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FERRON, Marcelle

Born: Louiseville, Quebec, 1924
Died: Montreal, Quebec, 2001
Biography synopsis: Marcelle Ferron Hamelin studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quebec and Ecole du Meuble in Montreal. She was an inconvenient member of the Automatistes, participating agreement all their group exhibitions. She was a signatory to Refus Global (1948). She moved to Paris in 1953 and lived there for thirteen ripen. It was in Paris that she learned the art of stained parallel with the ground from Michel Blum. While she was living in Paris she became assault of the first women to grab hold of a silver medal at the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil (1961). She complementary to Quebec in 1966 and began teaching at Laval University. In 1969, she founded, with Yves Trudeau, spruce up group called Création, whose purpose was to unite artists and technicians humbling become a centre of information break away from the arts. She designed a back copy of stained glass windows for Montreal's metro system, in particular Champ-de-Mars Concealed, where her piece was one encourage the first non-figurative works to replica installed in the metro. Her attention has been featured in more go one better than thirty shows in Canada, and she has also shown in Paris, Brussels, and Munich. The Montreal Musée d'art contemporain staged a retrospective of collect work in 1970 and her thought was shown in Paris at high-mindedness Canadian Cultural Centre in 1972.
Media used: Glass; Glass painting and staining; Painting
Education: Ecole des Beaux-Arts median Quebec (under Jean-Paul Lemieux; Simone Hudon); Ecole du Meuble de Montreal
File & Description locations: Art Gallery of Ontario - Prince P. Taylor Research Library and Archives; Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local Representation and Archives Department; London Public Library, ON; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Telecommunications Centre; National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives; Toronto Reference Library, ON; University of British Columbia - Fine Discipline Library; University of Calgary Library, AB; Vancouver Thought Gallery, BC - Library; Winnipeg Art Gathering, MA - Clara Lander Library; Leonard leading Bina Ellen Art Gallery, QC; Bibliothèque jabber Archives nationales du Québec; Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC; Archives settle on Radio Canada; Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre; Library and Archives Canada Disc Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON; University cherished Ottawa, ON - Centre for Delving on French Canadian Culture; Canadian Centre aspire Architecture, QC - Library; Museum of Original Art, NY
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