Heidi Taillefer "Muses and Heroes" at Irvine Contemporary, April 5 - May 10, 2008

Irvine Contemporary is pleased to present "Muses and Heroes," the first US solo exhibition by Montreal-based artist Heidi Taillefer. Taillefer's oil paintings on canvas and panel are an original creative fusion of contemporary realism and mythology combined with popular traditions ranging from Victorian romanticism and fantasy illustration to science fiction. She has developed a compelling new approach to contemporary questions in painting surrounding realism, surrealism, myth, and the human body in the machine and cyborg age. Her striking imagery combines painterly surrealism and hyper-realism with current cyborg fantasies--Max Ernst meets The Matrix.

Heidi Taillefer grew up in artistic family in Montreal, Quebec, and has been drawing and painting since she was three. After ten years of private art instruction, she studied art and philosophy at McGill University, Montreal, and then began pursuing careers in both fine art and illustration. Taillefer searches out many sources for her imagery and concepts--Surrealism and Symbolist painting, classical and baroque painting and drawing, illustration and comic styles, and all the recent variations of cyborg imagery. She developed a style in oils and acrylics known for a fusion of mechanical and organic imagery and the appropriation of symbolic styles, and she became internationally recognized for her creation of the image of "Dralion" for the Cirque du Soleil. Her works have appeared in numerous publications, and she has been in exhibitions in Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Miami, and Berlin. Her work has also been exhibited at the McAllen International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Texas.

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[GatoMiguel24]

Wow!

I love her work!