Description
Artist: Heidi Taillefer
Title: Old School
Size 8" x 10"
Oil on Panel
I was born in 1970 and have lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec, all my life. As a child, I attended weekly art classes at the La Palette art school in Beaconsfield, Quebec, focusing on watercolour and various mediums. By the early ’90s, I began working as a commercial illustrator in tandem with my fine art projects. Still, by 2004 I devoted my full time to fine art, exhibiting internationally in both gallery and museum venues.
My paintings often depict subjects comprised of seemingly incongruous objects characterized as symbolic, which form a complex composite of elements and add a contemporary spin to often classical icons. My work highlights our growing hybridization with technology, in which I depict “machine-like” constructions. My approach is to infuse primordial aspects of the human condition into these hybridized humans and animals. It seeks to remind the viewer of the inescapable nature of our being despite our increasing merger with technology.