Asa Letourneau
The Portrait Show: A body of work
17 - 28 April 2024
G4
Opening Night
Friday 19 Apr | 6 - 8pm
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Letourneau continues his obsession with portraiture over the last 30 years of making art. This show covers a range of mediums and supports taking in the human face, the posture of a person and a macro look at specific sites of the body with emotional import.
Artist Bio
Asa Letourneau has been making art for the last 30 years and exhibiting since 2001. He was most recently a finalist in the Blake prize. His chief interests are figurative expressionism and work inspired by his academic career in literature and photography. He firmly believes in the transformative power of metaphor.
Artist CV
Asa LETOURNEAU
Born 1968, Cambridge, England
Currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Des Animaux and other creatures March 22 – April 6, Red gallery, Fitzroy
2022 A Lockdown Retrospective June 15-26, Black Cat Gallery, Fitzroy
2019 Unique Identifiers March 3-17, Tacit Gallery, Collingwood
2018 I’m Nobody, Who are you? March 2-16, Swan St Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Clumsy Aug 26 Sept 9, 4cats Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Human Upholstery Oct 24 Nov 21, 4cats Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Quinze Quinze May 4 27, 4cats Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 The Love Exhibition July 24 - Aug 24, 4cats Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Metro 5 Art Prize Feb 5 - 16, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Cromwells Art Prize Auction April 3, Cromwells Auction House, Sydney
2005 Prospect Portrait Prize Dec 4 Jan 22, Prospect Gallery, Nailsworth, SA
2006 Off the Wall April 20 23, Art Melbourne 06, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2020 20[2020] - 20th-anniversary exhibition of Tacit Galleries, March 4-15, Melbourne.
2022 Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, March 17- May 22
2022 Omnia Art Prize, St Kevin’s College, May 27-30.
Awards
2020 High Commendation, Carlingford Community Art Prize judged by Ken Done
2022 Blake Prize Finalist
2022 Omnia Prize Finalist
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
