Michael MacDonald, “Award winner Jacques Hurtubise had great influence on abstract painting”, The Canadian Press, January 1, 2015
Hurtubise figured prominently in ground-breaking Quebec abstract painting exhibitions in the 1960s. The artist straddled painterliness and hard-edge painting throughout his career. By the mid-70s he returned permanently to gestural works, which consisted of “deep-black pools, rivers and geometric forms”, as described by Sarah Fillmore, chief curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. His diptych of 1987, consisting of ripples of black and white oil paint, demonstrates Hurtubise’s ”gestural splash that repeats with different forms and backgrounds."
