Dominic Besner Canadian, b. 1965

Works
  • Dominic Besner, Les Lady à Bulles, 2025
    Les Lady à Bulles, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, Le Chevauché Auréolé, 2025
    Le Chevauché Auréolé, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, Le Sillage des Muses, 2025
    Le Sillage des Muses, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, La Spiro-Fol d'Or, 2025
    La Spiro-Fol d'Or, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, Le Règne Porteur, 2025
    Le Règne Porteur, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, Les Roses Bottes, 2025
    Les Roses Bottes, 2025Reserved
  • Dominic Besner, L'Étoilé Urbain, 2025
    L'Étoilé Urbain, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, Sous le Proscrit, je suis Élixir, 2025
    Sous le Proscrit, je suis Élixir, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, Une Mirabelle en Bleu Poème, 2025
    Une Mirabelle en Bleu Poème, 2025
  • Dominic Besner, La Dame-Roi de Cœur, 2024
    La Dame-Roi de Cœur, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Les grands meuniers d'or, 2024
    Les grands meuniers d'or, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Cabinet des jouets, 2024
    Cabinet des jouets, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, The Golden Girls, 2024
    The Golden Girls, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Le Galop Rouge, 2024
    Le Galop Rouge, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Les écrans plats-scène I et II, 2024
    Les écrans plats-scène I et II, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Saphira D'or, 2024
    Saphira D'or, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Rave des dragons-mouches, 2024
    Rave des dragons-mouches, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Les Octaves (I et II), 2024
    Les Octaves (I et II), 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Le bang des mondes, 2024
    Le bang des mondes, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, The Poppy Blooming, 2024
    The Poppy Blooming, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Nuit Sans Lune au Veilleur d'Astres, 2024
    Nuit Sans Lune au Veilleur d'Astres, 2024Reserved
  • Dominic Besner, Valley of Grace Lines, 2024
    Valley of Grace Lines, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Whispers of Ivory, 2024
    Whispers of Ivory, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Le Grand Sceau d'Or I, 2024
    Le Grand Sceau d'Or I, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Royal Stripe, 2022
    Royal Stripe, 2022
  • Dominic Besner, Les Zoopsies d'Ombres, 2022
    Les Zoopsies d'Ombres, 2022
  • Dominic Besner, Golden Candles, 2022
    Golden Candles, 2022
  • Dominic Besner, Les Grands Deus, 2020
    Les Grands Deus, 2020
  • Dominic Besner, Le buste de féria, 2020
    Le buste de féria, 2020
  • Dominic Besner, La Garde des Victors, 2018
    La Garde des Victors, 2018
  • Dominic Besner, The Game of Throne, 2023
    The Game of Throne, 2023
  • Dominic Besner, Hublot au garou du loups, 2023
    Hublot au garou du loups, 2023
  • Dominic Besner, Grandes Dames Forgées, 2022
    Grandes Dames Forgées, 2022
  • Dominic Besner, La chaire-levis, 2023
    La chaire-levis, 2023
  • Dominic Besner, Le dog angel, 2023
    Le dog angel, 2023
  • Dominic Besner, Les ailes de verre, 2021
    Les ailes de verre, 2021
  • Dominic Besner, Les ailes du ponant, 2023
    Les ailes du ponant, 2023
  • Dominic Besner, Nuit de Soie des Kimonos Sauvage, 2023
    Nuit de Soie des Kimonos Sauvage, 2023
  • Dominic Besner, The Rainbow Club, 2023
    The Rainbow Club, 2023
  • Dominic Besner, Le lingot d'or, 2024
    Le lingot d'or, 2024
  • Dominic Besner, Le Miroir du Siam, 2018
    Le Miroir du Siam, 2018
  • Dominic Besner, Les puces d'étoiles, 2023
    Les puces d'étoiles, 2023Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Les cornes de vermeil, 2023
    Les cornes de vermeil, 2023Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Kim à mono, 2023
    Kim à mono, 2023Sold
  • Dominic Besner, L'Astre Sauvage , 2017
    L'Astre Sauvage , 2017Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Target Market Bull, 2023
    Target Market Bull, 2023Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Le stand d'Akoya, 2024
    Le stand d'Akoya, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Le grain d'or céleste, 2024
    Le grain d'or céleste, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Le bull d'or, 2024
    Le bull d'or, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, La nue de Nitouche, 2024
    La nue de Nitouche, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, La dame de Cyr, 2024
    La dame de Cyr, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, La brindille d'or, 2024
    La brindille d'or, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Hublot-Polaroïd, 2024
    Hublot-Polaroïd, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Altar of the Great Truce of the Masters, 2022
    Altar of the Great Truce of the Masters, 2022Sold
  • Dominic Besner, The Poodle's Nest, 2024
    The Poodle's Nest, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, Le Grand Galop Descar, 2024
    Le Grand Galop Descar, 2024Sold
  • Dominic Besner, The Midnight Ladies Lounge, 2023
    The Midnight Ladies Lounge, 2023Sold
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Biography
Besner's creative work is created by using a mixed technique on canvas. He has a preference for oil sticks and their rich palette of colours as well as acrylic paint, structural mortar, china marker and aerosol paint. In addition to these materials, he uses his fingers to manipulate and scrape the canvas. 
 
Besner was born in 1965 in North Lancaster, Ontario. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Montreal in 1992. This early education allowed him to focus his thoughts regarding the nature of the city and its components. 
The artist is entirely open to the vibrations of contemporary society which he seeks to remodel in new forms of plasticity, hovering somewhere between the figurative and the abstract. His aim is not to create an ideal or to reproduce nature, but rather to give form to the energy emanating from the metaphysics of human activity. 
The fantastic creations to which he gives birth on the canvas are synonymous with human fragility and of the brevity of life, by which he is both awed and troubled. Besner draws from the energy of the heart of the city, with its noise and fast-paced activity, which he then modulates in his painting. The characters depicted are imbued with the same sense of dizzying movement associated with urban press. They live in the echoes and the ambience of the city, which the artist depicts using colours, lines, and motifs. 
 
Whether his subject is human, animal, or architectural, the resulting depiction is always with the effect of a plasticity that emerges from the dynamic relation between the figure and space. When the subject is a person, everything is in their gaze, mouth, high cheekbones, broad forehead and sometimes merely in the slight angle at which the head is held. The overall facial expression is more than just a reflection of personality; it is a reflection of our contemporary world, which belongs to all of us. Postures, hairstyles, body language ― all mirror the movement initiated by the face and express the full eloquence of the work. 
 
The emotional structure of Besner's work expresses a renewed, richer and deeper view of life, based on line and color. The resulting depiction is the image of a world in itself, which largely transcends the two-dimensional limits of the canvas.
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