looking up

michael dumontier, untitled, 2013
(coloured pencil, crayon, and graphite on mdf, paper) (photo by Ernest Mayer)

The exhibition Looking Up: Contemporary Connections with Inuit Art closes this weekend (March 16th) at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Luke Angudadluq, Appa, Shuvinai Ashoona, Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Michael Dumontier, Aganetha Dyck, Isaci Etidlui, Tommy Evvik, Neil Farber, Simon Hughes, Jacob Irkok, Jeanette Johns, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, John Kaunak, Janet Kigusiuq, Qaqasiralaq Kullualik, Sylvia Matas, Andy Miki, Martha Noah, William Noah, Jessie Oonark, John Pangnark, Pudlo Pudlat, Nancy Pukingrnak Aupaluktuq, Paul Robles, Nick Sikkurak, Simon Tookoome, Charlie Ugyuk

curated by Paul Butler

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sock

Michael Dumontier, 2013
Sock
powder-coated cast iron
21.5cm x 18cm x 2cm
edition of 6

Nothing Else Press launched my new edition today. Also here and on facebook.

Thanks Dave and Roula!

house face

October 2012
 

October 2011

October 2010

October 2009

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MKG127 booth at Art Toronto.
me, laurel woodcock, dave dyment, roula partheniou, ken nicol, liza eurich, bill burns...(in no particular order). 
photo thanks to PVK.

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If you're in Toronto, I have some work at TIAF (Oct. 26-29)----visit MKG127 (booth 1120) and Galerie Division.

call ampersand response

Some photos of our exhibition at Artexte in Montreal. The show featured all the source material from our book Call Ampersand Response, published by Artexte and Nieves.

Micah Lexier and I will be at this year's New York Art Book Fair (which starts tomorrow). On Friday at 2PM, we'll be sitting with our book at the Nieves table (table Z02) .  Looking forward!

photos by Paul Litherland, courtesy of Artexte Information Centre.

the sky and the ground

the sky and the ground (for Remy Charlip)
Michael Dumontier, foil stamp on found books, 2012

I made these for Remy Charlip. I had his address, but I took my time and never sent him one. Now he is gone. Let that be a lesson to you (and me). R.I.P. Mr. Charlip.  

previously here and here

(thanks and thoughts to erika b.)

attention as place/temporary library

My contribution to ROLU's residency at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 14 books---a temporary library:
1. Floral Art of Japan--Tourist Library: 1 by Issotei Nishikawa, Japan Travel Bureau, 1936, 1949
2. Making Simple Constructions by Hansi Bohm, Studio Vista, 1971
3. The Art of Paper Tearing by Eric Hawkesworth, Faber and Faber, 1970, 1973
4. Whittling and Woodcarving by E.J.Tangerman, Dover Publications, 1936, 1962
5. Weathered Wood with Flowers by Mary G. Knight, William Morrow and Co., 1968
6. Creative Wood Design by Ernst Rottger, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1960
7. Building an Igloo by Ulli Steltzer, Groundwood/Douglas and McIntyre, 1981, 1990
8. Architecture: A book of projects for young adults by Forrest Wilson,Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1968
9. Sculpture in Wood by Ferelyth & Bill Wills, Douglas, David, & Charles, 1975
10. Meaning in Crafts by Edward L. Mattil, Prentice Hall Inc., 1959
11. Fun with Figures by Mae and Ira Freeman, Random House, 1946
12. Paper: Folded, Cut, Sculpted by Florence Temko, MacMillan Publishing, 1974
13. Sculpture in Stone by Paul Cummings, self published, 1989
14. The Further Adventures of Cardboard Carpentry by George Cope & Phylis Morrison, Workshop for Learning Things, 1973

I feel really honoured to be in a small way part of ROLU's residency. Thanks to Matt for the invitation. Please follow the action here and also here.

the sky and the ground

a few more I've made lately.
the sky and the ground (for Remy Charlip), Michael Dumontier, 2012, foil stamp on found books.

Call Ampersand Response

Call Ampersand Response by Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier, published by Artexte (Montreal) and Nieves (Zurich), 2012

Just got an advance copy of this book I made with Micah Lexier.  It should be available from Artexte and Nieves in a couple weeks. 

Envoi esperluette Réponse

exhibition/book launch
Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
Artexte, Montreal
June 7 - September 8, 2012

Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made of images exchanged via email. Over a period of several months, Dumontier and Lexier sustained an image-based correspondence by sending each other scans of book covers, found objects, drawings and illustrations belonging to each artist's respective collection. The project is based on the idea that their collections speak of their shared artistic affinities while informing their practices. Two rules dictated their conduct: each image was to function as a "call" seeking a "response" from the other artist, and the dialogue was to end when an image recalling the project's opening image emerged, thereby constituting a narrative loop. Their conversation gave rise to a bookwork co-edited by Nieves (Zurich) and Artexte. In Artexte's new gallery space, the project is shown as an installation in which shared themes and motifs are seen to play out over time, alongside objects selected from the source material.

Call Ampersand Response
196 pp. (including covers), 196 b&w illus.,
25.5 x 19.5 cm. Co-published by
Nieves and Artexte.
ISBN 978-3-905999-08-2

for R.C.

the sky and the ground (for Remy Charlip)

foil stamp on found book. varied edition---made as I find the right books.