 Caryatides, Galerie d’art Renée Blain. Longueuil, Brossard (Juried)
1992 Golems, Maison du Québec à St-Malo, France (Juried)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 La pierre et moi, MUMAQ, (Musée des métiers d’arts du Québec), St-Laurent
2021 Jardin Moore, Mascouche (Juried)
2018 Galerie Rod, St-Sauveur (Juried)
2013 Vingts ans et des poussières, Pavillon Jordi-Bonet, ASPM, Mont St-Hilaire
1991 Artistes à la Bastille et ses invités, Paris, France

Note that this is only a partial list.