Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I have completed George Brown continuing education classes: Jewellery I, IIA, IIB, and Jewellery Design. Through GIA (Gemology Institute of America), I’ve completed online courses: Coloured Stone Essentials, Jewellery Essentials, Diamond Essentials, earned recognition as an Accredited Jewellery Professional, Fundamentals of Marketing, Principles of Management and Basic Accounting. I’m currently enrolled in an enamelling course through Jewel Envy. Last year I participated in the Cabbagetown Art & Crafts Sale, and I look forward to more shows in the future. I am a member of the Ontario Crafts Council, and the Metal Arts Guild of Canada.
Artist Statement: I love starting with a just sheet of metal and turning it into a beautiful piece of wearable art. My process starts with a basic plan or design and I let it evolve as I work, rarely does a piece finish the way I originally thought it would. I started making silver jewellery three years ago after completing several jewellery classes at George Brown College. I’m excited to have just recently opened my online store on etsy.com. I’m looking forward to continuing to learn and grow, allowing my art and my business to evolve as I continue to create.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Yana Hoffman is a mature emerging artist who postponed doing art for 50 years. At 59, Central Tech accepted her into their adult art program. In Year One, 13 of her works were exhibited including a bronze medallion and a glass and metal assemblage piece. In Year 2 her first clay sculpture, an ecorche, was showcased for a year and had an offer to purchase. As an emerging artist her work is gaining recognition locally as well as in Europe and the States.
Artist Statement: As a psychotherapist starting in my 60’s to immerse myself in my art I am now birthing sculptures that have been gestating since childhood. Compelled to unravel the Collective Unconscious and honour our human Longing for Wholeness, I endeavor to express Courage, Vulnerability and Integrity in sculptural form. I work in clay, bronze, cement, assemblage and dabble in cathartic painting.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I have been trained as a visual artist major at the Claude Watson School for the Arts as well as have taken courses at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Seneca and C1 Artspace. I have recently participated in Synthesis and QWAC for the past four years.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Tracy Thomson
Upcoming:
Riverdale Art Walk, 10
Recent Painting Exhibitions include:
Queen West Art Crawl, 09
Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor (Queen West Art Crawl) 09
Junction Art Festival, Juried Exhibit, 09
AWOL, Square Foot, 09
Riverdale Art Walk, 09
Eleven: Hangman Gallery, 09
Paris Paintings/Dance Paintings: TSA, 08/09/10
Landscapes/Handscapes: Art Fest on Main, 07
Landscapes: Station Gallery, 07
Film:
The Show, feature documentary, BRAVO.
In Search of Joy, documentary, CBC, VisionTV, SCN, Knowledge Networks.
Memberships:
Artists Network of Riverdale, VAO, OSEA, CODE, Arts Leadership Council TDSB
Education:
B.F.A. w/ Distinction OCAD, Integrated Media
B.A. York
B. Ed. Ottawa.
Artist Statement: Tracy Thomson's paintings explore dualities: common and precious, ephemeral and everlasting, isolation and belonging and our internal and external relationships with the world. Her Urbanscape series addresses the relationship between individual and collective responses to time and space. Tracy’s latest work investigates dance from several perspectives in order to experience dance as both performer and observer.
Tracy intentionally responds to the connection between past, present, shared experience and the lasting impact of our actions, even though we are temporary to this place and time. She is fascinated by the connections between the artist and art and the art and viewer.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Candace has an honours degree in fine art from McMaster University, where she was also a teacher’s assistant for a second-year drawing class. She has since taught several art classes for children at the Oakville Art Society. Her most recent shows include a group show at Incubator Gallery (formerly Amelia), "Editions II" at *new* Gallery, and a month-long solo show at the Freeway Coffee House. She participated in the Queen West Art Crawl in both 2007 and 2008. She currently lives in Oakville.
Artist Statement: I like to play with the idea of self – the development of a self, the similarities and differences between individuals, various roles we all play and the frequency with which these can change. While some days it’s about making a big beautiful mess, other times creating art is a way of containing an experience so that I can examine it, pinned flat and held still for a minute. Most of my art ends up being mixed media: the usual suspects are drawing-media, paints and fabrics, frequently layered with woodcuts.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2009-Art Expo 2009, 2009-RHGA Jury Show (Won Best in Show), 2009-PAC's 18th Annual Open Juried Show (Won F&W Publications Subscription Award), 2009-Art 2009, 2009-21st Annual Cabbagetown Arts and Crafts Sale, 2009-Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition at The Elaine Fleck Gallery, 2010-IAPS 15th Juried Exhibition, 2010-Richeson 75 International Pastels 2010 Competition (Won Merit Award), 2010-RHGA Jury Show (Won 1st Prize)
Artist Statement: To me, art is an expression of emotions and gives a message to the viewer. I go about this through a realistic approach which allows viewers to see them come to life. Currently interested in the casual and daily life of city people, I depict the movement of city life through my paintings, and allow people to be captured in a natural light.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Karen works on reclaimed wood, using oil and acrylics, applied to wet and dried plaster. She uses tools, once the surface is dry, to scrape the surface. Layers of colour and depth impact each piece once a thin layer of epoxy resin is applied as a finish.
2010 Art Square Gallery - Toronto
2010 Whistler Village Art Gallery Winter Olympics - Whistler, B.C.
2010 In2(Big)Art Show, In2Art Gallery - Oakville, ON
2010 Art Gallery of Hamilton - Hamilton, ON
Artist Statement: I look at each piece of wood as an untold story. The wear and tear of the wood, the found stains, even the gouges and knots have a history of its own. Those details start to guide me as I begin to create. The result, is a painting that has not only been influenced by the wood itself but also from my own experiences and stories throughout the process. The most interesting part for me, is knowing that what I have created might find itself passed on to someone else, becoming part of another unfolding story.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: My name is Yelena Skroznikova
I’m self-taught artist .I'm sculpring art toys from wool and polymer clay.
In 2009 I was a part of Cabbage town Art and Crafts festival and Art Market 918 Bathurst .Two of my art toys part of the Indegs gallery.
Artist Statement: My name is Yelena Skroznikova.
I sculpt my toys from wool using needle felting technique and from polymer clay.
Needle felting it's felting without water.I use special barbed felting needle to sculpture wool I push the top layer of wool into deeper layers, fiber "stick " to itself without soap and water.
My other passion is polymer clay like Apoxy Sculpt and Super Sculpey . I'm sculpting a body from clay,paint face,make costume,glue hair….
All my art toys been made by me using my original design.
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