Day: 22 July 2015

  • Barry Blunden ~ Coppersmith

    Barry Blunden ~ Coppersmith

     

    Coppersmith
    July 21 to August 23, 2015
    Anyone who strolls down Princess and King street and through the back courtyards of downtown Kingston is already familiar with the works of Barry Blunden. Without realizing it, residents and visitors alike have been delighted by the hanging laundry and grasshopper in the Brock Street Commons, the pelican and gargoyle along King street on the Whig and Masonic buildings and the rooster standing outside the Golden Rooster itself. Even the beautiful detailing along many of downtown’s most iconic buildings belongs to Blunden. Born in, and named for Barryfield, Blunden is a part of Kingston’s history not only in legacy but in his longstanding contributions to the aesthetic of the town.
    For the first time in years, a collection (spanning decades) of Blunden’s work will be shown and offered for sale at Studio 22, Open Gallery. His time as a working copper and tinsmith has led to a stunning collection of architectural detailing, practical pieces for the home and decorative sculptures.
    Blunden himself describes the durability and longstanding nature of the material used in his work. Joking that his pieces will one day be seen on the antique roadshow, the serious longevity of his craft becomes clear. Just like Kingston itself, Barry Blunden’s pieces have a long standing history behind them and a new history waiting ahead of them.
    For decades before and ever creating still, there is always more to come…
    “I just want to rush out every morning and get my hands dirty. This is what I do.” – Barry Blunden

     

  • Days & Nights – New works by Vadim Vaskowksy

    Days & Nights – New works by Vadim Vaskowksy

    Days & Nights
    July 21 to August 23, 2015
    Painter Vadim Vaskovsky creates a new mixed body of work for Studio22 using a variety of techniques and materials.  He takes his artistic inspiration from his infant daughter in an effort to find new ways of seeing and expressing.
     
    Vadim Vaskovsky – Artist Statement:
    Being asked to give a name to the exhibition I would like to explain my choices.
    The first working name was “For Maria” and another one was “Days and Nights”.
    Looking at the pictures I have been working on recently, I find that each one could be classified as either a day or night picture.  Some of the images are done in the day light, some worked out under electric light during the nights.  My seven month old daughter Maria gives me such charmed smiles that I can ignore them only when she sleeps.  Thus, I often work at night. 
     
    After a prolonged period of painting landscapes under the sun, it is a new experience for me.  Under cover of night, it is comfortable to paint a thought rather than an impression which has more tendency to deviate.  There are always so many thoughts though.  Most of them only hassle creativity.  An artist thinking purely in terms of vanity can only imitate art, not create something new.  To put an end to that kind of thinking, I decided to work and create purely for my child.  While painting, I am thinking of how to make an image that will invoke the interest of a child; how to open up my world to her.  To think only about it.  I must say it helps greatly.

     The selected pictures are paintings, drawings and prints.  The main medium is acrylic and ink.  My recent interest in stained glass and mosaic is seen in some pictures painted from sketches for glass work.  Also, there are a few pastels and linocut prints.

     

     

  • Crows ~ New Acrylic Paintings by Debra Krakow

    Crows ~ New Acrylic Paintings by Debra Krakow

    CROWS
    Debra Krakow ~ Acrylic Paintings
    July 21 to August 23, 2015
    Debra Krakow

    Artist Statement:

    I began the Crow series while living in the south of India earlier this year. My studio was outdoors, on the back porch of an old stone house. We were on a mountaintop, 7,000 feet up, at the edge of a steep escarpment. On clear mornings I could see for miles and miles; by mid-afternoon we were usually in the clouds. The crows would swoop down from the woods behind me and soar out over the valley below. I loved watching them from this vantage point.

    I began these pieces with an underpainting of textured gesso and acrylic medium. Once that was dry (which could take days on a misty mountaintop in monsoon season) I worked the paint into the surface, adding and removing layers of colour to create subtle variations and depth. The crows are cut out of a separate sheet of paper, textured and painted in the same palette of colours, and then overlaid onto the painted background.

     

















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