Jeanie Riddle (artist)

Jeanie Riddle (born 1969 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Montreal-based artist. Her practice is grounded as a painting/object/installation hybrid. She is represented by Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran. She was the founding director of Parisian Laundry (2005-17). Her work has been shown in NYC, Los Angeles, Berlin, Montreal, San Francisco, Toronto and Calgary.

Life and education

Riddle obtained her MFA at Concordia University (2005) and was the recipient of the inaugural Yves Gaucher Award. Since then, she has enjoyed numerous residencies, including: Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha. Her academic experience includes curating for the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (Concordia University), Lecturing as an artist at Concordia University, Mentoring and teaching. Riddle has also written catalogues for artists Janet Werner, Jennifer Lefort and Valérie Blass. Riddle is also a contributing writer for Next Level Magazine, London. Riddle also acts as an art consultant for collections such as the Aldo Group, The Dynamite Group and The Tedeschi Collection.

Work

Jeanie Riddle has a background in painting. Riddle's tendency is towards minimalist abstraction; pursuing the objective of exhausting the potential in minimalist forms.[1] Architecture also has a primary importance in her artistic concerns. Since 2002, Riddle has been developing a sculptural installation practice, which has enabled her to explore her interest in spaces that women are usually left to reflect upon. Through her installation practice Riddle seeks to negate the readability of object categories. She states: "It is in the process of assembling, and of making, that I arrive at a formal composition. Trained as a painter, I was always interested in the way everything comes together through the formal compositional gesture. I am now doing this with objects instead of painting."[2] The artist creates installations in which she negotiates and reorganizes architectural space into an abstracted site by using domestic or ordinary materials to reconstitute a space.

Exhibition

Solo
  • Open Letter to The Women, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, 2018
  • Single Family Home for Sale, TAP Art Space, 2018
  • Jeanie Riddle, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, 2010
  • California, CIRCA, Montreal, 2009
  • Black Paintings, Galerie Thérèse Dion, Montreal, 2007
  • Everything Painted White With Color, YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto (publication), 2006
  • Floating Floors or Maybe Just a Pile of Love, Optica, Montreal, 2006
  • Outside BlissCPD, The New Gallery, Calgary, 2005
  • One Floor & One Model. Parisian Laundry, Montreal, 2005
  • The Systematic Arrangement of Pretty and Other Accumulations, Centre des Arts Actuel SKOL, Montreal, 2004

Group
  • Gestures of Comfort, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, 2019
  • Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting, Curated by Bruce Grenville and David Mac Millan (Catalogue), Vancouver Art Gallery, 2017
  • RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Finalist Exhibition, Touring: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Montréal, QC; The Rooms, St. John's NL, Museum London, London ON, Power Plant, Toronto ON, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; Art Galeery of Alberta, Edmonton AB; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, 2008.
  • Beyond Feminism, women artists working in female iconography, Parisian Laundry, Montreal (catalogue), 2006.
  • Garage/Pretty Garage, Alley Jaunt, Toronto, 2005.
  • Paint! Bourget Gallery, Montreal, 2004.
  • Forced Air, Montréal, Canada, 2004.
  • 99 for 99, invited artist, Observatoire 4, Montreal, 2004.

Notes
  1. http://www.canadianart.ca/art/reviews/2009/09/01/jeanie-riddle/ Jeanie Riddle CENTRE D'EXPOSITION CIRCA
  2. John K. Grande. "Jeanie Riddle: Everything Painted with Color" In Vie des Arts May 2005, no. 203, p. 86.
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