Santa Fe Exhibition - McLarry Fine Art, Oct. 8th, 2010. Here's a video (above) of the show in situ. NEW! Building wrapped in huge enlargement of Marchessault painting.  Read more at the blog: http://robert-marchessault.blogspot.com/2011/06/avendale.html NEW! Oct. 2011. Marchessault visits Mosaic Museum and other sites in Istanbul, and later in Izmir Province, Turkey.  The artist is developing new painting ideas that connect with his prior work from the 1990s using mosaic-like elements. NEW!  Now available at blurb.com the 2011 catalogue of current paintings by the artist.  Click this image for a full preview of the catalogue contents. Celebrity Purchase: I received an email from Stacey Roman Fine Arts in LA seeking information on my current prices in order to appraise (for insurance purposes) a painting of mine purchased by the actor Martin Short.  The email contained a photo of the work.  It was interesting to see the piece in the actor's home.  The painting is titled "Tree and Clouds" 24x50 Inches. NEW* Robert Marchessault will be represented at Art Chicago by Tanner Hill Galleries. The booth will feature new paintings.  In April 2011 he will be the feature artist at the Tanner Hill booth at the Dallas Art Fair . The artist on the Second Mesa of the Hopi Lands, AZ, April 2011. Travels Marchessault spent some time exploring northern Arizona looking for inspiration and recharging his visual batteries.  A break from his busy studio helps keep the new paintings fresh. The Houston Art Fair runs Sept. 15th - 18th, 2011.  Marchessault will present new paintings at the Tanner-Hill Booth. NEW* Nov. 2009. A Marchessault painting appears in new hit TV sci fi series V The Visitors. The 2008 oil on panel titled "Nuncio" (24 x 68 inches) is shown in episode two in the the living room of Morris Chestnut played by Ryan Nichols.     Morena Bacarin plays Anna in "V The Visitors" Nuncio, 2008, oil/panel 24 x 68 appears in episode 2 of V The Visitors   NEW* The book The Hidden Gates, Paintings from 2009 is now available for purchase at Blurb.com. The hardcover book features selected work from the artist's studio produced in 2009. There is also an essay by the artist. You may preview the book in hi-resolution full screen mode at the Blurb web site.

NEW* The book Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice features work by Marchessault in the book and on the back cover. The book can be purchased through Amazon at this link. Or from the author Mitchell Albala at his web site.

2010 Solo Shows: Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto (June 5th), Gallerie deBellefeuille, Montreal, (July 31) and October 8th at McLarry Fine Art in Santa Fe NM. Online catalogue "Hozo" from the Marchessault exhibition in Montreal is viewable by clicking on the image (right).

Escarpment 1993, collection of The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery

NEW* The Canadian Cultural Properties Review Board determined that the 1993 Marchessault painting ("Escarpment" oil 40x120 inches, irregular shape) meets the criteria of section 11 of the Cultural Properties Export and Import Act - "outstanding significance and national importance". This painting was donated to the permanent collection of the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery. This is Marchessault's second painting donated under this designation; the other painting is in the collection of the MacLaren Art Centre.

NEW* Read the transcript of a 2008 interview between Marchessault and Sandra Fraser (curator at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario).

Again! For the sixth year in a row Marchessault paintings will be presented at the Toronto International Art Fair. You can find his work at the Bau-Xi Gallery and Gallerie de Bellefeuille booths.

NEW! "Harvest of Light" is a new book about Marchessault's paintings from 2007 - 2008. It will accompany his upcoming shows in Toronto (Feb 2009), Seattle (June 2009) and Vancouver (Nov 2009). You can order a copy of "Harvest of Light" online. Click here to preview/order your copy.

Book Cover: 2008: Les Éditions du Boréal, 4447, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal has purchased the right to use a 2008 painting by Marchessault (SND Again, 30x30 oil/panel) for the cover of a new book of poetry by Hélène Monette. To be published in the fall of 2008, the book is titled Thérèse Pour Joie et Orchrestre.

Movie 2007: One of Marchessault's large paintings features prominently during the first 10 minutes of the film Shattered. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler, Emma Karwandy, Desiree Zurowski.
Directed by: Mike Barker , Produced by: Pierce Brosnan, Mel Gibson, Beau St. Clair. Over the last 10 years many of Marchessault's paintings have appeared in over 9 feature films and many TV dramas.

 

 

 

Canadian House and Home - The Artist File by Betty Anne Jordan covered Robert Marchessault in it's May 2006 issue on pages 92 - 94.  Click the images to see the pages enlarged.

Travels - Marchessault travelled in Italy in the fall of 2007 (Tuscany, Venice, Florence, Rome). New paintings are begining to reflect some of the wonderful things seen there (for example: "Hidden Forces" 48x48, 2008).

Robert Marchessault is married to the painter Teresa Cullen (below) with whom he has collaborated on several recent paintings. Teresa was an artist in residence and a fellow at the Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, NM in2004.

 

Robert Marchessault was born in Montreal in 1953. His early years (until 1969) were spent in the USA, (Philadelphia and Syracuse, NY). In the late 1960s his family relocated to France before returning to Canada in 1970 where he completed his fine arts studies at Concordia University (Montreal). He married the Canadian painter Teresa Cullen in 1977 and the couple settled in Toronto. There they painted professionally from a downtown studio until building a country studio in 1983 near Owen Sound, ON. In 1997 Marchessault completed a Master of Arts at the University of Toronto and the couple subsequently relocated and built two new studios close to Barrie, Ontario where they currently reside and work.

Marchessault continues to paint and exhibit nationally and internationally producing several exhibitions a year. His work is avidly collected and can be found world wide in many respected collections. The main galleries that represent his work are located in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Seattle, Santa Fe, Calgary and Edmonton.