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Sylvain Malfroy-Camine | Scherzo: Birmingham

Past exhibition
October 22 - November 26, 2022
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Works
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Madame Bovary, 2022 Oil and colored pencil on canvas 72 x 120 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Madame Bovary, 2022
    Oil and colored pencil on canvas
    72 x 120 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Hansel and Gretel, 2022 Oil and colored pencil on canvas 84 x 44 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Hansel and Gretel, 2022
    Oil and colored pencil on canvas
    84 x 44 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Aqueduct, 2022 Oil on canvas 60 x 96 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Aqueduct, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    60 x 96 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Crayon, 2022 Oil and colored pencil on canvas 31 x 48.5 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Crayon, 2022
    Oil and colored pencil on canvas
    31 x 48.5 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Ghee, 2022 Oil on canvas 72 x 60 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Ghee, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    72 x 60 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Outremer, 2022 Oil and colored pencil on canvas 72 x 60 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Outremer, 2022
    Oil and colored pencil on canvas
    72 x 60 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Library, 2022 Oil on canvas 84 x 7 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Library, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    84 x 7 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Wander, 2022 Oil and colored pencil on canvas 36 x 48 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Wander, 2022
    Oil and colored pencil on canvas
    36 x 48 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Meadow, 2022 Oil and colored pencil on canvas 46 x 46 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Meadow, 2022
    Oil and colored pencil on canvas
    46 x 46 inches
  • Sylvain Malfroy-Camine Cauldron, 2022 Oil and colored pencil on canvas 39.75 x 48 inches
    Sylvain Malfroy-Camine
    Cauldron, 2022
    Oil and colored pencil on canvas
    39.75 x 48 inches
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Events
  • Artist's Reception

    Artist's Reception

    5:00-7:00PM October 22, 2022
    163 Townsend St, Birmingham, MI
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Artist's Statement
David Klein Gallery, 163 Townsend Street, Birmingham, Michigan, is pleased to announce the opening of Scherzo, a presentation of new paintings by the Detroit based artist, Sylvain Malfroy-Camine. A reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, October 22, 5-7 PM.
 
The artist notes: “Scherzo is a kind of musical composition that also means ‘joke’ in Italian. In titling the show this way, I hope to imply music in the work shown, but also to lightly question the amusing notion of music’s relationship to painting, since paintings are notoriously silent.” 
 
Scherzo features Malfroy-Camine’s most recent paintings on a grand scale, with a palette reminiscent of the Impressionists and Pointillists of the early 20th century. The work also reveals a relationship to Larry Poons’ colorfield paintings of the early 1960s with their painterly dots and ellipses.
 
“I make work improvisationally, allowing marks to build upon each other or fall into a din of chaos. I mix colors slowly on the palette, read the activity taking place in the painting, and deliberate my next moves as I decide where the painting ought to go. In this way, I don’t presuppose the painting, and allow it to move by some chance and by some choice, until it arrives into harbor, freshly painted, or dinged and dented…” Sylvain Malfroy-Camine, October 2022
 
Sylvain Malfroy-Camine received his BA in Art at University of Massachusetts, Boston and an MFA in Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. A first-generation American, Malfroy-Camine grew up near Boston and spent childhood summers visiting family in France. Time spent there left him with the impressions of the light and landscapes of that country, impressions which remain with him to this day.

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