Marie Schem

Through her paintings, Marie SCHEM intends to study the look.

As a teenager, I was very impressed with the look others turned on me, looks that tried to put a label on me... These thoughts are translated into dark stares in her paintings, thinking and looking being so closely intertwined...

On the other hand, colors express emotions, along with faces switching from one state of mind to another.

Thus come the faces, one after another, set next to paintings of flowers or fruits, one or many of them on the canvas, looking distant, detached from this world, their emotions showing on the surface in wide flat strokes of violet, green, pink and yellow. Influenced by her dual culture - the artist has constantly been living between France and Algeria - Marie SCHEM gives shape to her many questions.

Stemming from two lineages where origins collide into identities, she is a dreamer, a happy-go-lucky spirit, a cheerful person, whom life has forced into early seriousness. She has grown up between several countries, has come upon the Beaux-Arts, lived and blossomed there for four years. There she has searched for harmony, created icons and become a fabulous naïve master painter.

She lives altogether through superb portraits, each time singular or kindly repeated, in closed eyes, through prevented looks, in the violence of deliciously contrasted shades.

1969 Galerie des terreaux .LYON.
1970 Galerie Liandrat . rue de sèze . LYON
1970 Boutique Salamander - LYON
1970 Maison de la culture - CLERMONT-FERRAND
1972 Salon Stevie - Place des Célestins . LYON
1973 Architecture Lumière - Quai Saint-Vincent - LYON
1974 Boutique Salamander - LYON
1976 Architecture Lumière - LYON
1978 Galerie Liandrat - Rue de Sèze - LYON
1980 Notre Dame des Etroits - LYON
1983 Salons des Arts - MEGEVE, NICE, CANNES.
1985 Notre Dame des Etroits - LYON
1987 Les 2 Ateliers - PARIS
1990 Polo Club - Rue des 4 Chapeaux - LYON
1993 Maison Pernod-Ricard - LYON
1997 Galerie Art Top - Rue des Capucins - LYON
2001 Atelier Kenzo - LYON
2003 Salon des Artistes Mairie du 3ème - LYON
2005 Galerie Nuances et Lumieres - TEL AVIV, LYON, AMSTERDAM
2006 Galerie Nuances et Lumières - NEW-YORK, PARIS, LYON
2007 Galerie Nuances et Lumières - MEGEVE, SAINT PAUL DE VENCE, ANNECY
2008 Galerie Nuances et Lumières - LYON, BANGKOK
2009 Galerie Nuances et Lumieres - LYON

Rendez visite à Marie Schem dans son atelier d'artiste : 8 Rue Bugeaud, 69006 à Lyon