LA VITRINE

PRESENTATION | ARTISTS | PRESS

Atelier Daigneault | Schofield

2126, rue Rachel Est
Montréal, Québec H2H 1P9 stephenmbschofield@gmail.com

In 2003, Michel Daigneault and Stephen Schofield started offering the two store windows of their studio on the rue Rachel to fellow artists to show their work. For periods of over two months, various artists have used the space as an exhibition space, as an installation space and others as a stage for performances. Some have emphasized the mirror effect of two identical windows, whereas others have used to create a narrative between the two windows and yet others have shown a single work that unites the two windows.

Although the general approach to the public is rather discrete and the actual studio space is not open to the public, the work in the windows can be viewed twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. 

Some installations have indexed the change of daylight, for instance, Gisèle Trudel light installation would spring to life as the sun set. Other installations have referenced the original function of windows as a display of commercial goods as in the exhibition by Doug Scholes.

In order to emphasize direct access to the passers-by, the windows bear no signs that indicate their function as a showing space other than the identification of the artist’s name and the title of the work.

Most of the projects have been proposed directly by the artists themselves, others are generated by Daigneault and Schofield although some notable exhibitions have also been organized by independent curators such as Pascale Beaudet, Marie Perrault and more recently Joyce Yahouda. Again, our approach involves minimizing structure and emphasizing fluidity, simplicity and spontaneity.  Or, to read the programme of La Vitrine in a different light, our approach resembles more that of the artist space projects of Claes Oldenburg. Les Levine, N.E. Thing Company than that of a structured artist-run centre of today.


ARTISTS

Alexander, Vikky | 2015/04

Bachmann, Ingrid | 2007

Bauer, Lorna | 2011/09-11

Beaudette, Catherine | 2024/03-04

Billy, Anne | Commissaire Marie Perrault | 2015/03

Blatherwick, David | 2022/12

Bolduc, Catherine | 2022/01

Bouchard, Silvie | 2023/12

Bourgault, Pierre | 2019/05

Bouthillier, Marie-Claude | 2015/02

Buchwaldt, Andreas | 2018/04

Bui, Michelle | 2021/02

Carr-Harris, Ian | 2019/10

Chabot, Stéphanie | 2009/07-09

Claude, Stéphane, Aelab | 2012/02

Côté, Marie | Commissaire Marie Perrault | 2014/05

Cozic | 2004/09-10

Day, Sara | 2018/02

Duroux, Lisa | 2019/01

Galland, Emmanuel | 2022/06

Gougeon, Diane | 2019/12

Haberstitch, Sonia | 2013/11-2014/02

Hall,David | 2023/04-06

Jojovic, Danitza |

Knowles, John | 2011/09-11

Lafortune, Natalie | 2010/01-11

Laframboise, Alain | 2021/09

Laframboise, Marie-Josée |

Lafrance, David | 2021/11

Lamarche, Laurent | Commissaire Pascale Beaudet | 2017/02

Lammerich, Yvonne | 2019/09

Landry, Paméla | 2023/02-2023/04

Lapointe, Lyne | 2023/09-2023/11

Lassere, Ivan | 2018/02

Lau, Yam | 2020/09-11

Lavaillante, Renée | 2018/12

Lefebvre, Chloé | 2008/02

Legaré, Ginette | 2024/05

Leisure Projects, Carruthers, Meredith et Wesley, Susannah | 2013/07

London, Naomi | 2022/09

Mahon, Patrick | 2020/02

Major, Christine | 2020/07

Martin, Danielle | 2019/05

Martin Franco, Helena | 2018/07

Merritt, David | 2020/02

Morelli, Francois | 2014

Morgan, Joey | 2024

Mulvey, Frank | 2022/03-05

Murphy, Serge | 2020/12

Oades, Lorraine | 2008/12-2009/01

Olanick, Natalie | 2014/07-09

Philiberte, Jocelyn | 2024/01

Ramsden, Anne | 2016/01

Robert, Lucie | 2013/05

Scott, Susan G. | 2013/11

Scholes, Doug | 2007/07

Simon, Éric | 2024/07

Sorenson, Oli | 2020/09-11

Stephens, Justin |

Stevenson, Sarah | 2022/09

Szilasi, Andrea | 2020/05

Tomassini, Shanie | Commissaire Marie Perrault | 2016/09

Townsend, Martha | 2010/07

Transmission/ReTransmission | Commissaire Joyce Yahouda | 2021/05

Trudel, Gisèle, Aelab | 2012/02

Turcot, Susan | 2021/07

Waquant, Michèle | 2024/09


PRESS

Susan Turcot, le dessin comme quête nourricière | Fondation Grantham | 2021/11/04

L’amour est dans l’atelier | Le Devoir | 2021/08/14

Transmission d’art en vitrine | La Presse | 2021/06/22

Créer dans la tourmente en 2020 | La Presse | 2021/01/04

Renée Lavaillante | Charbonner à l’aveugle | 17 nov-11 jan | Nov 17-Jan 11 | 2018/11/23

Andreas Buchwaldt | Flat Pack Sans Serif | 20 avr-15 juin | Apr 20-June 15 | 2018/05/28

Surprises pour piétons | Le Devoir | 2023/01/28

Balado | Les coulisses de l’art | par Frédéric Loury, Fondateur et directeur général de Art Souterrain

PROGRAMMING

Upcoming exhibit

2024/11 Joey Morgan

Current exhibit

2024/09 Michèle Waquant La route de Nesles | Text + Images

Pasts exhibits

2024/06 Éric Simon Timbrées, timbrés, timbrez ! | Text + Images

2024/05 Ginette Legaré La Barre des témoins | Text + Images

2024/03 Catherine Beaudette Vie Maritime | Text + Images

2024/01 Jocelyn Philibert Au jardin des possibles | Text + Images

2023/12 Sylvie Bouchard Circularités, (second volet) | Text + Images

2023/11 Susan G. Scott Circularités, (premier volet) | Text + Images

2023/09 Lyne Lapointe La femme enceinte | Text + Images

2023/04 David Hall Sea Lanes | Text + Images
2023/02 Pamela Landry Fixations | Text + Images
2022/12 David Blatherwick
Maximum Sun | Text + Images
2022/09 Naomi London
Woven Pattern Ball, After Shyrl | Text + Images
2022/09 Sarah Stevenson
Stretch, Squash, Cinch | Text + Images
2022/06 Emmanuel Galland
BOOH!PAN! | Text + Images
2022/03-05 Frank Mulvey Chercher à prévoir\Trying to Foresee | Text + Images

2022/01 Catherine Bolduc | Text + Images

2021/11 David Lafrance
Les Appelants

2021/09 Alain Laframboise | Text + Images

2021/07 Susan Turcot | Text + Images

2021/05 Transmission/ReTransmission commissaire Joyce Yahouda | Text + Images

2021/02 Michelle Bui
Les membranes sont sujettes au gonflement | Text + Images

2020/12 Serge Murphy

2020/09-11 Yam Lau & Oli Sorenson Soft Dissent

2020/07 Christine Major | Text + Images

2020/05 Andrea Szilasi

2020/02 Patrick Mahon | Text + Images

2020/02 David Merritt | Text + Images

2019/12 Diane Gougeon | photo: Diane Gougeon | Text + Images

2019/10 Ian Carr-Harris | Text + Images

2019/09 Yvonne Lammerich | Text + Images

2019/05 Pierre Bourgault | Text + Images

2019/05 Danielle Martin robeMain en devenir | Photo : Alain Lefort | Text + Images

2019/01 Lisa Duroux
SHIBARI O’O’ | Text + Images

2018/12 Renée Lavaillante Charbonner à l’aveugle | Text + Images

2018/07 Hélena Martin Franco | Text + Images

2018/04 Andreas Buchwaldt
Flat Pack Sans Serif | Text + Images
2018/02 Sara Day | Text + Images

2018/02 Ivan Lassere | Text + Images

2017/02 Laurent Lamarche | Text + Images

2016/09 Shanie Tomassini | Text + Images

2016/01 Anne Ramsden
Metal Objects | Text + Images

2015/04 Vikky Alexander | Text + Images

2015/03 Anne Billy, Dénommé Jean-Marc | Text + Images

2015/02 Marie Claude Bouthillier | Text + Images

2014/05 Marie Côté | Text + Images

2014/07-09 Natalie Olanick

2014 François Morelli

2013/11-2014/02
Sonia Haberstich

2013/07 Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley | Text + Images

2013/05 Lucie Robert | Text + Images

2012/02 Aelab Gisèle Trudel + Stéphane Claude | Text + Images

2011/09-11 Lorna Bauer & John Knowles DRESS-UN-DRESS & @ Convenience Gallery, Toronto 2012 | Text + Images

2010/01-11 Natalie Lafortune La Vitrine calcaire | photo : Michel Dubreuil | Text + Images

2010/07 Martha Townsend | Text + Images

2009/07-09 Stéphanie Chabot | Text + Images

2008/12-2009/01 Lorraine Oades Push/Pull | Text + Images | Video

2008/02 Chloé Lefebvre | photo : Jean Dubois et Chloé Lefebvre | Text + Images

2007/07 Doug Scholes | Text + Images

2007 Ingrid Bachmann Memo | Text + Images

2004/09-10 Cozic Dans le vent | Text + Images