Bernard Dumaine is a French artist best known for his work inphotorealism and surrealism styles and for his background designs for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and
Life and work
He graduated in sculpture with a mention for drawing in 1977 in Angers. Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early work included drawings in the style of photorealist and surrealist oil paintings. He is currently working mostly in digital media, oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing Exquisite corpse works in collaboration with many artists internationally, and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France. He has a DeviantArt which also contains a link to this Wikipedia page.
Group exhibitions
"Painting with pixels" - Cork Gallery, New York City, USA "32 bit Connection" - Museumsquartier, Vienna - Austria International Surrealist Show 2006 - Spencer, Iowa "Chimeria" - Sedan, France 2009 Energy Art Salon 2010 - Chicago, USA Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - São Paulo, Brazil "Toyart"
Collettiva Surrealista "Linguaggi d'Arte" - Floridia, Italy "Imagining science" - University of Reading - Exquisite corpses with Sally Hunter and Immy Smith "Symbols and archetypes" - Dedalus Studi, Teramo, Italy "Luci e Ombre, Tribute to H.R. Giger" Teramo, Italy "Book Launch and Psychedelic Art Gallery" The Bently Reserve, San Francisco, CA "The resurrection of the Exquisite Corpse" Artworks, Richmond, VA, United States "Metamorphosis", Ripattoni in Arte, Palazzo Saliceti, Teramo, Italy "Grand Opening", Phaneros Gallery, Nevada City, CA, USA "Phaneros Family Campout", Nevada City, CA, USA " Mainstreet Art Gallery" Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Personal exhibitions
"Séries" - Galerie Rivaud, Poitiers, France "Dreaming Deep" - Healdsburg, CA, USA
Publications
selected works in Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas
Search 02 in Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press
selected works in Metamorphosis
selected work in Imagine The Imagination : new visions of Surrealism
selected work in Visionary Art Yearbook
" Miximages " 80 Exquisite corpses in pencils
selected works in Anarchy Mag, Issue #70/71,#72/73,#74
selected works in Rebirth of the exquisite corpse by Anthony Mason
selected works in Collaborative Corpse Yearbook 2010-2011 by George Teseleanu
selected works in Eco-Ar-Te para o reencantamento do mundo by SATO, Michèle São Carlos: RiMa & Cuiabá: FAPEMAT, 2011
selected works in Artelibre - arte y libertad VI
selected works in Biomech Art by Martin de Diego Sádaba , 2013
selected works in Lithaire by Pierre Petiot , 2013
selected work in The Horror Magazine by Jeani Rector
selected work in The spindle's arc by J. Karl Bogartte
selected work in Insidieux by Pierre Petiot , 2014
selected work in Mona Lisa Reimagined by Erik Maell , 2015
