Lise Gervais


Lise Gervais was a Canadian abstract painter and sculptor. She was president of the Conseil des Artistes Peintres du Quebec in 1983 and 1984.

Biography

Gervais was born in Saint-Césaire, Quebec on 2 September 1933. She studied painting and sculpture at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Her teachers included Jacques de Tonnancour and :fr:Stanley Cosgrove, and sculpture with Louis Archambault.
In 1961 she had her first one-woman show at Galerie Denyse Delrue in Montreal. Her style is associated with the Automatistes and Paul-Émile Borduas.
For many years she taught art in Montreal at the Ecole des beaux-arts, the Université du Québec, and Concordia University.
In 1983 she was elected president of the Conseil des Artistes-Peintres du Quebec.
Gervais died on 30 April 1998 in Montreal.

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions