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De Montigny Contemporary is honored to present Rosalie Gamache & Mélanie Myers - a survey of the artists’ work over the past year. Hailing from Quebec, Canada, Gamache and Meyers craft pictorial worlds at once lonely and intimate, melancholic and yearning. Though the artists differ in their methods and choice of subjects, both probe European and North American approaches to representation. In her Wettability (mop) series, Myers appropriates Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912), replacing the titular figure with a household appliance; whereas Gamache, recalling the Group of Seven’s rugged landscapes (1920-1933), dresses her forest scenes in pink - comparatively plush - hues. Together, Gamache and Myers question heteronormative ways of seeing, inviting viewers to linger in the space between homage and departure.
Wettability (Humid Window)
23 × 53 inches
Coloured pencil on grey 250 gsm Stonehenge paper
2026
Mélanie Myers lives and works in Gatineau. She has an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD, 2013) and a BA in art and design from Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO, 2008). Her practice touches on various areas of interest: landscape, reality, comfort and the middle class, which she approaches critically through drawing and installation. Provincial and federal arts councils have supported her projects, which have been shown in several galleries and centres across Canada, including Division Gallery (Toronto), Forest City Gallery (London), L'Écart (Rouyn-Noranda), and Gallery 17/18 (Ottawa). She has participated in residencies at Centre Bang (Chicoutimi) and Maison Scott-Fairview (Gatineau). Myers currently teaches drawing at UQO. In addition to her studio practice, she works on theatre set design projects.
Wettability (Yellow Mop)
23 × 53 inches
Coloured pencil on grey 250 gsm Stonehenge paper
2026
Transparaitre III
24 x 20 inches
Oil on canvas mounted on panel
2026
Montreal-based artist Rosalie Gamache holds a BFA from Université Laval, which she completed in 2018, including an exchange semester at the École supérieure d’art et de design de Marseille-Méditerranée in 2017. Before university, she developed expertise in historical materials and drawing and painting techniques, with a professional practice in portraiture and a year at the Florence Classical Art Academy in Italy. Since the beginning of her career, she has presented several solo and group exhibitions in Canada and Europe, including at the Frauenmuseum in Bonn, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Maison de la culture Mercier, the Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or and the Florence Biennale. She has received grants from Première ovation (2015, 2019), the City of Quebec (2021) and the Canada Council for the Arts (2021). With Duran Mashaal, she participated in the 2022 editions of the Papier and Art Toronto fairs.
Paysage recouvert II
30 x 24 inches
Oil on polyester canvas
2025
