Sophie Jodoin
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Sophie Jodoin | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) |
| Education | Concordia University |
| Known for | Drawing |
| Website | Sophie Jodoin |
Sophie Jodoin (born 1965) is a Canadian visual artist based in Montreal. Jodoin is known chiefly for her figurative, drawing-based practice in traditional media as well as collage, video, and altered found objects.[1]
Jodoin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988 in Visual Arts from Concordia University in Montreal.[2]
Work
Jodoin has worked almost exclusively in black-and-white since 2004, and first showed works integrating drawing and collage in 2009,[3] sourcing images from magazines, the Internet, personal photos and books.[4] In Jodoin's drawing, the lack of objective figures gives people a feeling that there is no narration. One exception that contains didactic intent is Yesterday and Tomorrow, which consists of a series of drawings.[5] Those pictures showed a young girl wearing a white silk dress walking through a corridor.
John A. Parks described Jodoin's work as having "a rich and sensual language of mark and gesture to build images suggestive of horror and violence in a fashion that is curiously affecting."[6] In 2015, Jodoin described her works as linked to "the monstous," and that it had shifted from "themes of pain, violence, mortality or innocence despoiled" to "a sense of disquiet."[7]
In 2017, Jodoin was awarded the Prix Louis-Comtois by the Association des galeries d'art contemporain.[2][8][9]
