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St. Lawrence Centre, Tonronto, January 1984
Denise Laperrière, whose work will de on display in the Town Hall Theatre Lobby until the 28th of January, was born and raised in Quebec. She attended the Université de Montréal where she received a B.A. in Literature and History of fine Art in 1967. Following ten years of teaching at the Collège André Grasset in Montreal, Ms. Laperrière has devoted her energies exclusively to painting.
Ms. Laperrière creates dynamic images pulsating with so
much energy that they appear to spring out of the canvas. The
oil paintings of Denise Laperrière are derived from her
interest in anthropology, in myths of creation, in history, and
in her own emotional response to the world around her. One of
the most striking characteristics of Ms. Laperrière's paintings
is the highly personal mode of expression she employs, her use
of private symbols and metaphors to racall universal myths and
archetypes. She states that her images "express the life
cycle, the gush of energy, the triumph of life over death."
Denise Laperrière seeks the essential, witch she expresses
in intentionally restricted yet forceful hues, in order to illustrate
the interplay of colour tones. Her themes are at once metaphor,
geometry, and transfiguration - of women, men and animals seen
as a whole, or in the process of evolving from one another.
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by Gallery Jarmain