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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.
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RECENT PRESS:
Sculptor, ceramicist and painter Paul Guillemette’s arresting new work is a wholly original commentary on the process of transformation. The wall-hung works begin with pieces of discarded packing wood, pressed thin and marked with the signs of practical use. Guillemette assembles these pieces in striking patterns, and then seals them with smooth, transparent resin so that they seem to be cast in honey. The result contains its own narrative: from living tree with an intricate grain of capillaries, to a cheap and useful material, to useless trash, to a rich and eloquent work of art. Transformation is central to Guillemette’s representational work, too, and the current show includes figures from the artist’s intimate history: a solemn, watchful guardian; a flying, waterborne child; and an all-embracing, Sumo-like embodiment of love.
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