Cécile Ronc is a painter from Paris, France who currently resides in Montreal, Canada. Ronc’s painting process references back to the Chinese maxim, “Neither to stray nor to follow,” leading her work to appear atmospheric while abstract. The artist’s subtle interplay between light-volume colors takes place across a comparably vast picture plane, faintly suggesting subjective visual archetypes of figuration, landscape and narrative. By setting her subject matter between such juxtaposing means, Ronc’s paintings also feel like a collection of faded memories as each one utilizes illusion to highlight the time-based character of nature.

If Only (2013) measures roughly 4-feet by 6-feet and reveals a scenic ambiguity as pigments appear to render possible rock formations, water and deciduous coated hilltops along a trajectory of distance. But Ronc stops short of adding specific details, leaving the viewer suspended in the scope of interpretation. Oui (2013) is even larger, at 6-feet by 7-feet, but uses the hues of orange, gray, yellow and lavender that drip and intersect, alluding to flowers. A sense of stormy drama unfolds in Desert Noir III (2013) where streams of gray and brown terrace and fold into each other, transforming the canvas into an undulating panel of color that is regularly offset by marks of yellow. Le rêve de Durer (2013) recalls the naturalist watercolors made by Albrecht Dürer in the 16th-century. However the artist leaves each representation within this composition as a gesture of color.

Following her studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Cécile Ronc was awarded a three-month residency in 2009 to the Casa de Velazquez in Madrid, Spain. In 2010 the artist received her first solo exhibition in Paris, France titled Paysage sans tête that took place at Premier Regard. Ronc’s painting was also included in a groupthe following year titled Premier Regard: 10 ans, hosted by Premier Regard at the Bastille Design Center in 2011. In 2012 the artist received her second solo show at the Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal, located in Montreal, Canada. Cécile Ronc’s most recent solo show of new paintings took place in January 2014 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal. Her next solo exhibition will take place at the McClure Gallery in September 2014.