Marie Rioux
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
the beginning of our correspondence after I was selected for this special edition of LandEscape Art Review .
Yes , from a very early age I attended the École des Beaux Arts for children on Saturday mornings . I then took every visual arts course I could at high school . Later I studied for two years in the visual arts department of a junior college ( the Sainte-Foy CEGEP ). From there I spent nearly a year in the visual arts department of Université Laval , but I stopped before obtaining my degree . The courses didn ’ t meet my needs at the time . There followed various courses , workshops , drawing from observation , an introduction to engraving at the Atelier de Réalisations graphiques , courses on the basics of ceramics at the Atelier de Céramique , on metalworking at the École des métiers d ’ art , an introduction to photography at Centre VU and to Photoshop at Engramme . All these institutions or artist-run centres are in Quebec City . Currently , since September 2016 , I ’ ve begun a short program in graduate studies at the Université de Rimouski ’ s Lévis campus , across the river from Quebec City , in studies of artistic practices .
When I was in junior college , the dominant artistic current was Hard Edge painting . This movement left deep and significant traces on the way I conceive the space of a painting . Moreover , I ’ d say that it enabled and helped me to demystify abstract art . For me the interest of Hard Edge painting , with its clearly marked and well-defined structures , without figurative resonance , lies in its judicious choice of colours which