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Current Show: Heartwarming Art: a collection to warm your heart and your home July, 2007 Past Shows: James Bouthillier June, 2007 Pelin Canez May, 2007 Erin Rothstein April, 2007 Celebrating International Women's Day March, 2007 Velibor Bozovic February, 2007 Jesse Allarie January, 2007 Various Artists December, 2006 Frederic Smith November, 2006 Jean Francois Richard October, 2006 Andrea Kastner September, 2006 Sharon Sutherland August, 2006 Melanie Lefebvre July, 2006 Jessica Alfonso June, 2006 Galerie V Spring 2006 Exhibit May, 2006 Fire with Water (SACOMSS) April, 2006 J.M. Lougheed March, 2006 Anna Rita Torelli February, 2006 Brisa Ceccon Rocha January, 2006 Julian Haber December, 2005 Bernie Kelly Goulem November, 2005 Jenny Schädes October, 2005 Simon Laguë September, 2005 Stéphanie Bush August, 2005 Julian Haber July, 2005 Jean François Richard June, 2005 Phyllis Mintz May, 2005 Jesse Allarie April, 2005 Victoria P Wonnacott March, 2005 Kevin Nordberg January, 2005 - February, 2005 Sharon Ramsey November, 2004 - December, 2004 Jean François Richard September, 2004 - October, 2004 Scott Macleod August, 2004 |
Frederic Smith (aka. Fede Esmit) began making photographs in the late 1970's, long after a youthful stint as a communist subversive during the Duplessis era. He still carries this period with some quiet, or often noisy pride, however from time to time you might hear him say something about pride going before a fall (you can be too cautious). His life with pictures began as a trade—an offshoot of the freelance mechanical drafting he lined his pockets with while chasing down work as a freelance actor (is there any other kind?). These intertwining careers pulled him hither and thither for some thirty years, in a balancing act that often defied the prowess of "The Flying Wallendas". Smith's mechanical draftsman half worked on everything from the Distant Early Warning Line and Camp Gagetown in the fifties, to Place Victoria and Place Bonaventure in the seventies. While this was transpiring the other half started working on stage in Dominion Drama Festivals, films for the NFB, and early television for the CBC or whomever else would have him. In the fifties he became an ACTRA member and can still be found carrying his union card—just in case some work shows up. Relocating to Toronto for a period of four years in the late seventies, Smith found work with the Toronto Transportation Commission as a stringer, shooting everything from bus and tram accidents to retirement parties. Returning to Montreal in 1984, Smith the photographer covered additional construction gigs, sports events, and various other projects. In '86 he entered McGill University and earned himself a B.A. in 1990, traveling far and wide in the many years since and shooting all the while. The thrust of Smith's personal work is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. He is presently involved in a project documenting the many and variedly beautiful "ruelles" du Montréal that punctuate his urban landscape in endlessly surprising ways. The photographs submitted for the Galerie V exhibition cover the period from the late seventies to the present, and were shot in Spain, Portugal , New York , Nova Scotia, Montreal and environs. They represent a broad cross section of his work, some of which is currently displayed in the "Argyle Fine Art Gallery" in Halifax NS. Frederic Smith email: fede-esmit@sympatico.ca
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