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KICKFLIP - Skateboard Art Exhibition

My intrigue with Skateboarding most definitely started with Bart Simpson, but I remember being about 10 or 11 years old when me and a friend of mine were just standing in the school yard and staring at this older kid doing Wall-Ride tricks with his giant 1980s skateboard, and I was immediately sold. I knew right then and there that skateboarding would be my sport, and for the most part, many of the best parts of my youth were spent with a skateboard by my side or underneath my feet. To me, Skateboarding is one of the most artistic sports, there are no real rules, only potential as to what you can create with the environment that you are given, and this is my approach to life in general. This concept was very appealing to me, a boy who has been drawing and banging on musical instruments since the age of 3, and who was getting sick of Baseball practice.

Growing up looking at skateboard magazines and catalogs, a lot of my earliest artistic influences came from that universe, and in a lot of ways, the whole Low-Brow/Underground/Pop-Surrealism Art movement came from that same skateboarding and punk rock scene that I grew up in. When I was approached to curate a Skateboard Art Exhibition at Abyss Gallery, the answer was an obvious YES. With this exhibition, I want to pay tribute to the skateboarding culture that influenced this Art movement and gave me such great therapy in my younger years.

KICKFLIP, named after a popular skateboard move, is a group exhibition featuring nearly 50 of Montreal’s most notable Artists with over 80 Works of Art done on Skateboard decks. KICKFLIP seemed like an appropriate title because I like exploring the concept of flipping an object from its original purpose into a new one, in this case, from Skateboard to Work of Art.

Pascal Leo Cormier a.k.a. Payazo Artist & Curator

DUO Exhibition - The Artwork

Here are all the works of Art from the DUO exhibition.

Dominique Desbiens & Bertran Lavoie

Philippe Mobidique Mayer & Julie Robinson

Matthew Belval & François Escalmel

Chloé Surprenant & Athéa

Bruno Rouyère & Amélie Grooscors

Zoltan Veevaete & X RAY(Bryan Lanier)

Anne-Marie Bélanger & Sophie Carrier

Wah Comix & Harry Corrigan

Patricia Klimov & G.a. De Homa

FranklePirate & Lucas Saenger

Abdala Kaufman & Isaac Joseph Holland

Alice Dans La Lune & Korto

Audrey Lemay & Igor El Ruso

Mélany Fay & FN Vegas

Frederick Ouellet & Catherine Morin

Caro Caron & R. Suicide

Cedric Taillon & Jeremy Shantz

Diana Polizeno & Nadine Samuel

Lucie Diotte et Bertrand Casaubon

Pauline Cornu and Martin Blanchette

Wah Comix & Harry Corrigan

Sandra Chevrier & Sophie Wilkins

Annie Claudine & Marie-Marine Lévesque

Pascal Leo Cormier & Alexandra Bastien

Emmanuel Laflamme & André Demers

Chris Dyer & Jason Botkins

Patrycja Walton & Johanne Picard

Khaci Jay & Maliciouz

Bob Desautels, Michel Pednault & Pierrot Gaudreau(PDG)

Isabelle Ducharme & Michel Von Darck

MC Marquis & Emmanuel Perron

Clockshovel & Etienne Martin

Alexe Lapointe & Pascal Leo Cormier

Edith Lebeau & Marie-Eve Proteau

Melsa Montagne & Karine Léger

Eric Braün & Maria Del Mar

Ectoplasm & Nancy Ogilvie

Jean Chaîney & Yvon Goulet

Jean-Daniel Rohrer & Régis Loisel

Reno Hebert & Robert Trépanier

DUO Exhibition - Opening Night

The DUO exhibition opening at the Espace Créatif Gallery last October 10th(2014) was a great turn out! Here are some photos of the event! All photos by Yann Meurot. (View the Artwork from this exhibition)