Lyse Lemieux (artist)
Lyse Lemieux  is a Canadian contemporary visual artist based in Vancouver. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1976. Her art practice focuses primarily on drawing, painting and installation work.

Biography 
Lyse Lemieux was born in 1956 in Ottawa, Canada. She studied at the University of Ottawa (1973–75) and the University of British Columbia (1976–78) and received a BFA from the University of British Columbia (1978). Lemieux was appointed and served for eight years (2002-2010) as a part-time member of the Canadian Artist and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal (CAPPRT) a quasi-judicial tribunal in Ottawa, responsible for the interpretation and administration of the Status of the Artist Act (SAA). She also worked on contract as a radio producer and television journalist in Vancouver for La Société Radio-Canada in Vancouver (1987-2013).  She currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lyse was the winner of the 2017 VIVA Award.

Artistic practice 
Lemieux's practice focuses on expanded drawing and drawing installation. Her materials vary, but have included textiles, ink on paper, and wool felt.  Her content is mostly abstract, but she often employs ovoids.  Robin Laurence has said that Lemieux uses these "lopsided ovals to suggest either human heads or bodies, part of an experimental drawing practice that dodges between abstraction and figuration. She has also claimed unexpected materials such as fabric, found clothing, even medical tape as drawing materials, confounding our understanding of medium and process."  Her work is known for a sensitive, lyrical line which Marina Roy details, "the viewer attempts to  pinpoint what it is about a particular combination of line quality, ink wash and fabric collage that evokes such humour, absurdity and pathos."  Her abstractions fragment the subject by separating heads and torsos, Robin Laurence sees this as a moment "created out of disjointed parts are reminiscent of the surrealist practice of 'Exquisite Corpse'." Her work has been curated alongside Vikky Alexander, Nadia Myre, Beth Stuart, Meryl McMaster, Shary Boyle, Carol Wainio and Luanne Martineau in Aujourd'hui Encore at Trépanier Baer in Calgary, and more recently curated by Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee for the Vancouver Art Gallery show Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures which contextualized emerging artists like Jeneen Frei Njootli, and Krista Belle Stewart with established artists like Mina Totino, Gary Neil Kennedy, and Elizabeth McIntosh.

Select Exhibitions 
2018: Full Frontal (solo), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

2018: 13 Ways to Summon Ghosts, Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver

2016-17: Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery

2016-17: Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver 

2016: A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do, (solo)

2015: Out of Line, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario

2015: Black is the Size of My New Dress (solo), Republic Gallery, Vancouver 

2015: In-Between-In-Between (with Meryl McMaster), Katzman Contemporary, Toronto

2014: Shaped Drawings, Something Wrong About the Mouth (solo), Republic Gallery, Vancouver

2014: Beside Yourself, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Selected bibliography 
 Kevin Griffin, Lyse Lemieux turns black felt into leaning bodies, Vancouver Sun, June 8, 2016
 Robin Laurence, Lyse Lemieux; A Girls Gotta Do What A Girls Gotta Do, Georgia Straight, May 12, 2016
 Michèle Smolkin, Les Corps Feutrés de Lyse Lemieux, La Source, 19 avril, 2016
 Anaïs Elboujdaïni, Fille fait ce que fille doit: Dans l'entrelacs de la feutrine, La Source,April, 2016
 Kevin Griffin, Lyse Lemieux uses scissors to draw in black felt, Vancouver Sun, Nov.12, 2015
 Terence Dick, Lyse Lemieux at Katzman Contemporary, Akimblog, March, 2015
 Dion Kliner, Vancouver Report: Lyse Lemieux, Two Coats of Paint; A New York Blog, February, 2014
 Marina Roy, Lyse Lemieux at Republic Gallery, Border Crossings, March, 2014
 Raissa Alvero, In conversation with Lyse Lemieux, The Portefolio.com, February, 2013
 Robin Laurence, Lyse Lemieux; New Work, Georgia Straight, November, 2012
 Robin Laurence, Cut and Paste, Georgia Straight, August, 2012
 Robin Laurence, Soldiers and Vesperers, Georgia Straight, April, 2009
 Robin Laurence, Lemieux weaves ideas into artful dresses, Georgia Straight, March, 2004