Artist Monique Brideau

Clip of my show Inspired by Nature at Warner Library in Tarrytown🎨

Happy to be showing my paintings at Warner Library in Tarrytown🎨

📣Hello Peekskill Artists! Like those banners you see throughout downtown? Here’s your chance to showcase your art for the upcoming holiday season. Finalists receive $1000. August 4 deadline fast approaching. Submit your creations and/or spread the word to fellow artists.

📣This just in: My show Monique Brideau: Painting, Drawing, Collage at Hendrick Hudson Free Library in Montrose has been extended through June 28th🎉 Here are two on display to check out~

Halfway through my show Hendrick Hudson Free Library. Come check out my new work as well as some older ones, up through May 30. I also encourage everyone to come to Peekskill Open Studios to see the talent of our artists. I will not be opening my studio this time but I’m excited to participate as a visitor.
I 💗 Peekskill 🎨

I am very pleased to be showing at HHFL in Montrose again. I was a little unsure how this show would turn out, but now I’m happy and confident with the end result. Please stop in and check it out if you’re in the area this month. Thanks always for your support.

Located in the Constance Dyckman Community Room. Displayed May 2-30.

🔴 Glad this one went off to its new home today! Thank you Peekskill Arts Alliance and BeanRunner Café for the opportunity to participate in Painting, Poetry & Music 🎨✍️🎶

Bacteria Response, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 40x30”.

Looking forward to the Painting, Poetry & Music exhibition at Beanrunner 🎨✍️🎶 Painters had 40 minutes to a respond to a poem while a musician played guitar in front of an audience. I painted alongside Artist Nikah Benne. We each separately responded to Nina Belen Robins poem ‘Bacteria’ while Brian Conigliaro played guitar. Come see the results of this fun collaboration! Here’s my piece, Bacteria Response.

Monique Brideau Abstract Collage at Warner Library
Tarrytown, NY
July 1 - September 30, 2022

These pieces are inspired by landscape and living in the Hudson Valley. These abstract collages are created from deconstructing and reassembling pieces of old works on paper from the artist’s art school years. The materials include oil on primed paper, drawings, etchings and lithographs. Leftover borders from printmaking are used for adding watercolor, pencil and marker drawings that are incorporated into the collage.

Monique is passionate about this process because there is no waste. By repurposing her own pieces, she seeks to give her old art new life. This rebirthed art develops into a stronger body of work with reverence to the artist's creative journey. This is a second chance. Primarily an oil painter, Monique initially turned to collage to ready herself for a return to canvas after a prolonged art hiatus.

Brideau believes that collage differs from painting in how the image magnetically builds and comes together like a puzzle. Collage is now an outlet she uses when it’s time to slow down on her paintings. Paintings need time to sit on the wall, to breathe, before deciding where they’ll go next. The collages are the trusty builders, bricklayers of art. The paintings are the whimsical musicians and dancers of art. Brideau likes the way collage and painting feed off of one another in the studio.

Monique Brideau is a member of the Peekskill Artist Certification Committee. She is also the Artist Representative on the Peekskill Business Improvement District Board of Directors. Monique received a Post Baccalaureate in Art at Brandeis University (‘07) and an MFA in Painting at Boston University (‘09).

In August, Monique will have a show of her paintings at John C. Hart Memorial Library in Shrub Oak, NY. She recently had solo shows at The Field Gallery, The Peekskill Coffee House and The Hendrick Hudson Free Library.

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View her work on Saatchi Art https://www.saatchiart.com/moniquebrideau.