Louise Markus is a writer, painter and multimedia artist. She graduated with honors in Literature & Creative Writing, 1997, as well as Studio Arts, 2001, both from Concordia University in Montreal. In 1999, along with partner and award winning architect Grant Genova, Markus bought and renovated a fish warehouse in Montreal and initiated Roy Street Collective, a group of artists mounting multimedia art and architecture events in the building. Highlights were “Bats” a Halloween cabaret and art event in collaboration with Montreal’s popular circus group; Carnivale Carmagnole, and “Tabernacle”, a multi-media architectural event, supported by Montreal’s Journées de la Culture from 2003 to 2006. Markus showed her work and managed every entrepreneurial and curatorial aspect of these self-financed shows. She initiated collaboration with notorious graffiti collective KOPS, producing “Akopolypse”, a hip hop New Year’s art event and “Kopulation”, a spring art party featuring live painting and music.
Although Markus has shown in commercial art fairs and galleries in North America, she considers herself an entrepreneurial, renegade artist. Her self-financed, DIY efforts are designed to support and revitalize communities through art. The most notable of these shows are “From the Ashes” an Arts for Art, post 9/11 event at Q.U.A.N.D.O. a famous artist squat in Manhattan’s lower east side, as well as “Hawthorne Revisited” at the Hawthorne Historical Museum in Florida. The blog, www.65chevypickup.com describing the adventures of Markus & Genova in the art and architecture world, is one of Markus’ many current projects.
For more information on Louise Markus please go to www.roystreetcollective.com and www.65chevypickup.com
Although Markus has shown in commercial art fairs and galleries in North America, she considers herself an entrepreneurial, renegade artist. Her self-financed, DIY efforts are designed to support and revitalize communities through art. The most notable of these shows are “From the Ashes” an Arts for Art, post 9/11 event at Q.U.A.N.D.O. a famous artist squat in Manhattan’s lower east side, as well as “Hawthorne Revisited” at the Hawthorne Historical Museum in Florida. The blog, www.65chevypickup.com describing the adventures of Markus & Genova in the art and architecture world, is one of Markus’ many current projects.
For more information on Louise Markus please go to www.roystreetcollective.com and www.65chevypickup.com
