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Psychological Landscapes brings together the works of Guy Lapierre, Elias Vey, Étienne Roy, Jiangyu Huang, and Chenyu Wa...
05/25/2026

Psychological Landscapes brings together the works of Guy Lapierre, Elias Vey, Étienne Roy, Jiangyu Huang, and Chenyu Wang through painting, digital media, and spatial visual language, exploring how environments continuously shape emotion, desire, memory, and psychological perception.

In Guy Lapierre’s paintings, natural landscapes are transformed into fluid and deeply sensory spaces. Through expressive gestures and layered surfaces, the works move beyond representation, becoming traces of light, atmosphere, and emotional experience. Étienne Roy similarly approaches painting as a psychological space, placing fragmented figures within everyday environments rendered through unstable and energetic brushwork that evokes isolation, memory, and emotional distance.

In contrast, Elias Vey constructs darker and more oppressive worlds populated by abandoned urban spaces, animal imagery, and ambiguous human relationships. His works unfold like cinematic fragments suspended between reality and dream, reflecting underlying tensions of survival, fear, and psychological instability.

Meanwhile, the digital works of Jiangyu Huang and Chenyu Wang expand these concerns into the social sphere, examining how systems of class, technology, consumerism, and institutional structures shape contemporary identity, desire, and perceptions of the future.

Although each artist approaches image-making differently, the exhibition ultimately proposes the idea of the “psychological landscape” as an internal terrain — one formed not only by physical environments, but also by memory, social structures, emotion, and lived experience.

LAROBorn in 1973 in Cowansville, I spent my childhood and adolescence in Rimouski, in eastern Quebec. After studying Vis...
05/12/2026

LARO

Born in 1973 in Cowansville, I spent my childhood and adolescence in Rimouski, in eastern Quebec. After studying Visual Arts at ”Cégep de Rimouski“, I pursued a degree in Graphic Communication at ”Université Laval de Quebec“ before embarking on a career as art director in advertising. This path led me to Montreal and then to Saudi Arabia, where I worked for five years.
 
Since returning to Quebec in 2013, I have been living in Montreal, where I develop my art and work as a freelancer in design, advertising, and motion design. In summary, my artistic and professional journey has been shaped for over 30 years by a dual practice in painting and art direction.

My current artistic practice revolves around a large-scale project: Totemic Pareidolia, a monumental series of interconnected segments. Over time, this work aims to expand to a total of 1,000 canvases, of which more than a hundred have been completed to date.

This project explores my interest in the mechanisms of fragmented perception and how the mind assembles and reinterprets images in resonance with the visual experience.

Karine GuyonShe began her painting journey many years ago as a response to grief and trauma. Early on, she discovered th...
05/12/2026

Karine Guyon
She began her painting journey many years ago as a response to grief and trauma. Early on, she discovered that art could be both a vessel for expressing what words could not and a pathway toward healing. This formative experience has shaped her vision as an artist, revealing that painting is not primarily an aesthetic pursuit or a career path, but a transformative vocation that bridges inner experience with the material world and the spiritual world. Through her work, she seeks to give form to the subtle layers of emotion that accompany the human experience, the energies that move through and around us, and the invisible dimensions beyond. She sees painting as an escape, a meditative practice and a way to translate the unseen into a visual vocabulary, and she believes that works born of genuine inquiry and vulnerability can serve as portals for others, inviting reflection and release.
Driven by an expressive urgency to apply paint and make marks intuitively, without overthinking the results, her work has gradually evolved to include a hierarchy of recurring shapes such as grids and circles. Childhood memories of forgotten toys and cherished moments have resurfaced, subtly informing her color choices and visual language. The tension between rigid structures and chaotic spaces mirrors her inner experience of an ongoing search for balance through order. As she continues to work through the lifelong consequences of grief, she has come to realize that she no longer needs the same degree of structure. Within her system of painting, the grids have begun to misbehave, softening into distorted forms and giving way for the circle, symbolic of cycles, space and time, to take more ground.

Woodydacherry  Now on view at 1215 Gallery.Born in Montréal in 2001, Woodydacherry brings his original characters, the “...
04/28/2026

Woodydacherry

Now on view at 1215 Gallery.

Born in Montréal in 2001, Woodydacherry brings his original characters, the “Lil Guys,” into quietly unsettling situations—where innocence meets themes of escapism, addiction, and emotional turbulence.

Through these small, seemingly simple figures, his work balances clean, minimal compositions with an underlying sense of instability—what feels controlled at first slowly begins to unravel.

Developed as an extension of this universe, the “Lil Guys” are now translated into a series of air fresheners in collaboration with —bringing his characters out of the image and into everyday space.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the vernissage.An afternoon shaped by light, movement, and quiet conversations a...
04/23/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the vernissage.
An afternoon shaped by light, movement, and quiet conversations around the works.

In Formation is now on view

📍 1215 Gallery, Montreal
🗓 Until May 13

Featuring:
Engin Demir · Jenny Ouellet · Karine Guyon · Patrick Larochelle · Yaxuan Liao · Woody Da Cherry

Curator:Chupei Yu
Co- Curator: Zitong Yu

Jenny Ouellet  Now on view at 1215 Gallery.Ouellet’s practice explores the tension between structure and chaos—where abs...
04/23/2026

Jenny Ouellet

Now on view at 1215 Gallery.

Ouellet’s practice explores the tension between structure and chaos—where abstraction and figuration coexist in a constant state of transformation.

Her work draws from environmental and digital disruptions, translating floods, fires, and fragmented communication into layered, shifting compositions.

Through processes of accumulation and erasure, her paintings make visible what is often unseen.



In Formation
Until May 13

In Formatio — A group exhibition exploring image as a shifting state.Join us for the Vernissage. April 11, 3PM,1215 Gall...
04/08/2026

In Formatio — A group exhibition exploring image as a shifting state.

Join us for the Vernissage. April 11, 3PM,1215 Gallery.

Artists
Engin demir Jenny Ouellet Karine Guyon Patrick Larochelle Yaxuan LiaoWoodydacherry

Lead Curator:Chupei Yu
Co-Curator:Zitong Yu

On view:April 11- May 13

When Everything Slows Down reflects on moments of deceleration—when time loosens its grip and attention shifts inward. S...
02/09/2026

When Everything Slows Down reflects on moments of deceleration—when time loosens its grip and attention shifts inward. Stepping away from speed and constant output, the exhibition invites viewers to pause, allowing subtle emotions, sensations, and states of being to surface. In this slowed condition, perception becomes quieter, and presence takes on a renewed intensity.

When Everything Slows Down reflects on moments when time, perception, and emotion fall out of sync. Through works that e...
01/31/2026

When Everything Slows Down reflects on moments when time, perception, and emotion fall out of sync. Through works that engage with delay, repetition, landscape, and exhaustion, the exhibition explores how contemporary life is shaped by systems that fragment rest, blur reality, and suspend certainty. In this slowed state, attention shifts from immediacy to vulnerability, inviting viewers to sense what emerges when momentum gives way to reflection.

When Everything Slows DownArtistsJingchao YangJosé Lara MenéndezMédéric CorbinQishan LiRenwei LiuSam MorganShunyuanXiaot...
01/28/2026

When Everything Slows Down

Artists
Jingchao Yang
José Lara Menéndez
Médéric Corbin
Qishan Li
Renwei Liu
Sam Morgan
Shunyuan
Xiaotong Shen

Curator
Haobo Cui

When Everything Slows Down reflects on moments of deceleration—when time loosens its grip and attention shifts inward. Stepping away from speed and constant output, the exhibition invites viewers to pause, allowing subtle emotions, sensations, and states of being to surface. In this slowed condition, perception becomes quieter, and presence takes on a renewed intensity.

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