Mathieu Lacroix’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, video, installation and performance. His work is rooted in the revaluation of material, both through the recontextualization of his personal artefacts and through the formal representation of marginalized objects, often regarded as waste. This approach reveals the aesthetic potential of these abandoned items, highlighting both their random presence and their monumentality in our everyday lives. Through this practice, Lacroix questions the complex relationship between the individual and their environment, while reinterpreting the unsuspected beauty of neglected materials that are often discarded or removed from sight. By playing with the transparency of various papers ad superimposing layers of pictorial images, Lacroix allows these accumulations to provoke ‘happy accidents’, disrupting the reading of the works and inviting us to discover the hidden details within his drawings. This subtle approach blends abstraction and figuration, restoring artistic significance to specific aspects comprised in the conventions of art, such as the very notion of the ‘sketch,’ which is central to Lacroix’s work.
Mathieu Lacroix lives and works in Montreal. His practice, which combines drawing, performance, and video, has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and internationally, notably at the Musée d’art de Joliette, Af-flux: Biennale Transationale Noire (Montreal), the Off Biennale de Dakar (Senegal), the Centre Clark (Montreal), the FAB Gallery at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), and Underdonk (New York). He has performed in numerous venues, including the FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto), the 7a*11d festival (Toronto), and Dazibao (Montreal). His works are part of the Wedge Collection as well as the collections of the City of Montreal and the City of Drummondville.
RECENT NEWS
Acquisition
Jessica Wee
Artwork joins the University of Toronto Missisauga Collection
Drawing from domestic scenes and quotidian moments, Wee’s paintings weave together personal experiences, art historical references and fantasy.
Press
Andrea Szilasi
Review of Réfléchir in Ciel variable by Alexis Desgagnés
Published in Issue 132 “Tableaux”, Desgagnés offers a thoughtful and generous reflection on the exhibition, capturing the subtle and affective resonance of the works on view.
Museum Exhibition
Yves Tessier
MAC group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts
Girls on Campus by Tessier will be featured in Comfort and Indifference, an exhibition highlighting recent acquisitions from the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’s collection.
Press
Bea Parsons
Review of kiyânaw in Border Crossings Magazine by Cameron Skene
Skene traces connections between Parsons’ vibrant pencil crayon drawings and installation, situating them in relation to enduring and contemporary Indigenous currents of thought.
Announcement
Rebecca Munce
Major Public Art Project in Toronto
This public art initiative, developed in collaboration with The Bentway and Exhibition Place, will take the form of a 10,000-square-foot mural spanning a large concrete wall beneath the Gardiner Expressway.
Announcement
Michelle Bui
New Public Artwork for the Réseau express métropolitain
McBride Contemporain is pleased to announce the inauguration of Filets, a new public artwork and triptych by represented artist Michelle Bui, permanently on display at Sainte-Dorothée Station in the REM.
McBride Contemporain is a contemporary art gallery based in Montreal.