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Lumière VFX is happy to extend its creative environment by offering space to local artists to showcase their work. Selected artists receive a two-month exhibition with a wine-and-cheese showing that is open to the public. All proceeds of art sales go directly to the artist.
If you are interested in showcasing your work at Lumière, please feel free to email your portfolio to our curator at art@lumierevfx.com.
Current Exhibition
- Vince Like
Vince was born in 1978 in a severe snowstorm in Quebec. From this auspicious beginning, he continued growing up until he reached 20 years old. Then, his body stopped growing and he began painting. At this point he was driving long distance trucks all over North America, while at the same time studying Fine Arts at the University of Quebec in Montreal. It turned out that the truck driving lasted seven years and the school, five. In the 2 years intervening, he was simply "chilling out", driving from one bad neighborhood to an even worse neighborhood. Since he had nothing better to do while away, he started to draw people he would meet randomly while on the road and, then back home, paint them.
Vince stopped driving trucks a while ago and got his bachelor degree in Fine Arts. Among many other projects, he illustrated the book of the Quebec author, François Avard, Avard Chronique (2008). His work has been presented in several collectives and solo exhibitions in the last years. His studio is located in Montreal.
Vince still draws people he encounters.
Previous Exhibitions
- Shilin Hora
Shilin Hora was born in Stevensville, Michigan in 1976. She received her BFA in printmaking and sculpture from Grand Valley State University and quickly moved on to establish her voice as an artist creating meticulous natural installations. In 2009, Shilin founded GROW STUDIO, an artist's collaborative organization. As the director she creates projects that encourage artists and community members to team up and discover the presence of nature in the city. She is volunteering at Concordia University's print studio assisting students with their undergraduate art work and works part time as a fundraiser for Tyndale St.Georges Community Centre. Shilin illustrated Patricia Clark`s 2009 chapbook Given The Trees published by Voices from the American Land, Inc. and is developing other book art with writers in Canada and United States. Her art work is housed in private collections, along with university and museum collections. Throughout Canada, United States and England Shilin has exhibited her prints, drawings, paintings and installations.
The most remarkable talent Shilin possesses is her ability to rediscover the character of our natural world and then call us to do the same. Through GROW STUDIO she arranges "Seed Hunts" and "Leaf hunts" and invites the community to come with her to collect natural treasures. She asks us to search under park benches, behind bus stops and in our yard to discover the scenery around us. She then arranges such objects as tree seeds and insect wings in a way that stimulates our curiosity. She has mastered the remarkable skill to give significance to the seemingly insignificant side of nature through her large scale installations.
Shilin approaches all the subjects she encounters with a level of respect and sincerity. After cleaning and sorting each found seed, she carefully threads together a quilt composed of 4,000 plus seeds found in downtown Montreal. The Seed Quilt, en ephemeral work of art, then continues its circular life as it is returned to the soil and planted. Perhaps never before has an artist displayed such an acute ability to capture the playful essence of our natural world of things.
You can visit her websites:
- Revery
 Revery was created as a means and reason for the group to work together. It is a semi- experimental act of collaborating ideas in order to exhibit varying style. ReverysŐ second aim was to visually describe dream like content inasmuch given that if the content of the paintings was not realistic to the natural world then could work within the theme. It would be fare to say that the work in this show should be viewed as a cohesive hole. Viewing the show through this lens we hope to display how individual interpret content differently. We are pleased with our work and hope you enjoy it as well.- Daniel Beaudoin
 Dan is a French Canadian artist living in Montreal, Quebec. He has been creating art since the early 1990s. Major influences include Haring, Picasso, Schiele, Chagall, Dali, Lautrec, cubism and German expressionism. Starting from black and white photos and newspaper cut outs, he investigates the interplay of imagined colours, strength and dynamics of lines. His subjects include boxers, portraits, circus and nudes.
Visit his website: www.danbeaudoin.com
Adam Sperling's "Disintegrations"
 Adam Sperling is interested in how forces such as weathering and time affect man-made materials and structures. His work explores these concepts through photography and collage. The disintegration and ultimate destruction that is a part of everything and everyone is something we generally try to dismiss. However, when we embrace this inevitability and truly examine it, we learn something about ourselves and our environment. We realize that our finite nature actually connects us all.
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