Guy Tremblay Fine Art Photography

Fine Art Photography

Gallery :
  Portrait
  Flora
  Nature
  Structure
  Panorama
  Noblex
  Shanghai   Vietnam   OmManiPadmeHum

photo: Guy Tremblay

What's new?

Finally, here is my new series about my trip in Tibet and Nepal:

Om Mani Padme Hum
This series is deeply inspired by the spiritual aspect of this adventure on the roof of the world.

Biography

Guy Tremblay practises his art for now more than thirty years. Professional artist for about twenty years, he is an autodidact. He also took part in several workshops with Masters of contemporary photography such as Mary Ellen Mark, Arnold Newman and Bruce Davidson. He also much involved himself in the artistic community, initially in Ottawa with Gallery 101 then as of his arrival in the Eastern Townships with the P'tit Bonheur of St-Camille, he organized the Mois de la Photo à St-Camille during seven years. In the last years, Guy Tremblay as also committed himself with young people by teaching on a volunteer basis his art to teenagers in collaboration with the Association des groupes jeunesse de l'Or Blanc and the Coalition Sherbrookoise pour le travail de rue. He received up to now, three grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec. The art of Guy Tremblay was presented in more than 20 solos or of group shows. Its photographs belongs to several public and private collections in Canada, the United States, France and Cuba.

The art of Guy Tremblay alternates between the landscape and the portrait. He generally concentrates on a single series at once. Certain series can however spread out over several years such as its series of landscapes. He chose black and white photography for aesthetic reasons and because he controls the process from the shooting until the processing of the final prints. With a direct and meticulous style, he avoids distracting with special effects. The black and white allows him a level of abstraction from the reality which leads the observer to consider the world in a new way. Its work is sober, contemplative and meditative. It is a research of extraordinary in the ordinary, of the true beauty. It is not so much the decisive moment than the environment and the quality of the light which inspires him. In a time of the digital photography, he still uses the silver print for its unequalled qualities.

Selected exhibitions
Solo:
     1980 Universite Laval, Quebec
     1987 Galerie de l'Alliance Francaise, Ottawa
     1992 Musee Uplands, Lennoxville
     1994 Bibliotheque Municipale Memphremagog, Magog
     1994 Galerie de l'Universite de Sherbrooke
     1998 Espace Hortense, St-Camille
     2003 Galerie Quarc, Sherbrooke
     2004 Maison des Arts et de la Culture, Brompton      February 4-29 2004
     2008 Musée Beaulne, Coaticook       Prêt-à-sortir! (Télé-Québec)
     2008-2010 Installation quartier d'Ascot, Sherbrooke      Exhibition location

Group:
     1983 Galerie 101, Ottawa
     1988 CPW, Woodstock, NY, USA
     1989 Galerie Rodrigue Lemay, Ottawa
     1993 Espace Hortense, St-Camille
     1995 Centre d'Art d'Orford, Orford
     1995 Galerie Art-The, North-Hatley
     1996 Espace Hortense, St-Camille
     1997 Poudriere de Windsor, Windsor
     1997 Espace Hortense, St-Camille
     1997 Maison Amsden, Stanstead
     1998 CPW, Woodstock, NY, USA
     2001 Espace Hortense, St-Camille

Grants
     1993 Ministere de la Culture du Quebec
     1995 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec
     1997 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec

Collections
     Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke,
     Alliance Francaise d'Ottawa,
     Université de Sherbrooke,
     Center for Photography at Woodstock
     and many private collections in Canada, United-States and France.

Catalogs
     1995 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     1997 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     1998 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     1998 Friends Without a Border (Howard Greenberg Gallery), NY
     1999 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     2000 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     2001 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     2001 Photo Americas Auction Catalog, Portland, OR
     2002 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     2003 Photo Americas Auction Catalog, Portland, OR
     2003 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     2004 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     2005 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY
     2006 Center for Photography at Woodstock Auction Catalog, NY (Lot 59)

                               photo: Guy Tremblay

Publications:
     2000 Black & White Magazine, Spring 2000
     2001 PHOTO Techniques, July/Aug 2001
     2004 shutterbug Magazine, October 2004

Portrait . Shanghai . Nature . Structure . Flora . Panorama . Noblex . Vietnam . OmManiPadmeHum
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