CAREER SUMMARY
 

 Yvette Froment was born and raised near Montreal, Canada. She did studied Arts at the University of Montreal in the late seventies. She has been exhibiting since the early eighties.

 Since the beginning of her artistic career in 1977, she has always been faithful to realistic figuration.

 Her works explored such themes as the environment, the world of children, the working world, architectural ornamentation, stone textures… She is so talented that she can realize a portrait as well as a landscape or make an analogy between flowers and animals. She is renowed for her objective description of situations or scenes which are, in one sense, taken from life, yet differ from a mere quasi-photographic image, due to her careful organization of space. To quote a important french art historian, Gérard Xuriguera, in Les Figurations de 1960 à nos jours:

« Yvette Froment faithfully reconstruct daily reality, with an apprehension which is more ecological than urban. Her work is truly voyeuristic exercice, rendered with startling accuracy, and goes just to the edge of trompe-l’œil. But this reality holds a trap : by the use of subtle framing, she isolates areas and situations with a certain low-angled light, revealing through an abundance of imperceptible nuances that the banal is never banal. »

The composition of these high-realistic paintings is achieved through superimposition of details, repetitions of images, fragments or zoom effects on parts of the image. This technique creates an environment or setting in which the element of framing within the work itself sometimes can almost bring the medium of painting closer to sculpture.

 Among the most prominent of her exhibitions have been;
- the Salon Comparaison in Paris, France in 1990 and 1992
- a travelling show in Japan, during the whole year 1993, of realistic works from the 1992 Salon Comparaison, organized by the Nippon Television Network.

Her main one woman exhibitions have been :
- Galerie Art et style, Montréal, Canada, 1980
- Galerie Dominion, Montréal, Canada, 1982 and 1985
- Maison de la culture Côte-des-neiges, Montréal, Canada, 1986
- Centre d’Arts Orford, Qc., Canada, 1986
- Maison des étudiants canadiens, Paris, France, 1990
- Galerie Grey, Cannes, France, 1990
- Musée de Charlevoix, Qc., Canada, 1996
- Centre des arts de Shawinigan, Qc, Canada, 1998
- Centre Henri-Lemieux, Ville LaSalle, Qc., Canada, 1998
- Maison Blanchette, Cap Rouge, Qc., Canada, 2000

She has also participated in over forty group shows in Montréal, in the main cities of the Province of Quebec, Toronto, Calgary, Paris and Beaumont in France, Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, Miami and Boca Raton in USA.

She is also well known as an illustrator. More than 30 of her paintings have been used to illustrate books, calendars, postcards, among them, Sélection du Reader’s Digest, (french edition in 1990 and english canadian edition in 1991).

She is represented in many corporate and public collections. She was commissionned for some works by the Quebec government and by Via Rail Canada. Her paintings are in private collections in USA, France, Switzerland, and all over Canada.

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