Founded in 1989 by Blais and his partner Sylvie Cataford, who'd been haunting museum openings together since their teens in Laval, the gallery survived economic collapse, a remortgaged house, and the death of the print market to become a fixture on boulevard Saint-Laurent. Today it represents over fifty artists, roughly three-quarters of them Québécois, spanning emerging voices and canonical names like Françoise Sullivan, Rita Letendre, and Joan Mitchell. The programming moves fluidly between contemporary and modern, between the intimate and the monumental, and the prices are calibrated to welcome first-time buyers alongside serious collectors. The family that almost folded in 1991 is still very much open for business.