Artist: Wayne Boucher

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Since 1975 my painted work has dealt with surface tensions between figuration and abstraction, geometry, and organicism in play with large elemental fields of colour, or black and white. The paintings from (1997-1999) utilized a variety of international signaling codes; such as marine signal flags, ground to air signals, and Morse code . These spatial images portended to vast oceanic voyages, and dangerous crossings in opposition with the systemic pattern and codification of the signals. The painted work from 2000 to 2003 are about the familiar and unfamiliar underworld of watery places and saturated colour space. "All I really wanted people to do is fall in and drown in the work". The recent paintings from 2004 to 2011 used colour to create architectural, and elemental spaces where marks, gestures and push-pull dynamics inform the theatrics and content of the image.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

• 2010 Geometry of Desire, curaor Marcelle Belliveau, Le Trécarré Galerie, Universite-Saint Anne, Pointe D'Eglise, NS, Canada, 01 to 02,2010

• 2009 Recent Works, Ingrid Mueller Fine Arts, Fredericton, NB, April 3 -24

• 2008 A Gathering of Lines, Gallery Page and Strange, Hfx, NS, Nov 7 -28

• 2008 At the Border, Borderline Gallery, Mae Sot, Thailand March 2008

• 2006-8 Wayne Boucher : Radiance and Counterpoint, guest curator Peter Dykhuis Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Sept 1 - Oct 22, AGNS Yarmouth, Oct 29 - Jan.5, 2007, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI, Mar 7 - May 31, 11 2008, McCarthy Gallery, Truro, Aug. 23 -Sep. 28, 2008

• 2006 Wayne Boucher Recent Works, Gallery Page and Strange, Hfx, May

• 2006 Réveil, Galerie Georges Goguen, Moncton, NB, April

• 2002 Proscenium, ARTZONE, Charlottetown, PEI, Nov.

• 2002 Recent Spaces, ARTsPLACE, Annapolis Royal, NS, Oct - Nov.

• 2000 The Pilot Suite, I-Land Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, April 15 - May 102000 Recent Works, James Baird Gallery, St. John's , NF, June 1 to 30

• 1999 Signal Stories, ARTsPLACE, Annapolis Royal, NS, June 1 to Sept 30

• 1998 Mixed Signals, Studio 21, Halifax, NS, November

• 1997 Recent Works, Jame Baird Gallery, St. John's , NF, Aug 16 to Sept 10

• Surfacing, Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS, May to Sept

• Surfacing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, curated by Susan Gibson Garvey, organized by Acadia University Art Gallery, March & April

• 1994 Land's End, King's Theatre, Annapolis Royal, March

• 1986 Wayne Boucher:A Survey, curated by Susan Gibson Garvey, organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
  - Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
  - Petro Can Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  - Centennial Art Gallery, Oakville, Ontario
  - Centre Culturel de l' Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ
  - College of Cape Breton Art Gallery, Sydney, Nova Scotia
  - Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville , Nova Scotia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2009 --- Small Town RCA:Adams, Boucher & Butler, ArtsPlace Annapolis Royal, NS

• 2007-8 --- Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF) Ingrid Mueller Fine Art & Gallery Page & Strange

• 2006 --- Group Show, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, On, June

• 2006 --- Karlsrhule International Arts Fair,Karlsrhule, DE

• 2006 --- Groups Show, Schloss Mochenthal, Ehingen, Germany, November

• 2005 --- Group Show, Deutsche Werkstaetten Hellerau, Dresden , Germany , September

• 2004 ---Galerie Saule, Petit Ruisseau, Co-operative, ongoing

• 2004 --- Wayne Boucher & Kay Stanfield, Secord Gallery, Halifax, NS, June

• 2003 --- About Colour, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, AB, November

• 2003 --- Figure Ground, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, AB, March

• 2003 --- Wayne Boucher & Suzanne Hill, ARTCONTACT, Fredericton, NB, June

• 2002 --- Elemental with Claude Chaloux, Universite St-Anne, Church Point, NS

• 2001 --- Wayne Boucher and Tom Forrestall, Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, March

• 2001 --- Annapolis Valley Artists: - Adams, Boucher, Cropas, Neville, Leidl, Martin, Butler, & Mueller-Both; Argyle Fine Art, Halifax , NS, Feb 9 - Mar 7

• 2001 --- From the Eastern Edge: - Robert Bean, J. Gary Knowles, Andrea Cooper Don Russell, Marlen Creates, Peter Dykhuis, Bill Rose, J.J. Lee, and Wayne Boucher, I-Land Gallery, Toronto ON, Dec 2, 2000 to Jan 24, 2001.

• 2000 --- Westward Ho: A Guided Tour, Oscar Ho Hing-Kay, Curator. Wayne Boucher and Gerald Ferguson, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax NS, July 4 - August 26, as part of a project by CAPS for HX: Halifax Exhibition of Contemporary art

• 1998 --- Landscape in Question, - Wayne Boucher, Gerald Ferguson, Susan McEachern and Monica Tap curated by Susan Gibson Garvey , Dalhousie Art Gallery,

• 1998 --- Responses, - Wayne Boucher, Michael Fernandes, Jim Logan, Marilyn McAvoy, Wilma Needham, and Michel de Noncourt; curated by Virginia Stephen, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, April 21 to June 21

• 1998 --- The Painter's Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery. Cornerbrook, Newfoundland, February - March

• 1997 --- The Painter's Newfoundland, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's , Newfoundland, February 15 to April 12

• 1990 --- Three: Wayne Boucher, Leya Evelyn, and Richard Mueller; Glendon College Art Gallery, York University, Toronto ON, February - March

• 1989 --- Three: Wayne Boucher, Leya Evelyn, and Richard Mueller; curated by Leighton Davis, Saint Marys University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

COLLECTIONS:

Acadia University Art Gallery	Air Canada
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia	Atlantic Business Interiors
Canada Council Art Bank	Dalhousie Art Gallery
National Gallery of Canada	Nova Scotia Art Bank
Lavalin	Art Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

NSTCH - Creation Grant	2009
Canada Canda Council Travel Grant, Mae Sot Thailand	2008
NS Tourism, Culture, & Heritage. Commission Grant	2008
Portia White Award	2006
Juried Art Mural Competiton, Grand-Pré Nat'l Historic Site	2004
Elected Member Royal Canadian Academy RCA	2003
NS Arts and Culture Partnership Council Creation Grant	2003
Canada Council Established Artist Creation Grant	2002
Nova Scotia Arts Council Creation Grant	2001
Nova Scotia Arts Council Presentation Grant	1999
Nova Scotia arts Council Creation Grant	1998
Canada Council ' B' Grants	1989, 1986

STUDIES:

1972-75	BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - painting,drawing, & lithography
1974	Banff Centre, Alberta - summer program

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