| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | New Brunswick-born artist Julie Duschenes earned her B.F.A. at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (1975), and then her M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia (1982). After teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, she taught printmaking at the University of Lethbridge and furthered her own art by creating watercolours, oil paintings, acrylics on cotton, and monoprints.
Duschenes juxtaposes landscape and still-life by incorporating everyday household objects and the coulees surrounding Lethbridge into her works. Southern Alberta Art Gallery curator Joan Stebbins writes that Duschenes’s “re-creations of table settings, schematic landscape mapping of industrial debris and codified representations of military communications networks… tackle the problems inherent in representation and are, in fact, a critique of that history.”
Duschenes has had dozens of solo exhibitions in Lethbridge, Calgary, Vancouver, Halifax, and Saint John, as well as in Sackville, New Brunswick, and Matane, Quebec. Her works have been included in scores of group shows and numerous catalogues, and won profiles in dozens of magazines. A range of public and private collections house her work, including those of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Université de Moncton, and the Canada Council Art Bank. Duschenes has won several Canada Council grants and a Faber-Castel Award at the 4th International Triennial Drawing Exhibition in Nuremberg. She teaches printmaking at the University of Lethbridge. |