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Michael Dumontier Biography

Michael Dumontier (born 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg. His work has been exhibited internationally including in New York City, Boston, and Padova, Italy. He is known in particular his minimal paintings and collages. He may be best known for this collaborations with Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber and others as a founding member of The Royal Art Lodge.

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In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

Art, Book, Magazines, School, See

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

Credit, Giving, Online, Search, Trying

Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.

Art, Play, Musical, Langlois, Making

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

Bad, Boyfriends, Drug, People, Writing

A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and learning that way. I used to trade tapes a lot. I still have a few friends who I trade music with, but it's hard to find the time. I miss that.

Collectors, Few Friends, Learning, Miss, Missing, Tape

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

Home, People, Recording, Think, Thinking

These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.

Auto Tune, Imperfections, Old, Quantizing, Self, Technology

I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.

Disappointed, Essentials, Listen, Pyramid, Pyramids, Trying

I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.

Done, Figure, Library, Looking, Research

Seth

Seth

Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Nelson Shanks

Nelson Shanks

Will Self

Will Self

Holly Madison

Holly Madison

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Che Lan Vien

Che Lan Vien

Jack Delano

Jack Delano

Grover Cleveland Alexander

Grover Cleveland Alexander

Natalie Dormer

Natalie Dormer

George Eliot

George Eliot

Donald Glover

Donald Glover