" I am interested in the textures, colors, lines and architecture of a painting. I work a lot around the theme of isolation. I like confronting my subject—whatever it is—to a certain emptiness, a certain solitude, a certain vulnerability on the canvas. I rarely stop at a single interpretation of what it represents and what it inspires in me. This allows me to explore its poetic meaning through the choices that naturally arise as the work is being constructed. "
" My greatest challenge, as a painter, is attempting to both understand this poetry and capture it on the canvas. This process is a conscious part of my quest to master my craft. "
Anne-Marie Giroux / 2011
Anne-Marie Giroux lives and works in Montreal (Quebec) CANADA. After graduating in Fine Arts from Concordia University (contemporary dance, visual arts and theatre studies), Anne-Marie Giroux has performed as a dancer-choreographer from 1989 to 2001.
She is known for having created multidisciplinary works involving film, video, sound, sculpture and dance. The first art video she co-directed, LE TOIT, was presented in Montreal, as well as in France, Belgium and Spain (with a Special Mention from the Jury at Festival Internacionale Cidade de Vigo in 1993). Subsequently, she created and presented in Montreal the multidisciplinary works PASSAGE (1995), MODULUS 5 (1997) and AUBE ET CRÉPUSCULE (2001).
Anne-Marie Giroux carries on her artistic career in visual arts through painting, sculpture and drawing. She works with different materials such as canvas, wood, nail, oil paint, gloss paint, pencil, homemade gesso, plaster and clay. She puts a lot of emphasis on her creative process, which gives her many possibilities to translate more than only one interpretation of each subject she explores.
