"The face is a sophisticated medium that sometimes betrays our inner state. Drawing a human face is a challenge for me as the presence of the soul is paramount."
– Michel T. Desroches
Michel T. Desroches studied at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques of the Université du Québec à Montreal. He is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily utilizes painting and drawing as means of expression. Since 2019, he has also been exploring sculpture, influencing his pictorial creations and vice versa, developing a distinctive signature marked by a nervous and intuitive line.
With over 30 years of artistic practice, Desroches has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions. His works are featured in several private collections and have been showcased in numerous contemporary art fairs in recent years, in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Michel Desroches was born in Montreal in 1970. He currently lives and works in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
Artist’s statement
Over the course of many years of practice and diverse training, Michel T. Desroches has gradually developed an aesthetic inquiry oscillating between representation and abstraction, demonstrating both mastery of academic rendering and the assertion of spontaneous gestures. Executed on canvas or wood, using graphite and acrylic paint, his current productions are punctuated by black lines and built through multiple layers and gestural back-and-forth. They assert themselves between the processes of image construction and deconstruction.
As emotional reading zones, faces, characters, or face silhouettes are his main subjects. Fragmented or exploded, they appear and disappear within the compositions of his works, amid patterns, textures, combinations of brightness, and color vibrations, evoking an inexhaustible number of possibilities. For the artist, it is about constructing and arranging fragments and elements so they coexist in balance within a whole. The result is an art imbued with energy, spontaneity, and humanity through which Michel T. Desroches expresses himself and communicates.
C.V.
Professional training
2024
Artist residency at Palazzo Venezia Napoli, Naples (Italy)
Lo sguardo degli dei
2012
Atelier Circulaire, Montréal (Canada)
Stone lithography
2007
Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
Bachelor’s degree in visual and media art
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