Location: Canada
Martine Allard creates compelling contemporary sculptures that evoke the significance of the women’s psychosocial environment. With expert versatility, she pursues timeless themes with personal and universal relevance. Topics such as breast cancer, motherhood, and the influence of social media, culture, and science fiction comprise her prolific portfolio. As a trained psychologist she brings a depth of understanding and insight about the multi-faceted human experience.
Martine juxtaposes reclaimed items with a unique aesthetic vision and proficient respect to color, design, texture, and composition. She transforms female forms into new symbolic identities by incorporating functional lamps, bicycle parts, computer keyboards, metal, glass, plastic, jewelry, collage, and feathers that resonate unique characteristics and history. In her hands they become artistic elements that fuse familiarity with the surreal and engage the viewer with endless exploration and interpretation.
Her robust portfolio is comprised of four distinctive series which she works on concurrently. Her “Fembots” are engaging narratives that portray the female science fiction persona, with lively patterns, symbols, and the colors of metal. For her simplified and whimsical “Totems” series, we discover references to African culture. Martine’s colorful “Pop Art” series is reminiscent of imagery from Warhol and Rauschenberg, using recycled comics books and resin on polystyrene. For her impactful and exquisite “Alter Egos” series, she integrates delicate-colored broken pieces of porcelain, picassiette style mosaic, glass and jewelry on fiberglass. This emotive series reveals her personal experience with breast cancer.
Martine’s superb sculpture “Hide This Breast That I Cannot Look At” from her “Alter Egos” series caught my attention, and I selected it for “The Healing Power of ART: Resilience” juried exhibition. I was immediately captivated by how she approached a sensitive topic with innovation, vulnerability, and empathy. It is a profound reflection of courage and resilience and statement about the healing power of art.
Renee Phillips, Director and Curator, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY.,USA
Fembots dive into a different artistic world, the steampunk universe. By giving a new identity to a manufactured object, such as a mannequin, which has none, my creative process is directed by the construction of a new identity. Fembots illustrate women struggles to be autonomous and free of social and cultural constraints. More precisely,they highlight today's expectations of social media as a source of alienation.
2019, sculpture and functional lamp, metal, glass, fusibles, compact discs, plastic, jewelry, bicycle pieces, knobs, computer pieces and keyboard, brass lamps, watches, plumbing parts, vintage sewing machine pieces, clock pieces, camera lenses on fiberglass, glass socle.
73 x 32 x 19 inch | 184 x 80 x 46 cm.
First Place Award by Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., USA.(2022) and First Place Award by Contemporary Art Gallery, Middletown, DE., USA( 2021).
2019, sculpture and functional lamp, metal, glass, fusibles, compact discs, plastic, jewelry, bicycle pieces, knobs, computer pieces and keyboard, brass lamps, watches, plumbing parts, vintage sewing machine pieces, clock pieces, camera lenses on fiberglass, glass socle.
73 x 32 x 19 inch | 184 x 80 x 46 cm.
First Place Award by Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., USA.(2022) and First Place Award by Contemporary Art Gallery, Middletown, DE., USA( 2021).
2019, sculpture and functional lamp, metal, glass, fusibles, compact discs, plastic, jewelry, bicycle pieces, knobs, computer pieces and keyboard, brass lamps, watches, plumbing parts, vintage sewing machine pieces, clock pieces, camera lenses on fiberglass, glass socle.
73 x 32 x 19 inch | 184 x 80 x 46 cm.
First Place Award by Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., USA.(2022) and First Place Award by Contemporary Art Gallery, Middletown, DE., USA( 2021).
2022, sculpture, vintage photographic enlarger, metallic stampings , grill plate, pump impellor, metallic basket, gold plated jewelry on fiberglass
40 x 25 x 18 inch
102 x 64 x 46 cm.
2022, sculpture, vintage photographic enlarger, metallic stampings , grill plate, pump impellor, metallic basket, gold plated jewelry on fiberglass
40 x 25 x 18 inch
102 x 64 x 46 cm.
2022, sculpture, vintage photographic enlarger, metallic stampings , grill plate, pump impellor, metallic basket, gold plated jewelry on fiberglass
40 x 25 x 18 inch
102 x 64 x 46 cm.
2022, sculpture, brass, silver, metals, knobs, watches, jewelry, vintage sewing machine parts, clock, compact discs, metallic lamp,computer parts, bicycle parts, plumbing pieces on fiberglass,copper socle.
40 x 24 x 19 inch / 102 x 61 x 48 cm.
2022, sculpture, brass, silver, metals, knobs, watches, jewelry, vintage sewing machine parts, clock, compact discs, metallic lamp,computer parts, bicycle parts, plumbing pieces on fiberglass,copper socle.
40 x 24 x 19 inch / 102 x 61 x 48 cm.
2022, sculpture, brass, silver, metals, knobs, watches, jewelry, vintage sewing machine parts, clock, compact discs, metallic lamp,computer parts, bicycle parts, plumbing pieces on fiberglass,copper socle.
40 x 24 x 19 inch / 102 x 61 x 48 cm.
Through studies of female forms, I tackle women body's images and contemporary definitions of Womanhood. On a recurrent basis, I use mannequins to symbolize the stereotyping of female bodies and I transform them into completely different designs.
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
2017, wall sculpture, recycled comic books,resin on polystyrene.
29 x 15 x 7 inch | 74 x 38 x 16 cm.
Finalist Award, Second Annual Color, Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., USA.(2022).
2019, wall sculpture, recycled comics books, resin on polystyrene
29 x 15 x 7 inch.
74 x 38 x 16 cm.
2019, wall sculpture, recycled comic books, resin on polystyrene.
29x15x7 inch./ 74x38x16 cm.
2019, wall sculpture, magazines of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, resin on polysterene
31 x 17 x 7 inch | 79 x 40 x 16 cm.
Special Merit Award by Light Space Time Gallery, Palm Springs, CA., USA.(2020); Selected artist by Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA., USA.(2021).
I have a passion for objects. I use objects surrounding me as I choose words in a dictionary for expressing myself.
“Disconnected Fembot”
“Disconnected Fembot”
“Disconnected Fembot”
“Free Spirit Wavatar”
“Free Spirit Wavatar”
“Free Spirit Wavatar”
“Disconnected Wavatar”
“Disconnected Wavatar”
“Disconnected Wavatar”
“The Heroes-Boomers”
“Living in Springfield”
“Our Body is Art”
