FLEURTDEFRANCE
Fine art Massachusetts Artist
contemporary home decor
Winter 2022:
- Master class on Géricault, Delacroix, Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec at the French Library in January, in Boston. Information here.
- Bromfield Gallery "Winter Works", Boston MA (Nov30 Dec18) Annual regional juried show.
- Gallery Twist, Lexington MA (Dec2 Jan2) "Illumination" online here.
- Cambridge art association online exhibition (Dec 5 Dec 31) online here.
- Center At The Heights, Needham (Nov4 Dec31)
With John Gagne Contemporary Arts on 1stDibs here
On Artsy here
On Red Dot Culture here
Artist Statement
(Because of an allergic condition, I became forced to use non-allergen products, pigments and surfaces. It made me reconsider the relationship between the artist and the art product manufacturer, and also the process of producing an artwork. For instance, the sets of ready made pigments create different color spaces and highly influence the resulting image. While desperate about not being able to "paint", I became very slowly aware that this poisoning by plastics, preservatives and chemicals was also impairing our environment. This event of a highly allergic condition led me to try and blur the border between painting, drawing, weaving and embroidery. I explore technical possibilities to renew our imagery, but how to paint beautiful, poisoned landscapes now? I've found papers and watercolors that do not trigger asthma and are safe for me, the environment and the art collector.)
I initially began drawing with an interest in landscapes and in the representation of space, something more visible in my abstract works. In drawings and paintings, I reverse the traditional perspective, using instead personal composition grids based on the golden ratio. I was inspired to use them after seeing certain structures in the trees. They are based on recent math works, for instance from Sir Penrose, who in his youth used to correspond with M.C.Escher. I am always very interested to see similar constructions in old masterpieces or icons. Digital tools help me to "weave" my works in finished paintings that contradict the usual rules of space representation and perspective. The resulting images are a new, living creation in the world, not a replacement.
By combining images of human-made and natural subjects in my surrealistic artworks, I aim to challenge the feeling of oppression induced by our times. I am interested in the emotions of distanciation or (reversely) fusion, to the world. In recent months, I felt language became dysfunctional. The art of conversation has grown fragile. Yet human words give us the illusion that nothing in the world is out of our understanding. I intend to depict unspeakable stories with many layers of interpretation.
Curriculum Vitae: recent events
On 1stDibs with John Gagne Contemporary Arts here
On Artsy with Coastal Contemporary Gallery here
Red Dot Culture here
Artist member at Cambridge Art Association.
Member of Concord Art Association, Belmont Art Association, Needham Art Association and Tapestry Weavers West.
Masterclass "Géricault, Delacroix, Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec, French painting in the 19th century"
French Library in Boston, MA
Jan 10, 17, 24, 31 and Feb 4th 2023
Cambridge Art Association Winter exhibition
Dec 5-Dec31
Bromfield Gallery "Winter Works" Annual regional juried show.
Boston MA Nov30 Dec18
Gallery Twist, "Illumination" Dec2 Jan2
Lexington MA
Center At The Heights, Needham Nov4 Dec31
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, New England juried fiber arts exhibition "Tradition: reinvented"
Cambridge, MA Oct 27 Nov19
Cheyenne Frontier Days Nov 4 -Dec 4
Old West Museum, Cheyenne WY
Annual New Frontiers National Juried Art Show and Sale
Rhode Island Watercolor Society, "World of Wonder"
Pawtucket RI Sep 17-Oct 14
Oxford Arts Alliance, 8th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Juried by Kyle Staver
Oxford, PA Oct 7-28
New England Watercolor Society "Celebrate New England"
Plymouth, MA Sep 8- Nov 2
American Tapestry Alliance July 1-29
"Tiny but mighty"
Knoxville, TN
Copley Society July 14 - Aug 20
National juried exhibition "Crossing Border"
Boston, MA
Rhode Island Watercolor Society
National juried show
Pawtucket, RI Jun 22-July 15
Rhode Island Watercolor Society
Member spring national juried show
Pawtucket, RI Apr 23-May 27
Needham Art Association Spring show May 3- Jun 3
Group Exhibition at the French Residency Mar 7- 14
Renaissance (International Women's Day)
Cambridge, MA
Featured in House and Garden, UK here
Interview in Clover and Bee here
Broomfield Gallery, Boston MA Dec 1- Dec 19
Winter Works
Coastal Contemporary Gallery Oct 23rd - Nov 28th
Group exhibition
"Surface Area"
Newport, RI
RAA&M National Juried Exhibition. Dec 4 - Dec 31
Rockport, MA
"Nourish", Belmont Art Gallery Oct 15th - Dec 11th
"Tiny But Mighty”
American Tapestry Alliance Online
Featured in The Purposeful Mayo
Interview Cambridge Art Association
Concord Art Association, MA
22nd annual France Roddy competition
Juried by Sam Adams Sep 23rd - Oct 24th
Mary Schein Fall Salon Sep 11th - Sep 26th
Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Interview The Huts Magazine
In collaboration with "The Huts Magazine"
"Connectivité" juried exhibition here May 31 - June 26 2021
The Purposeful Mayo
"Rêverie" inaugural exhibition here May 5 - June 15 2021
Belmont, MA
"Hope is the thing with feathers" May 17th+
"Art Heals" juried exhibition
VirtualBGA.org April 1st- May31 2021
Cambridge, MA
Kathryn Schultz Gallery Mar 2nd- Mar18th 2021
Members Prize Show
Concord Art
Members juried exhibition Jan 14th - Feb 14th 2021
Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont MA
Portraits (online) Dec 12th - Jan 31st 2021
Beacon Gallery, Boston MA Dec 19 2020
Art Dash 2020
Workshop 13, Ware MA
NortheastFine Arts juried exhibition: traditional realism.
Sep 26 - Oct 11 2020
Cape Cod Cultural center online exhibition "Humanity"
https://www.culturalcenteronline.org
September 2020
The James Library, Norwell MA
Honorable mention for "They don't toil" March 2020
Old West Museum, Cheyenne WY
National juried exhibition "Western Spirit". March 2020
Beacon Gallery, Boston MA
International Juried show "totem"
Best in show prize February 2020
University place Gallery, Cambridge MA
Broken beauty juried exhibition January 2020
440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY
National juried show December 2019
Main Street Arts, Clifton Spring NY
National Juried show December 2019
RAA&M Rockport Art Association, Rockport MA
National Fine Arts annual juried show November 2019
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA
National juried exhibition "Simple Pleasures"
Honorable mention for "Thunder Roll" November 2019
Arlington Center for the arts, Arlington MA. Fall 2019
Juried exhibition "Very superstitious"
Belmont Art Gallery, MA 2019 2020
Juried exhibition
The Martin Group, Boston MA
National juried exhibition "Storytelling in textiles" October 2019
The James Library, Norwell MA
Juried exhibition "Continuum"
Honorable Mention for "Mount Washington". September 2019
Newburyport Art Gallery, Newburyport MA
Member Fall juried show September 2019
Best in watercolor prize for "Death Valley Spring"
Permanent exhibition "horticultural heroes" in Boylston, MA Tower Hill Botanical Garden (2019)
Education:
MSc Signal Processing & Communications, Imperial College, London (with Diploma) 1996-1997
MSc Telecommunications, Telecom Paris, France 1995-1997
BSc Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, France 1992-1995
After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique and a MsC at Imperial College, Fleur Thesmar worked 20 years in France in the high tech industry.
Her arrival in the United Stated in 2015 triggered an ancient passion of hers: drawing. She took classes at the MFA with the studio art program. Since then, she has exhibited her paintings and fiber artworks in international and national juried shows in Boston, Cambridge, Arlington, Newburyport, Norwell, Boylston, MA, Brooklyn NY, Cheyenne, WY, Bourg-La-Reine, France, etc. As an emerging artist, she pursues her wish to share her intense emotions and change of perspective due to her migration in the USA.