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	Please join Melanie Authier at her Opening Reception & Sizzling Summer Party Friday July 11 from 7-9pm Melanie Authier's abstract paintings are intense colourful journeys of an imaginary world. The dreamy new paintings have stunning colours combined with Authier's fantastic shapes. Melanie Authier was born in 1980 in Montreal. She received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal in 2002 and completed her MFA at the University of Guelph in 2006. Among numerous scholarships and awards, she recently received the Honourable Mention prize for the 9th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition 2007. Works by the competition’s 15 semi-finalists were exhibited at various public galleries across Canada. Recent solo exhibitions include This could be the place at the Michael Gibson Gallery, London (2007) and Karma Kanyon at aceartinc., Winnipeg (2007). Authier has upcoming exhibitions at the Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston and TNG (The New Gallery), Calgary, two well-known artist-run centres. Winning the RBC prize has allowed Authier to devote herself full-time to painting. She has spent the last year traveling to the UK and Switzerland and was recently given the opportunity to paint for a couple of months in Vancouver.