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The Georgia Strait, 6-April-2009 Visual Arts Lyse Lemieux: Soldiers and Vesperers By Robin Laurence Publish Date: 16-April-2009 At Chernoff Fine Art until May15 A few years ago, Lyse Lemieux created beautiful and ambitious mixed-media installation that employed clothing as a surrogate for the human body and a symbol of creative transformation. In her new show at Chernoff Fine Art, transformation is enacted directly on the body. Read more...   Lyse Lemieux uses rubber as medium of choice By Steven Howell, Contributing Writer ThePressRepublican.com ST. LAMBERT, Quebec - Artist Lyse Lemieux is quite comfortable in the skin she's in. "Skinslips," her new exhibition at the Marsil Museum, offers a dozen and a half works that include ghostly latex silhouettes -- rubber apparitions that are pinned to the wall -- and crisp, high-resolution clothing scans so real you can reach out and touch them. "Skinslips" is a term that Lemieux coined herself to mean "a layer of latex poured onto a section of clothing or garment. Sections of the dress are layered with a skin of latex then scanned in a variety of positions." Read more...   The Georgia Strait, 4-Mar-2004 Visual Arts The Georgia Strait Lemieux Weaves Ideas Into Artful Dresses By Robin Laurence Publish Date: March 4, 2004 Lyse Lemieux Mignonnette: QUEEN of DWARFVILLE (Part 1) At the Art + Soul Gallery until March 22 In a recent interview with the Straight, Lyse Lemieux quoted French artist Christian Boltanski, who observed that clothing and photography have in common a simultaneous quality of presence and absence. Lemieux eloquently invokes this duality in her interdisciplinary project, Mignonnette: QUEEN of DWARFVILLE (Part 1). Read more...