Emile SHAMIE’s Visualized Worlds_VERNISSAGE 15 june
“Whatever is realized in a painting travels through me. I am just the medium. I have no control over the process. I never know how my paintings will turn out.” Emile Shamie
Point Rouge Gallery is pleased to present VISUALIZED WORLDS: inaugural viewing of the works of Montreal Artist Emile SHAMIE on canvas and paper – June 15 to 25, 2011.
Born in Montreal, Emile Shamie’s journey from businessman to artist has unfolded with intense devotion not unlike the inspired works he creates in his Saint-Henri studio. A sucessful business owner for four decades, Shamie was entrenched in high-pace, competitive world of fashion. All the while, precious breathing space came in time spent painting, drawing and studying art. With a lifetime’s inspiration from dance, music and the martial arts, the transition to full-time artist became complete seven years ago upon selling his business. With a fresh approach to his canvas and with a finely tuned sense of balance and control, Emile Shamie has humbly embarked on a second career as Artist.
More about the Artist from John K. Grande
In a high-tech world, the paintings of Emile Shamie are like a breath of fresh air. Inspired by music, by dance and an intuitive and instinctive sense, Emile Shamie envisions paintings are actualizations of the gestural act of painting. While these paintings look surreal and otherworldly, they are in fact very many songs for the earth and of our place therein.
A free expression of the human spirit, Emile Shamie’s paintings do not catalogue, categorize, or codify. Instead this is the human spirit on a walk, moving through its invented universe. We see women whose backs are exposed, who become part of mountains and indeed are the landscape. Other women are goddesses, or nymphs or Mother Earth herself. We see rivers and valleys and skies that are parts of an inner world, but a world we can all identity with.
As works of art on paper Emile Shamie’s are passionate expressions of a full range of human emotions from reflection to confidence, to passion, to tranquility. It is as if the artist were examining, studying and embracing everything he sees from a distance, the distance being psyche’s dance with love. The body is landscape, and the landscape is in the body. Art becomes a potential embodiment of that universe where armor and psyche are in harmony.
Emile Shamie is a painter who loves life, nature and all that’s in it – pure and simple. His paintings express with honest simplicity, the joy that is life itself.
