Media

BOOKS		ART ALLSORTS
Sylvain Louis-Seize		Writting on art & artist.Vol 2, 2009. By John K Grande
CATALOGUES
	Catalogue from Galerie Debellefeuille 2010 show
	Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Louis-Seize’s work at the Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC in April 2008, this catalogue features 25 colour landscape works and an essay by writer Betty Ann Jordan titled “Sylvain Louis-Seize: At the River's Edge”.	Brochure published in conjunction with an exhibition of Louis-Seize’s work at the Engine Gallery, Toronto, ON in October 2007 featuring 4 colour landscape works and an essay by writer John K. Grande titled “UnNatural Nature”.
	“Radiance”, Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Louis-Seize’s work at the OENO Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON in July 2007. This catalogue features 17 colour landscape works and an essay by writer Carlyn Moulton titled “Radiance”.	Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Louis-Seize’s work at the Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC in March 2007, this catalogue features 23 colour landscape works and an essay by writer Gary Michael Dault titled “The King of the Golden River”.
	Brochure published in conjunction with an exhibition of Louis-Seize’s work at Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC in May 2007 featuring 2 colour landscape works.	“Manufacturing Desire”, Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Louis-Seize’s work at the OENO Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON in July 2006. This catalogue features 13 colour landscape works and an essay by writer David J. Farlie titled “Manufacturing Desire”.
	“Transcendence”, Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Louis-Seize’s work at the Engine Gallery, Toronto, in November 2006, this catalogue features 20 colour landscape works and an essay by writer John K. Grande titled “Irresponsible Beauty”.

Publications / Catalogues:

2010    “ETHOS”, Oeno Gallery
2008    “ADDENDUM”, Oeno Gallery
2008    “Insistence”, Gary Michael Dault, Gallery One
2008    “Sylvain Louis-Seize”, Betty Ann Jordan, Galerie de Bellefeuille
2007    “Ephemeral Luminescence”, John K. Grande, Engine Gallery
2007    “RADIANCE”, Carlyn Moulton, Oeno Gallery
2007    “New Works”, Gallery Jones
2007    “Sylvain Louis-Seize”, Gary Michael Dault, Galerie de Bellefeuille
2006    “TRANSCENDENCE”, John K. Grande, Engine Gallery
2006    “Manufacturing Desire”, David J. Fairlie, Oeno Gallery
2005    “Human Industry”, John K. Grande, Engine Gallery

Media:

2010    Luxe Magazine Chicago edition, January 2010
2009    Canadian Champion, October 2009
2009    Where Magazine, Calgary edition July 2009
2008    Taste of the Country, “Culture Crawl”
2008    Intelligencer, “Going Out in Style”
2008    Wellington Times, “Farewell Show”
2006    Where Toronto, November 2006

ESSAYS

Sylvain Louis-Seize: At the River's Edge - By Betty Ann Jordan
En route to Sylvain Louis-Seize’s sprawling hilltop home outside of Campbellville, Ontario, we drive through the glittering, ice-encrusted countryside talking about endurance. A rugged individualist, Louis-Seize likes testing himself against the elements. A city kid who grew up in the Plateau area in downtown Montreal, he has fond memories of winter camping with his cousin on his uncle’s farm. Linking holing up in the snow with his experience of painting he says, “Nature is the survival of the fittest and there has to be a struggle in art as well. You have to show the struggle.” READ MORE...

Sylvain Louis-Seize: UnNATURAL NATURE - By John K. Grande
Sylvain Louis-Seize’s latest series of mixed media landscape paintings capture a sense of what a landscape may be. Intuitively, they bring together all those singular elements we associate with landscape painting and likewise challenge those same principles. The details are in the skies, horizon lines, foreground and background land, but each seems more like a visual incursion into the idea of what a landscape might be. READ MORE...

Sylvain Louis-Seize: THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER - Gary Michael Dault (Note: Titles are surrounded by asterisks)
My title is from a fairy-tale, the only book composed expressly for children by the great nineteenth century art critic and social visionary, John Ruskin. For *The King of the Golden River*, written in 1841 “at the request of a young lady, and solely for her enjoyment”, the scene is set in a secluded and mountainous part of the fictional land of Stiria, in a valley of “the most surprising and luxuriant fertility.” READ MORE...

Sylvain Louis-Seize : IRRESPONSIBLE BEAUTY - By John K. Grande
Sylvain Louis-Seize`s mixed media paintings reveal as much about the passage of time and the way memory wears experience as readily as the environment wears the physical world around us. There are traces of the industrial, almost a nostalgia for the sublime beauty of the industrial aesthetic and the scale and scope of old sites in a city. But all this is transformed into something else. There are traces of nature, something that offer us a hope, amid the toxic, transformed world of urban life. READ MORE...

MANUFACTURING DESIRE: Sylvain Louis-Seize and the Toxic Sublime - By David J. Fairlie
Sylvain Louis-Seize's medium is his own invention, the product of much experiment. He combines, among other things, solvents, oxidizing agents, tar, in an acrylic base, to create the rich, dark earth of his landscapes. It looks active because it is active, his rusty tones and textures result from the same process as actual rust. As he says, after he applies his paint his pictures 'go on painting themselves'. READ MORE...