aNNie Briard
aNNie Briard is a Montreal-based artist with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Concordia University. She produces work in a multitude of media including painting, performance, textiles, video, film animation and interactive technologies. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Les Fleurs du Mal art magazine and has also served as contributing Arts Editor for The Concordian newspaper. When she is not working in the studio, aNNie combines her writing and organisational experience to promote the art scene by directing communications for artist-run centres and festivals, and enjoys organising community art events.
Working it
My approach is an interdisciplinary one, and I combine whatever media necessary to explore the issues I focus on. My work ranges from figurative to expressive, and through research in philosophy and psychology, I strain to create new artistic techniques to get activist messages out in an accessible way.
Currently, I've been using the notion of storytelling, fairytales and the absurd to put forward a questioning of humanity's relationship with nature. My penchant for the horrific and the sublime adds heavy layers to my creations as well as a certain urgency and depth. My paintings include soft fabrics, crude stitching, rough but also fine lines, further expressing the duality of my subject. Many of my drawings and paintings are featured in my videos, where they are animated and weaved into the stories they inspire.
Exhibitions (* denotes juried shows)
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*TAIS animation showcase 08 |
June 2008 |
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A Plant Wedding NFB Mediateque, Toronto |
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*Studio XX: Matricules launch |
May 13th 2008 |
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selected works from Arborescence RED Hexagram Concordia, Montreal |
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*Arborescence RED |
April - May 2008 |
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Nexus Gallery, Montreal |
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*The Void mag “Tree Hugger” launch |
March 31, 2008
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Featured video: A Plant Wedding Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal |
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*Femmes Br@nchées 66 HTMlles 8 video |
November 2007
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Studio XX, Montreal |
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*Andalunda, interdisciplinary group show Disassociate and Red videos |
May 2007
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Mainline Theatre, Montreal |
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*Friendly Fire, interdisciplinary group show Jus Ad Bellum video |
March 2007
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Art Mûr gallery, Montreal |
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Sound Overtake group sound installations Trip with Marc Dekoy; interactive work |
November 2006
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Concordia University, Montreal |
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*Seen and Herd, commissioned collaborative video installations with Brian Hunter and Karim Talaat |
September 2006
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Concordia University event, Montreal |
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Video Art group screening Premonition video |
January 2006
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Concordia University, Montreal |
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Le Show, multidisciplinary group exhibition Metro: Newspaper Dress video installation |
April 2005
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Le Local, 7154 St-Urbain, Montreal |
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*Window Watching, group screenings Metro: Newspaper Dress video |
March 2005
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store front windows, Montreal |
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*Night of the Film, group screening Inside-Out video |
March 2005
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Art Matters Festival - DeSeve Theatre, Montreal |
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Trembling Ground, group installation |
2004 |
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Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea, Casacalenda, Italy |
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*Graduating Exhibition group show Fat Dress, Red Dream, Self-Portrait Yellow |
May 2003
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Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal |
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Prints, printmaking group show Café Chaos, Montreal |
2003
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Publications
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Soliloquies Vol. 11.1 Environ-mental Problems painting, 2007 |
Winter 2008
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The Concordian Newspaper Arts articles and design |
2007
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Les Fleurs du Mal magazine Vol.2 no.1 Teller interactive work 2007, and articles |
September 2007
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Alfred design magazine Vol.2 no.4 Tree Hugger - rock n’ roll, illustration, 2007 |
July 2007
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Les Fleurs du Mal magazine Vol.1 no.2 Video (cover art), spread and articles |
September 2006
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Press
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Indyish blog "Arborescence RED: Annie Briard's snapshots of our relationship to the environment" |
May 2008
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The Concordian Vol. 25 Issue 26 April 1 2008
"Arborescence RED student's first exhibition: Unusual fairy tale theme breaks the green mold"
Grants
To talk with Annie:
annie.briard@gmail.com
