About The Artist – Monique Levac

Monique Levac was born in the countryside of Les Cèdres, Quebec (approximately 45 miles west of Montreal). She has always had an interest and a passion toward art.
During her  youth, she enjoyed investing her energies in drawing, colouring and sculpting (clay, soap, plaster).

During her teenage years, her parents recognized her emerging talents in sculpture and they took her on a 10 hour drive up into the Gaspesie region of Quebec, along the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, to visit the renown Sculpting community of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. It was there that she witnessed first-hand, the community’s accomplished artists as they carved their figurative sculptures in wood.

In 1979, the artist met her husband-to-be, Jonathan. Soon after, she and Jonathan visited an artist in the Granby area of Quebec, where she began to learn and master the art of sculpting in wax.

Following an eight-month solo-sojourn throughout Europe, to view first-hand the works of the Great Masters (Michelangelo, Rodin, Claudel and Da Vinci), she settled for a period of time in Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania where she worked with established Porcelain artists, Vicki and Chuck Oldham.

In 1983, the artist moved with her husband to her home Province of Quebec and settled into Montreal.

In 1986, Ms. Levac studied under four established artists/sculptors, Sylvia Lefkowicz, Arto Tchmakian, George DeliGeorges, and Donald Liardi. In 1987, the artist collaborated with Karl Rehm and his Foundry (located in Namur, Québec) producing her first series of molds and castings, and transforming her wax figures into Bronze.

Also in 1987, the artist presented her first series of completed Figurative bronze sculptures to Montreal’s Dominion Gallery, where her pieces were enthusiastically accepted, displayed and sold through the directorship of Monsieur Michel Moreault, the curatorship of Monsieur Carlo Biferali, and the support of key staff member Mr. Michael Barnwell.

During this period of time (1987-1991), The Dominion Gallery also loaned the artist’s work entitled. “Liberation,” to the Musée Laurier (located in Arthabaska, Quebec).

In 1991, the artist put her sculpting on hold, so that she could turn her time and attention towards raising her newly born son. The Dominion Gallery continued to display and sell her artwork up until the year 2000, when the Gallery was sold.

Recently, the artist returned to her passion of creating figurative bronze sculptures using the Lost Wax technique, expressing the life and vitality of the Human Spirit through her creations. In 2016, she brought several of her pieces to the Foundry where her latest series of sculptures have been bronzed and patinated.

Both recent and previous works of fine art created by the artist, Monique Levac, are now available for viewing and purchase, in limited editions of 12 or less.