Paul Hardy
Artist in residency
- Autorésidence
This residency is part of the 2023-2024 call for proposals, and is carried out remotely, as an autoresidency.
Homeroom
Guided by an associative logic, paintings and drawings are made and unmade as they engage with various historical genres and concerns. Over extended periods, they develop, change, inform and rearrange themselves as themes, narratives, and complementary qualities arise. A sensual yet pathos-laden charge is felt as screens and palimpsests recur, questioning how we look, how perception is shaped, and how meaning is made and lost.
As an artist, parent, and educator, my mind continuously questions how an environment and artistic practice may promote intellectual, creative, and spiritual development among individuals of all ages, specifically young children. With this residency, I hope to produce a series of new collaborative drawings with my family and to conceive and organize an exhibition and experiential environment that speaks to, bridges, and embodies these various concerns: an exhibition and site for play, learning, collaboration, and contemplation.
Paul Hardy is an artist and educator based in Montreal / Tiohtiá:ke. Ambiguous and abstract, his paintings and drawings are characterized by relentless material explorations and constant searching. Together, they map out several diverging historical, personal, and painterly references into a unique vision that investigates the nature of creative processes, the act of painting, and notions of selfhood.
He received his MFA from Concordia University, is represented by Gallery Christian Lambert and teaches Painting and Drawing at Concordia. Notable and recent solo exhibitions include Third at Bellemare Lambert, Study for Ways to Live at Centre Clark, and The Waves at Parisian Laundry. He was a finalist in the RBC painting competition, participated in artist residencies in Canada and abroad.
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