Mélanie Rocan

Mélanie Rocan (born 1980) is a Canadian artist from La Broquerie, Manitoba.[2] She works mostly in various paint mediums. She also has been known to work in multimedia, especially when working collaboratively.

Mélanie Rocan
Born1980[1]
NationalityCanadian
EducationMaster of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Alma materConcordia University, University of Manitoba
AwardsRBC Canadian Painting Competition
Websitewww.melanierocan.com

Education

Rocan began her undergraduate education at the University of Ottawa in 1999, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Manitoba in 2003. Having gone on exchange to Glasgow School of Art in 2005, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University's painting program in 2008.[2]

Career

Rocan's work has shown nationally in Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Vancouver, and Montreal, as well as internationally. This includes cities such as Los Angeles, Glasgow, and Paris.[3]

Besides her exhibition career, Rocan has held the Deep Bay Artists’ Residency in 2014. During this residency, Rocan worked with other Two Six member, Shaun Morin, to create collaborative mixed media works.[4]

Rocan is also an occasional professor for the University of Manitoba[5] where she teaches drawing classes.[1]

Rocan is a three time finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition across Canada before its conclusion in 2019. She was a finalist in the Western division in 2006 [6] and 2010,[7] and in the Eastern division in 2007.[8]

Two Six

Rocan is the youngest member and the only woman member of Two Six, also known as Two-sicks, a group of young artists founded in 2003 by recent graduates of the University of Manitoba.[9][10] The group focused on collaborative art and street art.[11][12]

Style

Rocan most typically works with watercolour, acrylic, and oil paint on canvas with a method similar to free association.[13] Rocan herself describes her work as "linger[ing] in between a darkness and a playfulness".[14] She takes inspiration from the Symbolism movement, which grew out of Romanticism. Symbolism is a movement in which emotions were at the forefront of art.[15] She is a figure painter, but puts more detail into her backgrounds to help tell the story of her subject.[13] She uses familiar items such as bed frames, floral wallpaper, and tire swings to evoke memories and a feeling of timelessness.[14][15]

In her work with the art collective Two Six, she uses other media in addition to paint. She makes use of "stretched fabric pieces"[11] and ribbons tied "around a telephone pole or fence post".[9]

References
  1. Rocan, Melanie. "Artist's Bio". melanierocan.com. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  2. "CCCA Artist Profile for Melanie Rocan". ccca.concordia.ca. Archived from the original on 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  3. "Paul Petro Contemporary Art -- M%C3%A9lanie Rocan". www.paulpetro.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  4. "Melanie Rocan - 2014 Deep Bay Artists' Residency". Manitoba Arts Council. 2014-06-23. Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  5. "University of Manitoba - School of Art -". umanitoba.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  6. Jager, David (2006-09-14). "Bank on this". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  7. "RBC Canadian Painting Competition Semifinalists Announced". Canadian Art. Archived from the original on 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  8. "RBC Painting Competition". www.rbc.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  9. Eyland, Cliff (November 2004). "26/Two Sicks/Too Six…". Border Crossings. 23 (4): 16–27.
  10. Ludwig, Kirk (2017-11-23). "The Distributive/Collective Ambiguity in Singular Group Action Sentences". Oxford Scholarship Online. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198789994.003.0004.
  11. ENRIGHT, ROBERT (2018-04-19). "Winnipeg's singular collective raises a ruckus". Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  12. Pashko, Thomas (2017-10-07). "Aiming too high". uniter.ca. Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  13. Miller, Marcus (2013). "Janet Werner, Melanie Rocan, Tammy Salzl". Border Crossings. 32: 84–85 – via ProQuest.
  14. Kehler, Lisa. "Mélanie Rocan: Souvenir Involontaire". Canadian Art. Archived from the original on 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  15. "Mélanie Rocan Souvenir involontaire". Doris McCarthy Gallery. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
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