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Biography

Alcide DeGagné is a graduate of the Fine Arts program of the Ottawa School of Art. An experimental artist, Alcide combines photography, painting, and print making into integrated art works that blend the representational with the abstract. Many of the works have ironic references and often include written text. His most recent work, the “Walking Man Series”, expresses the pleasures of walking over long distances along the ancient trail of “Le Chemin de St. Jacques de Compostelle”.

The body-mind experience of prolonged, self-directed walks is a recurring theme in much of his recent art. The “Walking Man” image is a stylize self-image incorporated into many of the art works that conceptualizes the experience of the voyeur or the artist as "flanneur” similar to that found in many 19th-century impressionist works.

Education
2008    Ottawa School of Art               Ottawa, Ontario                       Diploma in Fine Arts
2004    Algonquin college                   Ottawa, Ontario                       Certificate in Creative Arts
1994    University of Ottawa                Ottawa, Ontario                       Masters in Business Administration

Collections
Various private collections

Awards
2006    The Ottawa Art Association Scholarship       Artistic Achievement Award
2003    Stuart Cranston Memorial Fund                      Excellence in Creative Arts, Algonquin College

Professional Associations
CARFAC-Ontario                               The professional association for visual and media artists
Visual Arts Ontario                             Career management and skills development services-since 1974
Gallery 101                                          An Ottawa, Ontario based artist run centre-since 1979