May 2013: Marchessault will be represented in California at the Tanner Hill Gallery booth at the artMRKT San Francisco 2013 located in the Fort Mason Center-Festival Pavilion, (May 16-19).

January 2013: Marchessault will be represented exclusively in London and the UK by the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. An initial crate of paintings will be delivered in time for her booth at ART 13 London. www.r-h-g.co.uk/

Exhibition Opening - Feb 9, 2013, Bau-Xi Galleries, 340 Dundas St. W., Toronto. Marchessault has been represented in Toronto and Vancouver by the galleries since 1988. The new show will present new paintings from 2012-2013.

For the seventh year in a row, Marchessault was represented at the Toronto International Art Fair. His works could be seen at the Gallerie de Bellefeuille and Bau-Xi Galleries booths.

McLarry Fine Art: Marchessault Exhibition,Oct. 8th, 2010. Here's a video (above) of the show in situ.

Building wrapped in huge enlargement of Marchessault painting. Read more at the blog: http://robert-marchessault.blogspot.com/2011/06/avendale.html

Teresa Cullen and Robert Marchessault at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON. Their work (click to enlarge) is highlighted in a new show, Found in Translation: Highlights from the Contemporary Collection (Sept - Nov. 2012).

A Marchessault painting titled "Kalkasa" is part of the set design for some of the opening scenes in the movie "The Big Year", 2011, starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black.

Oct. 2011. Marchessault visits Mosaic Museum and other sites in Istanbul, and later in Izmir Province, Turkey. Always open to new artistic ideas even from very very old sources!

A Marchessault painting features in the movie LOVE HAPPENS, staring Jenifer Aniston and Aron Eckhart. Without spoiling the story; about mid-way through the movie the male lead character is looking behind paintings to find something.  It ends up behind a Marchessault painting.

Now available at blurb.com the 2011 catalogue of current paintings by the artist. Click this image for afull preview of the catalogue contents.

Marchessault has played guitar since childhood and performed publiclyin Quebec from 1974 - 76 as part of an indie rock band that toured the Province. He never lost his love ofmusic and continues to play guitar and support musicians in his region (mostly jazz). In 2009he co-produced "Live At Fitzy's" a CD by the Joe Huron Trio featuring top Jazz musicians from the Toronto scene,including Lorne Lofsky, Bill McBirnie, Richard Underhill, Jeff Jones, Bob Linvingston and Pat LaBarbera.

(Photos above: Marchessault in 1975 and 2012, Cover of Lize At Fitzy's - 2009).

Marchessault 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.

Robert Marchessault will be represented at Art Chicago by Tanner Hill Galleries. The booth will feature new paintings. In April 2012 his work is featured at the Tanner Hill booth at the Dallas Art Fair.

The artist on the Second Mesa of the Hopi Lands, AZ, April 2011. He 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.

Houston Art Fair runs Sept. 15th - 18th, 2011. Marchessault will present new paintings at the Tanner-Hill Booth.

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.

Nuncio, 2008, oil/panel 24 x 68 appears in episode 2 of V The Visitors (SOLD)

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.

Printed catalogue "Hozo" from the Marchessault exhibition in Montreal available from Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal.

Escarpment 1993, oil, 36"x102", collection of The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.

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.

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

"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.

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