Philippe Pallafray
French, 1965
Philippe Pallafray integrates polished stainless steel with natural and man-made materials, taming and playing with light and shadow to create provocative indoor and outdoor sculptures. With rifts, fissures, and empty spaces, Philippe Pallafray simulates the effect of transparency by playing with light reflecting off the edge of metal. In his outdoor work, he uses the sun reflecting off stainless steel and the mirrored images of the surroundings to recreate landscapes. Composing sculptures with different elements separated by gaps, Pallafray highlights the contrast between natural and industrial forces, creating a provocative juxtaposition between nature as reflected in the polished metal elements, and the mechanical forces of the segments that trap it.
He is a member of the Sculptors Society of Canada and of the Conseil des métiers d'art du Québec. Pallafray worked for 15 years in fine arts in France before immigrating to Canada. In 2005, he established a studio on Île d'Orléans, Québec.
Pallafray has exhibited in the United States, in France and in Canada at the John B. Aird Gallery, the Artist Project Toronto, Alliance Française de Toronto and the McMichael Canadian Collection. In 2016, he was artist-in-residence at Saint-Georges de Beauce, where he was commissioned to create the sculpture Aquagraphie. Pallafray’s work is held in private and public collections in North America and France.
Pallafray is represented exclusively by Oeno Gallery.
