By Elyse Amend The West Island Chronicle Beaconsfield’s Centennial Hall was full of herons, ducks, turtles, fish, whales, and all sorts of other creatures this past weekend. No, the city’s cultural centre was not transformed into a zoo, but rather played host to École primaire St. Rémi and Académie Marie Claire students’ artwork depicting the […]
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Beaconsfield students use art to engage politicians
By Kristin Morency The Suburban Grade 5 and 6 students at St. Remi elementary school in Beaconsfield unveiled their project, “Picture Clear Water” last Friday at a press conference attended by Beaconsfield Mayor Bob Benedetti, MP Francis Scarpaleggia and MNA for Lac St. Louis Geoffrey Kelley.
Maja Vodanovic’s recent works at Galerie Valentin
Henry Lehmann The Gazette, May 05, 2007 Montreal artist Maja Vodanovic, who came here from Croatia in 1968, operates between two poles: the absolute present, expressed in the subtle seams dividing up her compositions, and a past, directly re-collected in drawn lines.
Billy Two Rivers featured at the Valentin Art Gallery
Dan Rosenburg The Eastern Door Vol. 13 No. 42, November 12, 2004 The entire community of Kahnawake is invited to the launching of an art exhibition of the works of Maja Vodanovic at the Valentin Art Gallery, 1490 Sherbrooke West, suite 200 in Montreal, tomorrow from 1-5 p.m.
Artist paints for change
Judy Nagy The Gazette, April 29, 2004 For Beaconsfield painter, Maja Vodanovic, the West Island is both an artistic inspiration and a political battleground. Born in Croatia in 1968, Vodanovic immigrated to Canada with her family when she was 8 years old. She enrolled soon after at La Palette Art School in Beaconsfield where she […]
The involvement of the artist in the City
Nicole Blouin Press Release, Marc-Aurèle Fortin Museum Montreal, from September 25 until 28, 2003 – The Marc-Aurèle Fortin Museum lends its walls to Maja Vodanovic, an artist of Croatian origin, whose works carry the softness of watercolour and the suggestive power of poetry.
Slikarstvo Maje Vodanovic
Dr. Andrija Gvozdenovic Sarajevo, Maj 2003 Izoštrenom percepcijom demiurga¹, Maja² Vodanovic na svoje slike plasira i rasporedjuje najraznovrsnije fragmente, predmete, ambijente iz enterijera i prirode, likove – sve iz drane realnoga svijeta iz sjecanja. Oslikava njihovu prozaicnost, haoticnost, prolaznost i privid u svojevrsnoj delikatnoj harmoniji. Spiritualnom slikaraskom inteligencijom i intuitivnom nepogrešivom reakcijom razlaže i komponuje, […]