Winner of the Monique and Robert Parizeau
November 2003
by Denise Pelletier
(DP) - Elmyna Bouchard, an artist originally from Lac-Saint-Jean who works in the field of printmaking, is the winner of the 2003 Prix de la Fondation Monique et Robert Parizeau. Launched in 2002 in partnership with the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, invited competition aims to provide support to artists working in the field of printmaking in Quebec. Contest 2003 invite artists under forty years old with a solid path.
Foundation Monique and Robert Parizeau Bouchard Elmyna delivered to an amount of $ 50 000, distributed as follows: a grant of $ 20 000 from the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, a sum of 15,000 U.S. dollars intended for the purchase of prints from the winner by the museum's acquisition committee, and an amount of $ 15 000 for the Museum to produce a book on the work of the winner, published in French, with translations in English and English.
The launch of the publication on the work of Ludmila Armata, first winner of the Prix de la Fondation Monique et Robert Parizeau in 2002, was also performed at the awards ceremony 2003.
Born in 1965 at Holy Heart of Mary, Elmyna Bouchard received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. Winner of the Biennial of drawing, printmaking and paper Quebec (Alma, 2001), the International Biennial of contemporary printmaking Trois-Rivières (2001) and printmaking competition Loto-Quebec (2000), she has to her credit many solo exhibitions, including most recently "From time to self II" at Galerie Madeleine Lacerte in Quebec and "Prints", Galerie La Digue in Marseille. She also participated in numerous exhibitions in Canada and Europe, and many of his works are in numerous collections such as the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec, Loto-Quebec, Alcan. She now lives in Montreal.
With his most recent Elmyna Bouchard holds - as explained in art historian Hedwig Asselin in 2001 - "memories of his childhood in a small way, with signs of great simplicity . Without apparent order, the objects hover in the air, absolutely free (and) plan to a sense of passage of time and personal history of a place. "
Elmyna Bouchard also demonstrated great technical expertise, employing as many as three different techniques of printmaking to a single work.
