Representation :
New York : Glowlab Gallery
Chicago : Allrise Gallery
Toronto : Art Interiors

Born in 1980, Alice Jarry works and lives in Montreal, Canada. She is a graduate of Concordia university Design and Computation Art program. As co-founder of the Montreal based studio Sérigraphie Cinqunquatre, her work has been showcased in more than twenty exhibitions across Canada and the US.

Jarry uses a wide variety of media to render her figurative work on either paper or wood: drawing, linocut, painting, digital art and photography are simultaneously mixed together to create multi layered silkscreens. By using a mechanical reproduction technique to create original pieces like monoprints or large wood panels instead of traditionnal editions, Alice Jarry’s work challenges the formal print conventions. Also, a meticulous work on the canvas itself is achieved by superimposing countless layers of ink in order to create a textured background. Even if color is really important in her work, Alice prefers them broken and washed. As a result, the final image that emerges often looks aged and used.

Strongly influenced by architecture, urbanism and american folk art, she depicts an imaginary territory where the representation of anecdotes, scènes de genre, consumption goods and urban furniture investigate the relationship that ties people to their physical environnement. She interrogates how we are influenced by the structures that surrounds us and what is the space leftover for a domestic landscape within the frame of a more global, public one. By using vernacular motifs that carry history and symbolism, her work also examines the concepts of repetition, sampling and sequencing inherent to the modern world of techniques.