Spring Art Exhibit at Tétreau

Reuel S. Amdur

On August 8, we took in the Springtime Exhibition of Arts Visuels de Gatineau, at Tétreau Community Centre.  Of the many pieces in the exhibition, three especially caught our eye.  We invited retired high school arts teacher Adèle Gauthier to comment on these.  So here goes.

Dalia Mendoza Limón presented different contributions, standard tableaux, clothing with art designs on it, and a book in Spanish, La Levedad del Alma (The Lightness of the Soul).  The book has Spanish text, including poems and illustrations.

We picked her La cite perdu as a tableau to focus on.  It is a work produced with cold wax.  Gauthier praised the work, using adjectives such as elegant and special.  She called attention to the warm colors and the sense of volatility.

Mendoza has been working with cold wax for three or four years, while her artistic endeavors in general go back to 2004.  Her first exhibition was four years later.  She has studied with some local artists, but, before that, she studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).  She has returned to teach at the UNAM, now at its Gatineau campus.

Mendoza can be reached at dameli.art@gail.com.

We next were drawn to Monique Pelletier’s tableau Flamboyant, in acrylic.  Gauthier commented on the warm colors.  She found the canvas to be close to the pointillist style. When told that Pelletier was self-taught, Gautier was impressed by the quality of her work.  Pelletier has been engaged in this métier for ten years.  Her address is pelletierm@videotron.ca.

Our last choice was Diane Groulx’  “Il était une fois”.  “That‘s once upon a time,” Groulx explained. Gauthier saw this piece as conveying a sense of chaos, with senses of change and contrast. She commented in particular about the luminous yellow.

Groulx began to work with oils in her teens, moving to acrylic around 1990.  She then began focusing on watercolor, which she has taught for 25 years.  Currently she teaches at Gatineau’s Aylmer Cultural Centre.  Groulx is a fellow of the Ottawa Watercolor Society.  You can reach her at diangroulxartiste@videotron.ca.

Photo credit: Reuel S Amdur