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Michelle Bellemare has exhibited Nationally and internationally over the past decade. Her work explores how the properties of different materials can embody emotional or physical vulnerability.
Bellemare's sculptural works and installations have been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including a solo survey of her work at the Koffler Gallery, Toronto, in January 2004 and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, in September 2004. Bellemare is a recipient of a Chalmers Fellowship (2003) and was also shortlisted in 2004 for the K.M Hunter Arts Award.
In 2005, her work Tease (shown below) was exhibited in Madrid, Spain, at ARCO, as part of the New Territories exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and Peak Gallery. A Collaborative publication, entitled blindside, produced in by the Koffler Gallery and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery was launched in late 2005, documenting her works from 1997-2004.
Most recently, Bellemare exhibited a new body of work at Peak Gallery, Toronto. This exhibition entitled muffle, explores notions of anxiety and desire emerging from the pressures of contemporary life. Through modifying familiar materials, Bellemare attempts to construct conditions that lend form and voice to the psychological residues of contemporary experience.
Works can be seen at ccca.ca.
