Permanent collection
Cooke-Sasseville
Conciliation des contraires, 2013
Jean-François Cooke and Pierre Sasseville have worked jointly under the name Cooke-Sasseville since the beginning of 2000. Over time, they have taken part in a large number of solo and collective expositions both on the national and international scene. Of a sculptural and installative nature, the colourful imaginative works of Cooke-Sasseville, are paradoxically forms of both seduction and repulsion deploying with force through space.
Lucienne Cornet
Mémoire vive, 1996 | RÉSONANCE INFINIE ALLEGRETTO – 2007
Lucienne Cornet has an MFA from l’Université Laval in Québec City. She has won many public work of art commissions in Québec. She is recognized by her peers and the art world as a multi-talented artist versatile in several complementary disciplines: sculpture, drawing, painting and prints. Lucienne Cornet was awarded le Prix Videre 2010-2011 by la Manifestation international d’art de Québec and, in 2000, the insignia of "Chevalier" of the "Ordre des arts et des lettres" in France.
Jacques Dansereau
L'oie Blanche, 2011
Born in 1932, Jacques Dansereau was both a doctor and successful sculptor. His materials of choice were metal, wood and rope. His artistic approach reflects the trend where nothing is named but rather suggested or proposed to the onlooker.
Marc Fugère
Résonance
Marc Fugère has dedicated himself to sculpture since 2000. He has participated in over 60 collective exhibitions in Québec and Europe. His works have been shown in five solo exhibitions, among them at the Maison du Granit (Eastern Townships) as guest artist for the 2011 season. He has also produced 6 public art sculptures in Québec and in France. His work, Résonance, is now part of the permanent sculpture exhibition at Domaine Forget.
Jack Gron
Chase
Jack Gron is a professor and the advanced studies coordinator at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (Arts, Medias and Communications Faculty). He has taught art in Italy, England and Poland. His works are reflections of the times we live in. The metallic images he creates are observations of the world and its history.
Chase can be found in the Harmonic Sculpture Garden at Domaine Forget in Charlevoix, Québec.
Claude Le Sauteur - Jean-Michel Simard
Main de Maître, 2008
Claude Le Sauteur studied at L’École des beaux-arts de Québec with Jean-Paul Lemieux, Jean Dallaire and Omer Parent. Deeply-rooted in Charlevoix, he painted man’s reconciliation with nature through the use of oil on canvas, oil pastel, charcoal on paper and engraving. Although, he passed away in 2007, he remains one of Québec’s pivotal artists. The work Main de maitre, designed by Claude Le Sauteur, was executed by the stone and metal sculptor, Jean-Michel Simard. His sculptures are made from stone, bronze and copper and emerge from his innermost inspirations and from the raw materials found in the Charlevoix countryside
Suzanne Martel
La lune ou le tambour, 1996
Suzanne Martel received an MFA from l’Université du Québec in Montréal (1981). She produces artwork that focuses in particular on the notions of friction and tension produced by colours and textures. Her grouped sculptures invariably allude to elements found in landscapes: forms that recall vegetation or the animal world to which, at times, are joined anthropomorphic forms with uneven surfaces.
Isaac Duncan III
30/60-A 180 Derivative, 2014
Isaac Duncan III, a Brooklyn (NY) native and Afro-Cuban descendant, received his BFA from the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s degree at the Art Studio-Sculpture at the University of Kentucky. He has been an artist-in-residence for Gallery 37/Archi-Treasures, Toughy Herbert Park and Barbara Gene Wright Complex, Richard Hunt Studio Center and assistant to Chakaia Booker at the Association of Visual Artists in Chattanooga (TN). In 2008, Duncan opened his own studio, Duncan Sculpture and Services, where he creates his large-scale sculptures.
Bryan Rasmussen
Spring Azure, 2014
Bryan Rasmussen was born in Chicago (IL) in 1976. He studied sculpture and photography at the University of West Georgia where he obtained a BFA in 2005. He now lives and creates his art in Chattanooga (TN) where he has worked as a studio assistant to John Henry. Bryan actively participates in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He has artwork in public and private collections throughout the US. In his work Rasmussen explores themes of movement, tension and contrast. His art is inspired by things he finds in the natural world such as seed pods from plants that have burst or even animal bone joints.
Peter Lundberg
Le Chant des Baleines, 2014
Peter Lundberg received a Bachelor’s degree in both art and mathematics from Skidmore College and a M.F.A. from Bennington College (1985). He has established sculpture parks in Connecticut, Sweden and Berlin. During the past several years, in addition to participating in group and solo exhibitions, his works have been presented in the United States, in Germany, Sweden, and the Czech Republic.
Terrence Karpowicz
Cosmic Dancer, 2014
Terrence Karpowicz was born in 1948 in Cleveland (OH) and received a BFA from Albion College (MI) in 1970. After his graduate studies Karpowicz was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to the United Kingdom, serving as Scholar to the Wind and Watermill Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He has exhibited throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe and in Russia. Karpowicz has received seven commissions for public sculptures from the State of Illinois and his work is found in collections belonging to the City of Chicago, Oklahoma City, and the U.S. General Services Administration.
Doug Schatz
Reine du Fleuve, 2014
Doug Schatz has an undergraduate degree in art and geology from Skidmore College and he received an MFA in sculpture from the University of Kentucky in 1999. Schatz has taught at Middle Tennessee State University and Watkins College of Art and Design, he currently teaches at the State University of New York in Potsdam. He is on the Board of Trustees for the International Sculpture Center, publishers of Sculpture Magazine and Sculpture.org. His sculptures are exhibited nationally and internationally.
Christopher Boyne
Zéphyr, 2017
Born in Halifax, 1984, Christopher Boyne earned a Bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Ryerson University in Toronto and a master’s degree in visual arts practice from Concordia University in Montreal. Zéphyr celebrates Charlevoix’s maritime history and traditions. The work is made up of three separate objects: a single blade from a ship’s propeller, an angled bollard (a thick post on the deck of a ship to which a line can be secured) and a glass Fresnel lens light beacon. Though abstracted by their orientation and presentation, the three ‘ready-made’ minimalist sculptures are easily recognized as maritime forms.
Jean Brillant
Porter la nature, 2016
Jean Brillant is a Québécois sculpture born in Rimouski, 1959. He has been creating outdoor sculptures since 1994. Many of his works belong to public as well as to private collections. He believes that sculpture can play a role in our relationship to nature and so can music. In each case, the possibilities are rich and sometimes surprising. “At Domaine Forget, I can’t help but consider music as an element of nature just like stone, vegetation, a small animal…they are one and the same. I feel strongly that this is the best possible tribute”.
Carole Baillargeon
Pollen en fugue, 2020
Carole Baillargeon is a Quebec City artist with a PhD in Arts Studies from UQÀM, a Master’s degree in Visual Arts, specializing in textile arts, and a Bachelor’s degree in Scenography. She is known for her sculptures and installations; in which she talks about the impermanence and vulnerability of being human. She blends in visual arts with scenography and arts and crafts. In the last few years, she has drawn attention on the international scene, more specifically in Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Germany and France.
This piece emerges from the ground as if it were a futuristic tree conveying a message for all; perhaps an invitation to take a closer look. This contrasting, solid aluminium work seems to play with the natural decor surrounding it.
Armand Vaillancourt
La Force ouvrière - hommage à Michel Chartrand, 2011
Renowned Canadian sculptor, painter, performance artist and printmaker Armand Vaillancourt was born in Black Lake, Quebec. Hundreds of his works can be found in Canadian museums. His most famous monumental sculpture is the Vaillancourt Fountain located on the Justin Herman Plaza of San Francisco’ Embarcadero.
Vaillancourt is known for turning deep-rooted traditions upside down through his political activism as well as his sculptural work. The distinctiveness and technical innovations of his works set him apart. His art is inseparable from his social, human rights, and political activism. He left his mark in Quebec: sculptor, artist, performer, humanist, a man of passion, generous, sensitive, and a libertarian.
This sculpture is a miniature of the original 10-meter-high original located in parc Michel-Chartrand in Longueuil, near Montréal. This minimalist formal work stands like a wall, like a barrier in the landscape. In Longueuil’s urban setting, the easily identifiable sculpture quickly became a meeting place. At Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, the work’s straight lines and angles create contrasts with the surroundings. In both cases however, it acts as a symbol of all the social causes that Michel Chartrand defended.
Gilles Mihalcean
Androïdes, 2021
Details to be come...
Bill Vazan
Prédateur - Système limbique, 1996
Born in Toronto in 1933, Bill Vazan is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal since 1957. He has studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris and Sir George Williams University in Montreal (Concordia University). He is known worldwide as a pioneer of Land art and has received numerous distinctions such as being a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
To fully understand this work, one must be aware of its background. Bill Vazan is a world-renowned pioneer of Land art, a contemporary art movement that uses nature itself as both the canvas and the medium. The rock casually rests along a service road, looking as if it has always been there. However, it clearly stands out and intrigues us at second glance. Looking both very natural yet transformed by man, its interpretation is up to the viewer.
Jean Pierre Raynaud
La Flèche
Jean-Pierre Raynaud was a horticulturalist before becoming a multidisciplinary artist. His works have been exhibited for almost sixty years; he gained international recognition early in his career.
The public knows his work through his use of black and white ceramic tiles and black joints. One such work was given to Quebec City by Jacques Chirac in 1987. Erected on the Place de Paris, it was called ‘’Dialogue avec l’histoire’’. The work was destroyed rather violently but has since been rebuilt as a monumental sculpture renamed ‘’Autoportrait’’ and now sits in the park de l’Amérique Française.
André Fournelle
L'harmonie des sphères
The Quebecois sculptor continues his artistic journey focused on light: the light of fire, neon or metal in fusion.
Through his art, he creates symbolic signs and acts that are reminders of the uprooting and fleeting passage of time. From his works spring forth poetry and a mystical, a ‘’geopoetic’’ inspired strength.
During his creative process, André Fournelle pays particular attention to place, his environment, and to proposed themes. He has integrated his works in public art showcases and in nature, always inspired by the four natural elements (water, earth, air fire) and simple geometric forms.