Jennifer Lefort
Jennifer Lefort is an artist based in Gatineau (Qc) Canada.
Education
Jennifer Lefort holds an Honours BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from York University in Toronto which she received 2006. She is the recipient of the prestigious Joseph Plaskett Foundation Award, an advancement/travel grant she used to further her research in Berlin, Germany. Some acquisitions of Lefort’s work include the Musée National du Québec, Aldo Group, Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abbott, Hydro-Quebec and more.
Work
Jennifer Lefort's painting explores approaches to abstraction in terms of the manipulation of colour, narrative and sensation.[1] The artist decomposes objects found in everyday life to exploit their material qualities and paint them to recompose them otherwise.[2]
The artist won many awards for her work of which include the Royal Bank of Canada Painting Award (Semi-finalist, 2007); Joseph Plaskett Foundation Award (2005), the Graduate Development Fund (2005), the Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award (2005), the York University Entrance Scholarship (2004), the Henry Mills Prize (2002), the Heinz Jordan Painting Prize (2001).
Exhibitions
Solo
- "Make-Believe," at Parisian Laundry in Montreal (2010),
- "After Berlin" at Parisian Laundry in Montreal (2007),
- "Spots & Fabulisms," at Drabinsky Gallery in Toronto (2006),
- "Pretend You’re Here, Galerie Trois Points" (2006),
- "Juicy" at Galerie Trois Points in Montreal (2004),
- "The Systematic Arrangement of Pretty," at SKOL Centre des arts actuels in Montreal (2004),
- "Titillation," at Maison de la culture NDG, Montreal (2003),
- "Lined Sofa A Salon of New Work" in Montreal (2002),
- "Candy & Tar," at Annexe Belgo in Montreal (2002).
Bibliography
- Jennifer Lefort wins the Joe Plaskett Award
- Des genealogies qui parlent
- York Visual arts grad student Jennifer Lefort wins $25,000 award
- Small Comets, Gary Michael Dault, The Globe and Mail, September 3, 2005 pR9
- Meredith Carruthers and Jeanie Riddle, After Berlin, Exhibition catalogue, 2007.
- Le legs de Gaucher, Jérôme Delgado, La Presse, July 27, 2002 pD12
- A fitting Tribute, Henry Lehmann, The Gazette, July 20, 2002 pI3
- Personalities mesh, Kevin D’Abramo, The Concordian, March 27, 2002 p9
- Jennifer Lefort: Abstraction feinte