Sophie Jodoin studied Visual Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, and has become one of my favorite contemporary artist. She has participated in various group shows and art fairs in Canada, Prague, Miami, Chicago, New York, London, San Francisco and Philadelphia, as well as hosting her own solo exhibitions. She has works of art owned in private and public collections both in North America and in Europe. Her most recent exhibition is held in the Battat Contemporary, in Montreal. Battat Contemporary exhibits the work of contemporary artists, with the goal of supporting the local art scene in general, and in promoting work from artists in Canada and abroad. The Sophie Jodoin's exhibition at Battat Contemporary is entitled “Head games: hoods, helmets & gas masks” and is comprised of 75 drawings and a projected video that she created in collaboration with David Jhave Johnston. The visual exhibition is accompanied by a hardcover publication by her, entitled “ Sophie Jodoin: War Series” which is a collection of her larger war series, with a text and interview by Border Crossings magazine. This exhibition began in March 19 – April 25, 2009.
Her next exhibition is also held at Battat Contemporary, entitled “I felt a cleaving in my mind” and opened on November 3, 2011, and ended on December 17th. Her work consist of many different subjects, but uncontentious portrays they all in the same way. A constant in her work is the figure of old people, babies, the weak and wounded. My favorite of her pieces is not playing with the distorted figure , but the figure placement makes the piece distorted in itself. Since 2003, every painting she has produced has been in black and white, and finished within the day. Her work gives off a fragile and disturbed feeling at the same time, the figures are usually physically weak but the method in which they are portrayed are meant to be puzzling. The displacement distortion she experiments with also vary, the method is to portray all the figures as equal, so as much as possible. In some pieces, she fades the composition to the point where only a gist of it is left, in others, she renders one part of the figure (usually the face) in detail, and fades the rest, my favorites are in which she renders the figure completely, but harshly crops certain parts of the body, as in sliced off.
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