Mindy Solomon Gallery
Art Toronto 2017

Jennifer Lefort’s paintings combine contrasting colours, textures and spatial illusions throughout. Although decidedly abstract, components of the work are pulled from contemporary life: acidic and plastic colours from a digital and luminous world, isolated gestures that hover like logos or branding in space, organic forms that are neither real nor representative. The artist’s process embraces intuition and accident, used in combination with a visual language that is uniquely hers. Like a new hybrid creation, the result is an abstract space that is unidentifiable but somehow familiar nonetheless. Within these colour filled gestural works, emerges the coexistence of formalism and expressionism, structure and disorder. The artist’s paintings offer a place for speculation, fantasy, freedom, contemplation and projection.

Born in Montreal in 1976, Jennifer Lefort currently resides In Gatineau, Québec. In 2016 she was the recipient of the prestigious Oeuvre de l’année award from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for her exhibition Nouvel Atelier curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc. In years past, she won the Joseph Plaskett award, which led to a year-long European residency. She has also been a finalist for the RBC Canadian Painting Prize. In the summer of 2016 Lefort was invited on a residency in Los Angeles by the PEZ Curatorial Collective – a solo exhibition in LA will follow in 2018. More recently had a solo exhibition in Miami with the Mindy Solomon Gallery in spring 2017. The artist’s work has been featured in exhibitions and art fair presentations across Canada, in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami and Basel.