NYAB Event - "Brooklyn-Montreal" Exhibition

"Brooklyn-Montreal" Exhibition

Causey Contemporary

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The initiative of this project is to create a dialogue and partnership between 16 different exhibition spaces and art institutions in Montreal and Brooklyn. These cross-cultural partnerships will be represented in two series of exhibitions, one taking place in each parent city. The institutions from either city will be teamed in pairs, learning and growing with each other, and hopefully founding long-lasting relationships. Moving from north to south, the resulting events will begin in Montreal in the fall of 2012, and continue in Brooklyn in January and February of 2013. Formulated as a multi-venue exhibition project, this exchange is conceived as a major event, both in terms of its dissemination and its influence in the ongoing and developing artistic relations between Montreal and New York.

Patrick Bérubé received a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts at Université du Québec à Montréal in 2005. As a finalist for the Pierre Ayot prize in 2010 and 2011, his work was recognized on both the national and international level from his participation in numerous exhibitions and major events. His work was particularly notable in the exhibition, “This is not a Casino’’, at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, and at Villa Merkel in Germany. In 2005, he won the juried prize in the context of the third Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec. He also obtained many artist residencies from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec to stay in Barcelona, Spain in 2009, at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris in 2007, and at Buy-Sellf in Bordeaux in 2011. Furthermore, he carried out his very first solo exhibition in New York in October 2012. Finally, Bérubé is a founding member of the collective Pique-Nique and in 2010 he created his first work of integration to architecture.

Melissa Murray is a brooklyn-based artist. Her work has previously appeared in group exhibitions at the Arc Gallery at MOSI Museum in Tampa, Forida, ArtPrize 2011 in Grand Rapids, MI, the Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA, at Fuse Gallery, Headquarters and Chashama in New York, NY, Causey Contemporary, AdHoc Art and 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, NY. Her latest solo exhibition was at Causey Contemporary in Brooklyn. Ms. Murray’s work has also been published and or reviewed in L magazine, The Village Voice, Juxtapoz Magazine, Beautiful Decay Magazine, Art Czar and the NY Arts Magazine. Her drawings were also selected as a showcase winner on Artslant.com in 2012 and as one the finalist for artistswanted.org. A limited-edition series of prints has recently been released by Welcome to Company and she is currently working with Contaminate NYC on two exhibitions in New York City. Additionally, her arist sketchbook is currently part of the 2012 Sketchbook Projects traveling exhibition, which began in Brooklyn and will move to Chicago, IL; Portland, OR; Vancouver, Canada; Los Angeles, CA; Oakland, CA; Lynn, MA; Portland, ME; Toronto, Ontario; Philadelphia, PA; Atlanta, GA; Winter Park, FL; Austin, TX; London, England and Melbourne Australia.