exhibitions
GOLDSHTEYN SAATORT GALLERY/PARIS/ LES CAGES OÙ L’ON RÊVE POUR MIEUX VIVRE
Within the cages of these portraits,
Women are trapped by their own beauty,
Their faces masked, their eyes obscured…
Thinkspace Projects | Cages and the shadow of the colors
Thinkspace Projects is presenting Sandra Chevrier’s highly anticipated second sold out solo show with the gallery, ‘Cages and the Shadow of the Colors.’ The Montreal-based Canadian artist creates work that explores identity as a locus of competing imperatives and complex contradictions. Drawing parallels between the assumed invulnerability of the superhero and the impossible demands placed upon the contemporary individual, Chevrier creates literal and metaphoric masks by combining comic book imagery assembled from found and imagined sources. Her dystopian spin on the iconic figure of the superhero looks to reveal the flaws in the staged extroversion of the superficial veneer…
Factory TØYEN | OSLO
CAGES
MMXXI
‘’Cages and the unbearable gift of Freedom’’
A Dance Between Villains & Heroes
Triumph & Defeat
The poison & the Cure
Freedom & Captivity
The Bird and The Cage…
Hashimoto Contemporary - NYC | Cages and the void of colours
Chevrier’s inaugural solo exhibition at the gallery, exhibiting a collection of 16 captivating new portraits from the artists well known The Cages series, in which the artist merges elements of hyperrealism with well known comic book characters, creating stylized figures which speak to our own internal struggles and self imposed limitations. By juxtaposing imagery of conflict, triumph and defeat within her work, the artist illustrates the humanity within the superhero, a visual reminder that we all carry something powerful within ourselves…
MIRUS GALLERY | Cages and the Fallen Flags
The post-apocalyptic series, Cages and the Fallen Flags, comes with both a warning and a challenge. The lack of love for our planet today is not completely our fault: it was fostered by a popular culture that demanded special powers and a cape to make a change. What were just comics and cartoons as kids has become complacency on the morning commute. We rarely dare to reach outside the boxes we have built ourselves…
MOAH | Lancaster
Sandra Chevrier first Museum solo exhibition ‘‘Cages and the allure of freedom’’curated by Thinkspace Gallery at the Museum of Art and History of Lancaster (MOAH), California
StolenSpace Gallery | London
StolenSpace is proud to showcase the latest body of work by Canadian born artist, Sandra Chevrier, as she makes her long awaited return to the UK. Evocatively titled ‘Les Cages; We Can’t Be Tamed’, the exhibition will display a fresh series of Chevrier’s iconic ‘Cage Paintings’ - juxtaposing feminine subjects with comic book iconography in order to explore concepts of social expectation via the female gaze…
Olympic Stadium | berlin
Urban Nation and the Lollapalooza Berlin have not only linked a strong partnership since the first edition of the 2015 Festival, but also the common mission to bring people together with art and music. “We share a strong belief that the two are intertwined and that together we can create wonderful art experiences for all festivalgoers,” said Yasha Young, Executive Creative Director of Urban Nation…
Pow wow Hawaii
For the fifth iteration of Thinkspace’s special exhibition in tandem with POW! WOW! Hawaii, they have curated a group of just over 50 artists to act as a small survey of the burgeoning New Contemporary Art Movement for art lovers on Oahu and the world over via social networks like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook…
Urban Nation Museum grand opening | berlin
Our very own Sandra Chevrier has several her artworks on display at the Urban Nation Museum grand opening exhibition! Aside from the impressive vertical piece “La Cage entre victoire et défaite” several of her iconic prints were beautifully showcased alongside pieces by renown artists Icy&Sot, Banksy, and Martin Watson, to name a few…
galerie c.o.a | montreal
As of October 19th, 2017, Quebec artist Sandra Chevrier will present “The Cages; Between the Bars”, a solo exhibition of her most recent work, at Galerie C.O.A. The cage motif is at the heart of Sandra Chevrier’s œuvre. Made of comic book fragments which the artist collages onto her models’ faces, the cages act as masks, but also allow to peer inside and observe what they conceal. Beneath the pop facture and the flashy colours, the precision and lustre of her portraits, Chevrier’s masked models (all from Montreal) act like prisms and allow us to peer at the dance between power and fragility; between liberty and captivity…
vandalizing mario testino | Berlin
«Now that we are closing the exhibition, how would you like to vandalize it?» That’s basically what Yasha Young said to three artists this week in Berlin. Of course Hera from Herakut said yes, having caught a few tags in her career. So did Mimi Scholz and Sandra Chevrier, studio artists who have done some work on the street and jumped at the idea – Chevrier actually flew from Montreal just to fool around with these sexy portraits. Together, the three have made a beautifully tattooed and magic mess of all of your favorite iconic photographs by Mario Testino in this exhibition called “Undressed”…
chevrier x whatson | norway
A Nuart favourite and one of Norway’s leading stencil artists, Martin Whatson, cleverly combines the aesthetics of abstract graffiti and stencil art. His work brings together three often disparate aspects of visual culture, that of Classical Fine art, Graffiti and Street Art. Martin merges them together in a manner that is reminiscent of contemporary “mash ups”, but with a finesse and lightness of touch often missing from more activist based stencil work and its musical “mash up” counterpart. His distinctive urban scenes have brought him worldwide acclaim and an international band of fans and followers…
thinkspace projects | los angeles
Thinkspace is pleased to present new works by Sandra Chevrier in the gallery’s first solo exhibition for the Canadian artist, The Cages; and the Reading Rooms of their Lives. Based in Montréal, Chevrier creates mixed media works that combine sensuously rendered portraits of women with painted and collaged comic book overlays of superheroes. Manifold graphic segments and tear aways are used to obscure the facial features and bodies of her subjects partially…
above second gallery | hong kong
We last checked in with Sandra Chevrier all the way back in 2013, the Montreal-based artist teaming up with fellow comic book obsessive Lora Zombie for a Californian exhibition that was a whole lot more interesting than Batman v Superman. It’s all the way over to Hong Kong this time, the well-travelled artist on the cusp of a run of shows that will take in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and plenty more…
jonathan levine gallery presents trifecta | new york
Female figures have always been part of modern and contemporary artworks. And, representing female figures has been always perceived without any prejudices, no matter what art medium is been used. However, when we talk about female artists, the situation is quite different. During the 20th century, it wasn’t easy for female artists to make a breakthrough in the mainstream contemporary art (including street art), due to many reasons – one of them being patriarchal societies…
reed projects | norway
Reed Projects Gallery presents their second Off Site event of the year – ‘Les Cages; Beneath The Skin’, an exhibition of new works by Sandra Chevrier. In her series ‘Les Cages’, Sandra Chevrier challenges the false ideals of beauty and perfection that women are forced to face in today’s society, as they are constantly told what they should or shouldn’t be. This pressure acts like a cage, as a prison of identity, and women are often expected to take on the role of superheroes. She expresses this strong inner struggle by covering the faces of her female characters with comics scenes, while highlighting their powerful gaze…
mirus gallery | san francisco
At first glance, the work of Sandra Chevrier tantalizes and threatens to tame with its utter surface seduction; almost luring one into a saccharine sweet comic-infused sleep before demanding your attention with the undulating force of it’s deeper message. Consumed in a moment by the undeniable beauty of Chevrier’s work, a closer inspection yields the menace of superficial illusion, revealing, in a sense, the darker truth at the heart of the work…
reed projects | norway
Sandra Chevrier currently lives in Montreal, Quebec. She is a gaze collector, an idea chaser and a full time single mom. Her work takes her traveling over a broad range of fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication. Working in a home studio, Sandra produces her work at a full-time scale, aggressively pursuing a common thread until it is worn away, leaving her to begin on a new path…