LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK: Rebecca Storm, Sylvia Trotter Ewens, Rosalie Gamache, Maryam Izadifard, Michelle Paterok, and Holly MacKinnon
Duran Contemporain is proud to present a selection of new paintings by six emerging women artists from Montréal in the Focus Montréal section of Luxembourg Art Week 2025. Through distinct approaches to form and subject, Rebecca Storm, Sylvia Trotter Ewens, Rosalie Gamache, Maryam Izadifard, Michelle Paterok, and Holly MacKinnon share an underlying feminist intention. Their works foreground the act of looking, sensing, and inhabiting the world from embodied and personal perspectives that quietly challenge traditional hierarchies of representation.
Rebecca Storm creates symbolic compositions that balance vulnerability and transcendence, revisiting archetypal imagery through a lens of care and self-assertion. Sylvia Trotter Ewens draws on architectural structures to explore balance and instability, transforming spatial order into emotional resonance. Rosalie Gamache examines the nature of painting itself, where representation becomes a site of questioning, resistance, and renewal. Maryam Izadifard offers meditative compositions shaped by experiences of constraint and resilience, where silence and space hold emotional and political weight. Michelle Paterok turns inward toward intimate spaces that evoke tenderness, reflection, and the shifting boundaries between private and shared life. Holly MacKinnon paints quiet scenes that merge memory and presence, revealing the subtle strength found in everyday gestures.
Together, these artists form a collective portrait of contemporary feminist painting in Montréal. Their works insist on complexity over spectacle, on sensitivity over assertion, and on the continued power of painting as a space of agency, reflection, and renewal.
Their convergence at Luxembourg Art Week reflects the gallery's ongoing commitment to amplifying women's voices in the visual arts and to fostering dialogue between Canadian and international audiences.
