Paul Guillemette :: Exhibitions

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:

Paul Guillemette grew up in Red Lake Falls Minnesota and started making art at a very young age. After attending College at the University of Montana, Missoula, he remained in Montana and continued to develop his unique and authentic style. He has shown throughout the state of Montana, in Seattle and Minneapolis, ending his time in Montana with a show at the Missoula Art Museum. Paul Moved to Los Angeles in 2005 to continue developing opportunities for his art, and to be near the Ocean.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Guillemette, using paint, collaged objects and resin, communicates powerful yet common themes through accessible visual narratives. Rather than guiding the viewer through abstraction, Guillemette relates real life experience identified in every day, recognizable forms. The work is sometimes comic, often poignant and sometimes challenging, and consistently authentic to artist and viewer alike.

In a somewhat mysterious process, Guillemette encounters ordinary objects in his daily routine that are aligned with intuitive themes to be communicated. With this, the object becomes a seed for a piece that tells a story using memories, dreams and intimate history. Working with a broad variety of media, Guillemette creates work which evokes familiar emotions in unfamiliar ways and guides the viewer to see new meaning in the commonplace.

Guillemette clearly says that he started to create art as a kid to protect himself from the feelings of separation and isolation. “It was in me, and I needed it” As a seasoned artist, he continues to create from the human conditions of joy, pain and growth. The artist believes in broad emotional healing powers of both the process and the image revealed.