Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: My recent experience includes art projects in media ranging from photography to urban interventions. I developed my interdisciplinary approach during my undergraduate studies in Fine Art at Concordia University. Drawing is essential to my practice. I have created several drawing projects since completing my studies, such as the "Future of Mountain Style" ("Parks N' Rec" exhibition, Ideal Artspace,Calgary), "Colour her World" (presented as part of the "Unscheduled Activity" exhibition in the Other Gallery project space, The Banff Centre), and pen and ink sketches as part of a finalist proposal for the TTC Lansdowne Fence public art competition.
Artist Statement: A strong interest in the poetics of space, place, and the body underpins my visual art practice. I create work in diverse media ranging from urban interventions to photography. Drawing has always been the medium from which my other work grows, catching fleeting ideas and impressions as they arrive. Recently, I have begun a new project called "I'll look around", an evolving series of modest sized line drawings on paper. I think of the project as a visual diary. The eclectic, personal drawings are secret messages, like postcards to a long lost lover or letters written in the sand.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: EDUCATION: Advertising/Design/Photography
EXHIBITIONS: I have exhibited my work in many galleries and taken part in outdoor art shows since 2005-present, ranging from the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Artist Statement: For this show, I have fused my photography with the Encaustic medium, creating an interesting one of a kind piece of art.
The images will be transferred onto a block of wood, which the wood will resemble a Polaroid look and feel.
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Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2010 - photographers:Network, Siegen Germany
2008 - Tinku Gallery, Toronto Canada
2008 - Propeller Centre For Visual Arts, Toronto Canada
Artist Statement: The city is a complex environment of discordant sight and sound. Each element competes with its neighbour for our attention. Despite this clash, there is a subtle river of connection. This work is part of my quest to connect with beauty in the urban world.
I am driven to find harmony within my surroundings. Music is part of my process; the rhythms subconsciously influence my work. By blurring the scene, an underlying harmonic form and colour are revealed.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: In 2009, I've had numerous group shows at Arta, Propeller, Beverly Owens gallery and also at the TOAE(Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition)
Education wise, I've participated in the Florence Off-Campus Program (Florence, Italy) through OCAD during 2002-2003, got my thesis completion and the associate of OCAD degree.
Between 1998 and 2002, I attended Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto with Fine Art major.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Have been a Social Worker for the past 4 years, presently transitioning into the arts.
Volunteer, CAMH Workman Arts (Toronto, ON) Present
Assistant Facilitator, Arts Workshops for Mental Health Survivors 2004-2006
And Arts Camp for Children With Disabilities
Cambridge Library and Gallery (Cambridge, ON)
Manager, Art Gallery 2003-2005
Maeve’s Arts and Antiques (Mackinack Island, MI)
Course: Fiber Arts, (Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON) In progress 06/10
Ontario Art Therapy Association Upcoming 05/10
Training; Thin Moments: Responding to Spiritual Aspects in Art Therapy
Diploma, Social Service Worker, (Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON) 04/07
Artist Statement: The style of my artwork provides a sense of whimsy and comfort. There is also strong ethics behind each piece's creation, as all materials used are reclaimed. This includes salvaged wood scraps, costume jewelry, and clothing scraps. These items draw the viewer in through ornamentation and therefore blurs the line of visual arts to utilize the aesthetic of clothing and jewelry, all the while depicting a scene reminiscent of a fairy tale or nature and simultaneously reducing waste.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Education
Diploma Centennial College, Toronto 2000-2003
Art courses of traditional drawing, Yaroslavna gallery, Kiev, Ukraine 1997-1999
Bachelor Degree from Kiev’s Economic University of Trade, Kiev, Ukraine 1983-1986
Shows
2010
• 2010 VAUGHAN JURIED EXHIBITION -Playhouse Theater from May 28-June 27, 2010.
• Mississauga Art Society Spring Show – April 17 – April 19, 1475 Burnhamthorpe Road West
2009
• Expressions in Art 2009, St Volodymyr Cultural Center, November 6-8, MAS Fall Show on October 17-18-19 at The Visual Arts Mississauga, 1475 Burnhamthorpe Road
• CACY Fine Arts Show, Saturday, October 3, 2009 @ CALEDON DAY – 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Caledon East Community Complex
• Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) for one day September 3, 2009, 10am – 10pm, at the ‘Art for All’ Booth Numbers 2333 and 2432 (beside each other) in the “AT HOME PAVILION” in the Direct Energy Centre, Hall A
• Sunnyside Juried Art Show August. 28th-30th, 2009 Toronto Music and Art Festival “Grand Stock” August. 29th 12PM-5PM 1921 Dundas St. W, Mississauga
• “Art in the Park 2009″ 44th Annual Art in the Park Show, August 3 – Civic Holiday SHOW HOURS 10:00 am to 5:00pm 560 Bronte Road, Oakville, Ontario L6L 6S1
• Mississauga Art Society Spring Show – April 17 – April 19, 1475 Burnhamthorpe Road West
• Montgomery In, Toronto – January 12 – March 1
2008
• Arts Mississauga Valentine Show 15 February to 17 February at the Visual Arts Centre, 1475 Burnhamthorpe Road West.
• Silent Auction of 8 x 10 pieces for Mississauga Garden Council 1 April through 30 April.
• Credit Valley Hospital Provision of corridor for the presentation of work by MAS artists between the period 1 March 2008 and 29 March 2008.
• MAS Spring Show 18 April to 20 April 2008 at Visual Arts Centre, 1475 Burnhamthorpe Road West.
• Silent Auction 10 May through 31 May 2008 at the Port Credit Library.
• Friends of the Benares Museum are hosting a show called “Gallery in the Garden”, 8 June 2008 at Benares House on Clarkson Road North just north of Truscott.
• Gladstone Hotel 29 June to 2 July 2008
• Port Credit Library. Mississauga September
• MAS Fall Show on October 17-18-19 at The Visual Arts Mississauga
• Expressions in Art 2008, St Volodymyr Cultural Centre, November 7-9
Membership:
Mississauga Art Society 2006-20010
Etobicoke Art Group 2009-2010
Oakville Art Society 2009
Gallery: Arttrax Gallery, http://arttrax.ca
Articles: The Mississauga New, “Artist quits job to pursue passion” April 18, 2007, Chris Clay
Artist Statement: My art approach derived from French Impressionists and “GROUP OF SEVEN”.
The favorite subject to paint is a landscape in abstract style. I am equally interested in an expression of the color balance, value as well as subjective aspect in my landscape paintings. Inspired by French – Canadian icon Jean-Paul Riopelle mosaics, I developed a unique painting technique that in the same colorful mosaic manner reflect the the myths of surrounding beauty. My favorite mediums are oil and acrylic.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Art Shows/Exhibitions:
2009
OCT “Panoramic Pinholes”, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
SEPT Queen West Art Crawl
2007/2008
NOV-JAN “Shifting Season”, Leonardo Gallery, Toronto
Publications:
2009
Spring Photography Revisited, PhotoEd Magazine
Teaching:
2010 pinhole workshop @ Applewood Heights SS
2009 pinhole workshop @ Fletcher’s Meadows SS
Artist Statement: The long exposure times required by the pinhole camera contravenes “the decisive moment” notion of photography. My years working in film editing informs my pinhole photography. I’m interested in exploring how pinhole cameras create a cinematic crunch: 24 seconds on a frame instead of 24 frames per second. No decisive moments. Passages of time and the flow of movement doesn’t just freeze but condenses on a single frame.
Currently, I’m photographing highways and overpasses in exploration of how the pinhole process transforms high speed travel into calming streams of light and concrete overpasses into monolithic structures of silent beauty.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Recent Exhibitions:
Drawing for Art, Station Gallery, whitby 2010
The Artist Project, Exhibition Place, Toronto, 2010
Queen St. West Art Crawl, Trintiy Bellwoods Prk, 2009
The Artist Project, Exhibition Place, 2009
OPG, Pickering 2009
Juried Show, Visual Arts Centre, Clarington, 2009
Juried Show, Pineridge Arts Council, Ajax, 2009
Best Acrylic award, Juried show, Oshawa Art Association, 2008
Diploma, Toronto School of Art, 2010
Worked as decorative artist in Toronto for 25 yrs.
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