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🔴 Vendu–Sold 2026 | Esse remercie chaleureusement les artistes et les galeries de leur généreuse collaboration à cette 17e édition de l’encan. Cet évènement n'aurait pas été possible sans leur soutien !
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Esse wishes to express its sincere gratitude to all participating artists and galleries for their generous collaboration to this 17th edition of the auction. This event wouldn't have been possible without their support!
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Merci à | Thanks to : Olga Abeleva, Edmund Alleyn, Sara A.Tremblay, Lorna Bauer, Manuel Bisson, Marie-Claire Blais, Catherine Desroches, Evergon, Nadine Faraj, Beth Frey, Allie Gattor, Surabhi Ghosh & Patrick Howlett, Paul Hardy, Dil Hildebrand, Chris Kline, Karen Kraven, Suzy Lake, Yen-Chao Lin, Jacinthe Loranger, Caroline Mauxion, Aaron McIntosh, Malik McKoy, Maddie McNeely, Gilles Mihalcean, François Morelli, Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Adrian Norvid, Bea Parsons, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Yann Pocreau, Alberto Porro, Brian Rideout, Guillaume Simoneau, Bronson Smillie, Derek Sullivan, Andrea Szilasi, Eve Tagny, Swapnaa Tamhane, Paras Vijan, Emma Welch, Irene F. Whittome, Shaheer Zazai
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Merci à | Thanks to : Anna Zorina Gallery, april april, Blouin Division, Bradley Ertaskiran, Chiguer art contemporain, Christie Contemporary, Cooper Cole, ELLEPHANT, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Galeries Roger Bellemare & Christian Lambert, Galerie Simon Blais, McBride Contemporain, mfc-michèle didier, Pangée, Patel Brown, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Tatjana Pieters, TIAN Contemporain, Towards Gallery, Zalucky Contemporary
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📸 : Alain Beauschene

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DIBUJOS.
Publicación destinada a la difusión del dibujo contemporáneo ideado por @alexromero3000 publicado por @mixedmedia.press y curado@por @alvaroverduzcoartist .
Son 50 artistas y solo es dibujo, sin texto o justificación ya que la justificación misma es la de saber que la libertad y humanidad de todxs está en poder tomar un lápiz y papel y hacer lo que se nos viene en gana.

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El proyecto comunitario desarrollado por Lucía Vidales durante su residencia, consistió en un taller de dibujo y pintura en el que los participantes exploraron imágenes sobre naturaleza, historia y cultura de Río Grande. Luego estos elementos se integraron en un mural que fue realizado entre la artista y los estudiantes en el Plantel 40 del COBAO en Río Grande.

📷 @m_vinalay

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Another photo collection of the July-residence group. Photos are taken during an intern Open Studio.
@bethisms
@linepainterj
@noorfromthewalll
@gina__hunt
@amandathatch

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🔴 Vendu–Sold 2026 | Lot 10
Beth Frey, Self-portrait as an attempt (ad infinitum), 2025
@bethisms
@mcbridecontemporain

“Cette œuvre est tirée de ma série Self-portrait (2025), dans laquelle les images ne me ressemblent en rien. J’utilise plutôt l’autoportrait comme un cadre conceptuel ; en identifiant les pièces comme telles, cela prend la forme d’une performance.”
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“This piece is from my 2025 Self-portrait series. The image bears no likeness to me. Instead, I use the self-portrait as a conceptual framework; by identifying the piece as such, it becomes rendered as a performance.”

#EncanEsse #BYDealers #EncanVirtuel #Art #Auction

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Beth Frey’s watercolors invite viewers into a vibrant and aqueous world populated by what the artist describes as “beautiful failures”: cartoonishly grotesque beings suspended between joy and unease, innocence and perversity, attraction and discomfort. Hovering between abstraction and representation, these figures often appear fluid, blobby, and transformed, resisting fixed identities while embracing contradiction. 
Rendered through layers of luminous color and expressive mark-making, Frey’s paintings use humor and the grotesque as strategies to challenge expectations surrounding gender, beauty, and selfhood. The works are visually seductive yet emotionally elusive, occupying a space that cannot be easily categorized. 
Part of an ongoing process of translation within the artist’s broader practice, these watercolors emerge from a dialogue between drawing, language, and digital imagery before returning to the handmade intimacy of paint on paper. The result is a series of works that are playful, disorienting, and deeply human, offering a world where imperfection becomes a source of possibility rather than limitation.

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Meet the residents:
Beth Frey (Canadá, 1980) @bethisms
James Casebere (USA, 1953) @jamescasebere
Lucia Vidales (México, 1986) @lucia_vidales

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👋🏽🗑 2025
1) Enfant de 44 ans
2) JAN - “Bijuriya” @pushfestival @musiconmain + @collideentertainment video shoots, with @vladimir.bodypaint @keithtrevorfernandez
3) FEB - JUNO nomination for Classical Composition of the Year (+ overkill promo in my hometown)
4) FEB - Sortie de ma chanson “Problematic Fantasy” feat. @da_bigsissy @gab.ledoux
5) FEB - ¡Némangerie mâchée! collaboration entre @phthensemble et @bethisms
6) MARCH - Première de “Gulabrr” au @festival_filmsurlart
7) APRIL - Mini Euro Tour of “Anthropologies imaginaires” in Graz @openmusic_graz and Darmstadt zugehören (📸 @mircolilge) + Vienna vacay with @pneudorf
8) MAY - Drag marathon Queer Prom @etceteradawson @monday._.mundanes, Slaysians, fundraiser for @geordietheatre and @ara_ossy’s show
9) JUNE - There was a fire in the studio next door which resulted in significant water damage for us. Suivi des procédures d’assurances pour des mois avec la patience et le travail de @lsas80 @pneudorf
10) JUNE - Changement de comptoirs de cuisine + peinture
11) JULY - Costume intensive with @maryanna.chan.art
12) JULY - Felt fortunate I could navigate the Pride 2025 debacle with @jhalakmtl @mx.masala @keithtrevorfernandez @mrtrinketpresents (and others not in picture!)
13) AUG - “Curry’s a Mix” music video launch
14) SEPT - Space Wedding de @sopranoise + @jamesocallaghancomposer (📸 @claytonkennedy.art)
15) SEPT - House band au 15e anniversaire de la coop d’habitation @cerclecarre36 avec @gulhivers, Jérémie, Benoît, @damianbir, @pbottas_composer, @daiglemarion, Marilyne et Sy
16) OCT - Performance of my piece “Wanmansho” with @nac.orch.cna @nac.cna conducted by @alexander_shelley
17) NOV - my short film “Gulabrr” at @unerhoert.musikfilmfestival in Hamburg
18) NOV - Epic “Bijuriya” Ontario tour with @vladimir.bodypaint and @keithtrevorfernandez at @ptbopublicenergy + @buddiesinbadtimes
19) WINTER - End of year frustrations with STM strikes and too few people masking in intercity transit despite everyone factually and knowingly being sick. Tsé je comprends mais aussi je comprends juste pas.
20) DEC - New Year’s Eve with @pneudorf

Enwèye 2026!

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Alors que nous nous apprêtons à entamer la nouvelle année, nous souhaitions prendre un moment pour remercier les artistes talentueux qui ont collaboré avec nous en 2025. Cette année a été marquée par de belles rencontres et de nouveaux projets. C’est avec enthousiasme que nous débutons 2026.

N’oubliez pas de vous inscrire à notre infolettre (lien en bio) afin de découvrir tous les détails de notre programmation future. Nous avons hâte de vous retrouver l’année prochaine !

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As we prepare to welcome the new year, we would like to take a moment to thank the talented artists who collaborated with us throughout 2025. This year was filled with meaningful encounters and new projects and we look ahead to the coming year with enthusiasm.

Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter (link in bio) to discover all the details of our 2026 program. We look forward to seeing you in the new year!

1. Scatter like Seeds - David Hanes & Alice Zerini-Le Reste
@davidhanes.info
@lereste.lereste

2. Hidden in Plain Sight - Yves Tessier
@yves.tessier

3. In Fitzca’s Pond - Matt Shane
@therealmattshane

4. Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk - Laura Findlay, Laura Hudspith, Laurel Rennie
@lauracfindlay
@laura.hudspith
@laurelhrennie

5. kiyânaw - Bea Parsons
@bean_parsnips

6.Autoeffigies - Beth Frey
@bethisms

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#recap2025 #mcbridecontemporain #belgoart

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This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time now, but I never quite knew how to articulate it (because we all know that social media is where nuance goes to die). Some of you have probably wondered why I haven’t posted any of my weirdo sentientmuppetfactory content for a long time. The short answer is, “Well, it’s complicated.” Aligning oneself as “pro-AI” or “anti-AI” feels reductive here, but the rise of slop and ethical and ecological implications of AI usage have all started to weigh down on me and I struggled to continue to have my name associated with AI as its place in our lives became increasingly dystopian. Additionally, as a visual artist whose practice predates my usage of AI tools, I felt like this experience broke my brain, made me doubt my own abilities, fizzled up my already minuscule attention span. This is not a forever good-bye; I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing here with this account and my creations. AI isn’t going anywhere, and I still believe we need to develop an AI literacy and that artists have an opportunity to use this powerful tool to challenge conventional modes of thinking because the bad guys are already having a heyday with it. But in the meantime, enjoy this article by @chris.hampton for @cbcarts who gave me the space to describe all my complicated feelings and how they fed in to my latest show Autoeffigies at @mcbridecontemporain . I’ll put a link to the article in my bio for those interested. We also hear from the wonderful @dissociative_dreams who is making powerful work on here in a way that is authentic to them. You can always find me making my analog weirdo art over at @bethisms if that floats your boat. Sending much love to you all 🩷

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“When the colours fade away and I am left in darkness, I shall still sing for my own joys to be remembered” by Beth Frey @bethisms #watercolor #onpaper #watercoloronpaper #watercolourpainting #abstract #abstractpainting #abstractfigurative #figurativeabstract #figurativeart #figurativepainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #visionguides

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Il ne reste plus que quelques jours pour visiter l'exposition individuelle de Beth Frey, 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀, qui se poursuit à la galerie jusqu'à ce samedi, 20 décembre.

Pour souligner la dernière journée de l’exposition, l’artiste sera présente à la galerie ce samedi 20 décembre, de 14 h à 17 h. Ne manquez pas cette occasion unique d’échanger avec elle autour de son travail !

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There are only a few days left to visit Beth Frey’s solo exhibition 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀, currently on view at the gallery until Saturday, December 20th.

To mark the final day of her exhibition, the artist will be present at the gallery on Saturday, December 20, from 2 to 5 pm. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage in conversation with the artist about her work!

Œuvre / Artwork

𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮, 2025
Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolour on paper
81 x 60 cm (32 x 24 in.)
Encadrée / Framed

@bethisms #bethfrey #autoeffigies #mcbridecontemporain

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