Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Exhibitions
One woman exhibition Reba's Cafe Dundas St. West, July 2008
One woman exhibition Lou's Coffee Bar, Annette St., December 2008
Polo for Heart Art Walk Newmarket On, July 2009
Reba's Cafe Dundas St. February
Accepted into Riverdale Art Walk 2010
Education
2009-present Studying with Jacqueline Treoloar Toront
Toronto School of Art
Painting courses through the TDSB:
Painting on the Right Side of the Brain
Paint the City
George Brown College Graphics - Sign Design and Production
Artist Statement: Having a background in photography and graphic design, I am drawn by natural light, colour, and design. Light is one of the greatest elements to me.
My process of making of a painting is becoming intuitive. I am learning to trust what speaks to me, to trust my first reaction about what will work in a painting. I work out tonal values and a general idea of colours, but I can deviate from a plan or add to it.
I love the process of designing using shadows that occur early or late in the daylight hours. Natural light is the element that I strive to capture.
Currently, I am becoming interested in diverse subjects that include the flotsam of urban life, figures in various settings, and traditional landscapes and streetscapes. They can be ordinary or objects of beauty, anything that I am visually attracted to.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: My paintings are currently being exhibited in Port Dalhousie ON.
Last year being my first year exhibiting, my art was juried into Kempenfest in Barrie, Fenelon Falls, as well as Queen West Art Crawl. My best results came from the Queen West Art Crawl. I applied to four, howeve TOAE gave me a pass.
I have no formal art training, I just learned by copying the Impressionists and Post Impressionists. This all came about through recovering from an illness 5 years ago.
My Father Mother and one brother are all artists, and one brother a professional cinematographer, as a result we were brought up with an appreciation of Art.
Last year I sold in excess of $5000 through the art shows, and hope to do better this year.
Artist Statement: In 2006, I painted Peggys Cove in realism. Not a bad painting (since sold to a collector in Toronto). I stepped back and realized that it did not feel right to me. I sat right down and painted it the way I felt. It ended up with a lot of linear lines and hard edges, and very bright colours. It seamed to open up a whole new world to me.
Since then I have painted the way I see things. Kind of realism on chemicals. Maybe not to everyones liking, but some seem to emjoy them. Me mostly.
I kind of lean to Wassily Kandinsky and George Braque.
Hope you enjoy them.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I have been in many group and outdoor shows in the last few years including Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Riverdale Art Walk, and queen West Art Crawl. Group shows include Upstairs Downstairs, Bows Art, and The Backroom Exposed at Hang Man Gallery, Toronto. Art auctions including The English Harbour Art Association and The Little Art Show. Solow shows include Sunderland Hall and Dominion House in Toronto as well as North Street Cafe in Brigus, newfoundland. I'm currently with the Spurrell Art Gallery in St. John's and BArt in Toronto. I am mostly self-taught but have completed several courses at Toronto School of Art and many workshops.
Artist Statement: I am a newfoundland born painter with a great appreciation for the natural beauty of the landscape and traditional archetecture of Newfoundland. While I have painted all my life for pleasure I have only become a serious painter within the last several years. It is Newfoundland I post like to paint.
I am captivated by the process of turning what I see into finished works of art. I use a camera to capture my subjects then translate them onto canvas in my studion.
Although I have lived in Toronto for many years I return to Newfoundland as often as possible for inspiration. My paintins tend to evoke memories of earlier places and times, and for me fulfill a sense of the past, and reflect by love of that very special place.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I am primarily an informally taught artist.
I have exhibited at the following:
2009 - Neilson Art Center, Etobicoke Annual Juried Summer show
2006-2008 - Station Gallery of Fenelon Falls(Co-op Gallery member 2yrs) also chair of Municipal Grants committee
2001-2005 - The Visual Arts Center of Clarington annual juried show(1 honorable mention and selected 4 times) and Bowmanville Town Hall
2002-2005 - Whitby Station Gallery Art Competition/member shows(selected 4yrs. First prize Adult category 2004)
2002-2008 - Kawartha Arts Festival - Fenelon Falls (also served as Director on board2007/2008)
2003-2005 - Pine Ridge Arts Council Annual Juried show - Pickering
2001,2002 - McGlaughlin Gallery - Oshawa Art Assoc. annual juried show
2003-2004 - Toronto Art Expo - Metro Convention Ctr
Artist Statement: My works are primarily in acrylic, but I often incorporate other materials and mediums into my works. I have a very eclectic style as I let the subject matter and medium take me into the direction it needs to go. Most recently I have been trying to remove the constraints at the the traditional rectangular or square formats therefore I have been stretching canvas on tree brances and that provides me with the freeform borders to paint within. I also enjoy music and that is often incorporated into my works either as subject or as in painterly style.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2005-2010 BA Honours Studio Art Major, University of Guelph.
Selected Exhibitions: Let’s Make It Special,Ed Video, Guelph, 2010; Gallery Exchange, Artery Gallery, Kitchener, 2010; Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, 2009, 2010; Juried Art Show, Zavitz Hall, University of Guelph, 2008, 2009, 2010; Triple Gulp, Zavitz Gallery, University of Guelph, 2009; Facing the Screen, Art Center, University of Toronto, 2009; Dispersion, McNaughton Library, University of Guelph, 2009; Riverdale Art Walk, 2009.
Artist Statement: As an artist in a digital world, I am interested in how digital media has informed our culture. I am inspired by low resolution snapshots of a music video and downloaded television shows. In order to create a smooth surface which references the video image, I use varying techniques including pulling the paint, and painting wet into wet. By capturing digitally ruptured moments of videos, I work from a place in between places, somewhere between reality and abstraction.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Nov 2010 Zambia to photograph the school program for SEED Canada
Aug 2010 colombia to photograph the Cano Cristales
June 2010 Exhibit of Iceland photos at gallery DK
Malawi photos used by the Journal of World Health and Population
Summer 2010 photos used for Iceland tourism web site
Spring 2010 – Iceland, personal photographic journey
February 2010 – Hughes Room, Toronto, Haiti Relief Fundraiser, Print Auction
January 2007 - Malawi, Africa. 2 week assignment documenting the progress and expansion of a community school and health care program
Fall 2008 solo show Oakville Arts council
Summer 2007 – Art in the Park
2005 – CONTACT – solo show
Artist Statement: For Rick Brazeau, photography is the artistic medium that captures the inherent beauty of a moment, images of life that surprise you with the unexpected. The textures and nuances of nature, the resiliency of a face etched with a lifetime of want and need – Rick finds the dimensions of light and composition that reveal a story found and waiting to be shared.
“I photograph to be in the moment and share that moment with others. We are bombarded with negative and so called ugly ‘truth’ day in and day out; photography finds the beauty in the moment – it stops the demons from stealing the bits of everyday miracles that I see in this crazy world.”
With a skill and talent developed over forty years, from darkroom and film to the latest digital technology, the range and scope of Rick’s work has remained grounded in the importance of using photography for a greater good, an honesty in seeing and being in the world and in the moment.
Rick’s work, from public shows, private collections and sales, and international travel is recognized and well received. He has sold his work to private collectors in New York, Boston, Toronto, the Middle East and Africa. His work has been donated and auctioned in numerous charitable events supporting international relief work and in particular local addiction and mental health services.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Education
June 2010: Printmaking Residency, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York.
2008: Graduated with Honours, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario.
Recent Exhibitions
2010: 100 Prints. Open Studio. Toronto, Ontario.
2010: Human Book: 3rd Artist Book and Small Editions Festival. Barcelona, Spain.
2009: GBA. Art Metropole. Toronto, Ontario.
2009: The Book Arts Fair. OCAD. Toronto, Ontario.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Recent Exhibitions-
2010:
Contact, Women's Art Association
Merge, AGO Art Rental + Sales Gallery
AGO Staff Show , Hang Man Gallery
2009:
Whodunnit
The Little Art Show
Craftique, The Bata Shoe Museum
ArtWork Gala
Lust Show, The Beverly Owens Project
Scapes Show, Women’s Art Association
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Queen West Art Crawl
Members Show, Artists Network
Summer Members Show, Women’s Art Association
Cooling Off, Artists Network
Education-
Toronto School Of Art, Independent Studio Program
Mount Allison University, BFA Degree
Artistic Affiliations-
The Women's Art Association of Canada, Member
The Artists Network of Riverdale, Member
Artist Statement: A mixed-media artist, Katelyn Di Giulio completed her BFA Degree at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick and the ISP at Toronto School of Art. Her work is inspired by and plays with ‘the feminine’ and craft work, pop culture and film, fabrics and fashion, vintage and kitsch.
The pieces are highly process-based, and her art is mostly series-oriented, such as the ''hoop'' or "Desperate Housewife" groupings. She relies on both happenstance and nostalgia to create playful works, which incorporate collage, photography, fiber and sculptural elements.
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