Artist of the day

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Artist of the Day, June 25, 2026 : Elaine Cameron-Weir, a Canadian visual artist (#2562)

Elaine Cameron-Weir (1985) is a Canadian contemporary visual artist known for her industrial and conceptually driven sculptural practice.

Cameron-Weir was born in Alberta, Canada. She received an BFA in Drawing from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2007. She received an MFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2010.

Cameron-Weir has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions including "exhibit from a dripping personal collection" at Dortmunder Kunstverein in Dortmund, Germany; "viscera has questions about itself" at New Museum in New York, New York; "Dressing for Windows (Exploded View)" at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia "Star Club Redemption Booth" at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington; and "Outlooks: Elaine Cameron-Weir" at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York. In 2023, Cameron-Weir was also commissioned by the Celine Art Project to create a sculpture for Celine's Miami Flagship store.

In her practices, Elaine Cameron-Weir grapples with questions of individual and collective human survival, while also considering the potential for renewal and transformation in states of being and forms of knowledge. Her work is informed by belief systems that structure how people make sense of and meaning in the world, from science and religion to nationalism. Symmetry, sleekness, and industrial materials define Cameron-Weir's sculptures. Her sculptures incorporate objects repurposed from their scientific, medical, military, or faith-giving function into reliquaries or representations of larger systems of belief and power. Materials can also be ephemeral, incorporating heat, light and scent, suggesting transformative processes. Cameron-Weir’s integration of scents into her artwork often calls upon their meanings in a greater cultural memory, choosing scents such as frankincense, labdanum, and myrrh, that evoke rich histories, ritual, and myth.

Cameron-Weir has an established parallel writing practice in step with her artworks. Her writing often serves as a preparatory sketch, poetic prose or found “raw text” culled from various sources, establishing a source from which the artworks and often their titles, spring forth from.

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Ms. Elaine Cameron-Weir

Venus anadyomene, 2014

Chair for Repose, 2016

Costume, 2016

Costume (detail), 2016

Snake with sexual interest in own tail, 2016

Dressing for altitude, 2017

Lamp with Garment (left) / Vault (right), 2017

Viscera has questions about itself, 2017

A toothless grin. A star expansion! Globe of death. A graveyard orbit, 2018

Untitled, 2018

Untitled (detail), 2018

Untitled (detail), 2018

dreams of wires always in a scatter radar memoir, 2019

Half-dressed like a state of mind a ghost is a garment

worn by a house until it rots off, 2019

Right Hand Left Hand, Grinds a Fantasizer’s Dust installation view, 2021

Right Hand Left Hand, Grinds a Fantasizer’s Dust, 2021

Right Hand Left Hand, Grinds a Fantasizer’s Dust (detail), 2021

Low Relief Icon (Figure 1), 2021

Dressing for Windows: Dressing for Altitude / Dressing for Pleasure, 2022

Exploded View- Dressing for Windows, 2022

Crucifix Duo, 2023

Is pupil of couture / 4 horsemen hairshirt, 2023

The pest of affectation: fleas have fleas, 2024

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Artist of the Day, June 24, 2026 : Narcisse Poirier, a Québec artist, painter (#2561)

Bonne fête Québec!

Narcisse Poirier (1883 –1984) was a Quebec artist. He was born in Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Quebec and moved to Montreal, where he studied at the Monument-National. He continued his studies in art at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1922, one of Poirier's works, La vieille maison d’Henri IV was purchased by the Quebec government. His paintings were shown at the Royal Canadian Academy and later at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and he participated in a number of shows with the sculptor Alfred Laliberté. In 1932, his work Le temps des sucres received first prize at a show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Poirier painted a number of religious paintings which can be found in churches at Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Saint-Eustache, Montreal and Rivière-du-Loup. His landscapes, painted in a traditional style, usually take as their theme the countryside of Quebec.

In 1975, Poirier exhibited works at the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.

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