David Bolduc (1945-2010)

Born in Toronto, David Bolduc attended the Ontario College of Art and then the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School until 1965. On his return to Toronto in 1966, he began work in the conservation department at the Royal Ontario Museum and landed a solo exhibition at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery. The show featured shaped canvases with colourful geometric designs. In 1968, Bolduc received a Canada Council Grant that allowed him to travel in Europe and Asia for eight months. Bolduc continued his habit of extensive travel for the next 33 years while exhibiting annually. In 1976, he left the Lamanna Gallery for the David Mirvish Gallery where he exhibited with other non-figurative painters working in color field and post-painterly abstraction. These artists included including Milly Ristvedt, Paul Fournier and Dan Solomon. In his abstract canvases, rich in historical references from his extensive travels, Bolduc uses curated organic motifs often placing them at the centre of a painterly ground. The artist’s vibrant and joyful colors continue the traditions of modernism he embraced in the work of Jack Bush Henri Matisse. Bolduc’s work is held in private, corporate and public collections including the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. Source