Raison d'Etre
Anick Langelier (Canada) solo exhibition

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Anick Langelier (b. 1981) is a self taught, intuitive artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. Anick Langelier began painting on a steady basis at the age of 16 to cope with her experiences with BPD. She was first strongly driven by her love for the classic painters of the impressionist, expressionist and surrealist movements. Over the years she has emerged as a true original talent with her own signature style that she refers to as “literary figuration”, and could be associated with the larger movement called “art brut”.

Anick Langelier has a corpus of over 500 paintings all crammed in the four rooms of her father’s apartment in Montreal. She literally lives for her art and only stops when she’s short of canvases and paint. She has a wonderful way of depicting strange universes full of people, existential quests, the idea of God, good and evil and the dreamy-haunting worlds of childhood. She’s also inspired by classic masterpieces like “Le Cri” from E. Munch, Goya’s “Tres de Mayo”, Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear” or “L’Angelus du soir” from Jean-François Millet and sometimes renders her own version with mesmerizing effect.

“… and it took a long time before I understood that I was searching for true and unique things and one day on earth I discovered the Bible which spoke of heaven and hell and also of the path to God at the end of one’s earthly life I was obsessed with this hell and the sublime happiness and death…” ~ Anick Langelier

Langelier has shown in several galleries in Montreal & Danville in Quebec, Canada, as well as in Geneva, Switzerland and Paris France. Langelier has also been featured in the Biennale Internationale d’Art-Hors-Les-Normes in Lyon, France, the International Museum of Naïve Art in Magog, Quebec, Canada and the Museum of Outsider Contemporary Art (MOCA).

Raison d’Etre at Anno Domini is her first exhibition in the United States.

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Opening reception: First Friday, March 7th 5–9pm
Exhibition dates: March 7–April 12, 2025