Michael de Courcy: Board with Painting
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Malaspina Printmakers Gallery 1555 Duranleau St (Granville Island, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3S3
Michael de Courcy, "Board with Painting," 2021
installation view
Michael de Courcy: Board with Painting
Throughout the 1980s and 90s, de Courcy ran a prolific screen printing studio in the basement of his family’s New Westminster heritage home. During this time, he not only created an exceptional body of his own work, he collaborated with many other prominent artists.
For his current exhibition, titled Board with Painting, de Courcy carefully scanned the ink mixing palette that was used to create some of the most significant screen prints produced in Canada throughout the late twentieth century.
He then used these scans to build light boxes and canvas prints depicting zoomed in segments of thick, vibrant, and rich colours.
Michael de Courcy, born in Montreal in 1944, studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Montreal and the Vancouver School of Art. He has exhibited in many public galleries and museums, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Consortium art centre in Dijon, and the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis. In the late 1960s he was a core member of the Vancouver art collective known as The Intermedia Society.