Name Jeanie Riddle | ||
Jeanie Riddle (born 1969 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Montreal-based artist and director of Parisian Laundry, a cultural centre and exhibition space for contemporary art. Her work has been shown in Montreal, San Francisco, Toronto and Calgary.
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Life and education
Riddle obtained her MFA at Concordia University (2005) and was the recipient of the inaugural Yves Gaucher Award. Since then, Riddle has been involved in the Montreal arts scene at many levels. Her academic experience include curating for the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (Concordia University), Lecturing as an artist at Concordia University and teaching. Riddle has also written catalogues for artists Janet Werner, Jennifer Lefort and Valérie Blass. Riddle is also a contributing writer for Next Level Magazine, London. Riddle also acts as an art consultant for collections such as the Aldo Group, The Dynamite Group and The Tedeschi Collection.
Work
Jeanie Riddle has a background in painting. Riddle's tendency is towards minimalist abstraction; pursuing the objective of exhausting the potential in minimalist forms. Architecture also has a primary importance in her artistic concerns. Since 2002, Riddle has been developing a sculptural installation practice, which has enabled her to explore her interest in spaces that women are usually left to reflect upon. Through her installation practice Riddle seeks to negate the readability of object categories. She states: "It is in the process of assembling, and of making, that I arrive at a formal composition. Trained as a painter, I was always interested in the way everything comes together through the formal compositional gesture. I am now doing this with objects instead of painting." The artist creates installations in which she negotiates and reorganizes architectural space into an abstracted site by using domestic or ordinary materials to reconstitute a space.