Category: Exhibitions

  • 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.

     

















  • Interludes ~ Susan Oomen exhibit

    Interludes ~ Susan Oomen exhibit

  • Interludes ~ Susan Oomen oil paintings

    Interludes ~ Susan Oomen oil paintings

    OIL PAINTER SUSAN OOMEN CREATES INTERLUDES FOR OUR HOMES AND BUSY LIVES

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    June 2 to July 12, 2015

    Studio22 is very fortunate to be able to work with Susan Oomen and her peaceful oils.  With us since 2012, Susan brings us this most beautiful body of work themed to encompass the simple notion of pause – something we don’t always get enough of in our daily routine. We believe art rallies us toward and provides our homes with that pause; a break, a breath, an interlude.

    Interludes is a stunning collection of artwork that you will want to hang in your own home.  Put an Interlude on your wall and into your day to day.

    Susan Oomen

    Statement:

    Interlude:  period of time; an interval; a piece of music played between other pieces or between the verses of a hymn; a temporary amusement or diversion that contrasts what goes before or after

    From the sunlit table with tea and flowers, signifying contemplation or intimate conversation, to the getaways on water, canoeing, sitting on water’s edge, these paintings share the same theme.  They are about space and time away from the busyness of our lives.  They are also about water, as it is a connecting element throughout my work, lakes, rivers, snow, mist, tea, or even water in vases.

     

    Stillness and peace, we all seek it, and it is becoming harder to find.  So much of our lives are made up of noise, communication, moving from one task to another.  Interludes become precious and necessary.  Interludes are sometimes planned, as in vacation, time on the water in a boat, or just being on the dock or beach.  But many of our interludes are unplanned.  Some of the most precious and memorable come unexpectedly. A random event takes us away from the plans of the day, perhaps a simple unexpected wait, where we connect with strangers.  Or a fender bender or power outage that leads to unexpected moments of thought or conversation.  Your house without power changes as all the chores that involve electricity disappear and you end up sitting in a chair, watching rain or snow fall, in fading light.  In these interludes we are taken out of our habits, our rigid thought patterns, and they become times of contemplation, perspective is clear and thoughts are random.  Stillness is a gift and a necessity.

    My recent work involves images of water, of buildings that appear to float on water’s edge, sometimes briefly lit by afternoon light…..or canoeists in mist or sparkling water.  The colours appear like jewels, the reflections falling, fracturing and disappearing into dark rippled water.  There is also the mystery of the dark water, and what lies beneath, and what lies beyond the dark shadows of shoreline and bush.   Sometimes the water is churning, sometimes like glass.  Water has character, and is constantly changing.  It is a continuous joy to observe the different moods of water, a joy and challenge to portray.  It occurs to me that like children, who I believe depict things in illustrations to make them real, I too depict the things I want to make real for myself and others.  These paintings allow me to be there in that moment, on those lakes and rivers, for that misty morning, away from my own routines, if only briefly, but enough to bring that short necessary interlude, that memory revisited.

    ~ Susan Oomen, 2015

    Biography

    http://susanoomen.ca

    Personal History

    Susan was born in Smith Falls, Ontario to Dutch immigrant parents. She grew up on a farm in the Kingston area with her ten siblings.  Developing an interest in oil painting at a very young age lead her to attended Queens University and graduate with a degree in fine art in 1976.  Presently she lives in Utopia, a community near Barrie Ontario, with her husband Derek.  She is represented by Roberts Gallery in Toronto, Studio22 in Kingston and Rouge Gallery in Saskatoon.  Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout Canada and the United States.

  • Steel ~ Rick Lapointe

    Steel ~ Rick Lapointe

  • Music Portfolio ~ Bernard Clark

    Music Portfolio ~ Bernard Clark

  • Julie Davidson Smith ~ New Gravity

  • 10 Artists ~ ShagRug Collective

    10 Artists ~ ShagRug Collective

    Deborah Brown • Margaret Hughes • Robin Moon • Erika Olson • Lyn Rapin • Rose Stewart • Sharon Thompson • Lina Van Helvert • Jo Wren • Ron Wilkinson

    October 25th to November 30th, 2014

    The shag rug collective came together spontaneously through the generosity of Erica Olsen and Simon Andrew who invited some interested artists to participate in biweekly gatherings in Erica’s studio. The dominant yellow shag rug on the floor of Erica’s former studio became an obvious choice for the name of the group.

    We paint and draw together using still life as a jumping off point. The diversity of responses to the same subject stimulates and revitalizes the often lonely process of art making. The group also benefits from voluntary critiques and the opportunity to share art information.

    We dedicate this show to Ron Wilkinson, an original member, who died September 2013.

    • Deborah Brown

    Deborah Brown has been making art for as long as she can remember. Beginning with drawing and then moving to photography, fiber art, and painting. Her current works are black and white drawings emphasizing geometric forms, repetitive patterns and negative spaces. She attended New School of Art in Toronto, St. Lawrence College, and received a Masters in Fine Art from Concordia University.

    • Margaret Hughes • BFA PGCE

    Born in South Africa and lived in Kingston since 1968.

    Producer of decorated ceramics, paintings and pastels from my studio in Kingston for about 40 years. Co-owner ( and one of the co-founders) of Cornerstone Fine Crafts in Kingston from 1981 – 2004. I exhibited my work in ceramics locally, provincially and nationally and paintings and pastels locally and in Toronto. Past teacher of ceramics and art.

    After closing my ceramic studio I adapted it to serve as a painting studio and returned to painting and drawing where I had started. For a number of years I have been one of the regulars who meet at Erika Olson’s studio, the so-called Shag Rug Studio, to work on still life or whatever we choose to work on. The artist’s life is rather solitary and our regular gatherings provide opportunity to critique and receive critiques of our work from respected peers. I have found these gatherings to be stimulating, helpful and thought provoking, especially when experiencing a “dry” spell.

    Ceramic pieces, often made by me, have been part of my subject matter, providing a bridge between the two media that have been part of my life for more than 50 years.

    • Robin Moon

    • Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours; specialty in Printmaking), Queen’s University, 1991
    • Bachelor of Education (Art and Drama), University of Western Ontario, 1992

    After an extended hiatus from painting, I have recently begun to re-explore a fascination with portraiture that I experienced in childhood – considering questions that emerge, fade, and then resurface around the nature of identity, of our physicality, how we connect to the inner lives of others, and how to express personal relationships with the natural and spiritual world.

    I am captivated by Milan Kundera’s novel Immortality, in which the protagonist, Agnes, yearns for an afterlife as a place without faces and the author examines the “certain part of all of us that lives outside of time.” My goal is to reconcile the ideas in that book with the impulse to paint, to find in both a narrative that begins to unravel the differences between what is seen and what is shown.

    ~ Robin

    • Erika Olson

    Biography

    Erika Olson Completed her BFA at Concordia University in 1997, and returned to Kingston where she has developed a strong following, taking many awards. With numerous solo exhibitions and group shows to her credit, Erika has shown in North America and was represented in the UK at the Innocence Gallery.

    I paint as urgently as possible. Working from life, I paint what I see, but it is processed through my emotional attachment to the subject matter. All of my work evolves directly from my environment and the objects that I find in it. Appearing ordinary and dealing with subject matter like food, or the domestic sphere my work chronicles daily life and elevates these subjects to be worthy of consideration as art.
    ~ Erica

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    • Evelyn Rapin

    Evelyn Rapin is a professional artist living in Kingston, Ontario. Her paintings are frequently based on musical themes; however, she also produces artwork inspired by a variety of subjects. Movement, expressionism and ambiguity are favoured elements seen in her work.
    On display at Studio 22 are a series of works inspired by the music of David Bowie. Kandinsky (1977)* claims that “every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.” On that note, these works represent a personal impression of music and its cultural evolution, a subject of infinite inspiration for the artist.
    *Kandinsky, W. (1977). Concerning the spiritual in art. Toronto, ON: Dover Publications (republication)

    http://evelynrapin.com

    • Rose Stewart

    As well as teaching for many years in Kingston and Toronto, I have maintained a studio practice for many years. The focus of my art, in recent time, has been the arrangement of disparate old drawings (my own) as well as select colours and textures into a large body of work in the form of collage – the series entitled Contingency. The reference, in part, comments on the myriad possibilities, the often chance occurances involved in the process of art making. Further, my curiosity is with the integrity of mark making. During our shag rug studio days, I draw exclusively and fragments of these drawings
    often end up in my collages.

    My work, prior to present day collage art, employed the medium of oil painting
    ~ Rose

    • Sharon Thompson

    Gardens 2014

    What I care about in this recent series of garden paintings is how light, space, fluidity and colour work together to create the impression and sense of the garden I am painting.

    I begin the painting in the garden, but I spend much time with it later in the studio creating a whole, mainly by ‘feeling’ the relationships and how they belong in the painting’s overall structure. This second stage is very influenced by my long apprenticeship in abstract painting.

    ~ Sharon Thompson, September 2014

    Sharon Thompson is a Kingston (Ontario) based artist. She is an abstract painter but she also works in mixed media, and keeps a life drawing and plein air landscape practice as well. These nourish the abstract focus of her work.

    She graduated from Queen’s University in 1983 with a BFA (first class honours).

    Her numerous solo shows include: Robert Langen Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University; Modern Fuel Artists Run Centre; Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, U of T; Ottawa School of Art; McLanahan Gallery, Penn State U, (Ivyside Juried National Competition); Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa; The Cambridge Centre for the Arts; State of Flux Gallery (MFARC). Her work has been included in numerous group shows including: Bowery Gallery New York City; Impact Artists Gallery, Buffalo NY; Sacramento Fine Arts Center.

    http://www.sharonthompson.ca

    • Lina Van Helvert

    Lina has been painting for over fifty years and has explored several mediums. She has taught herself watercolour painting and acrylic, she tried very hard to master encaustic, and now she is in her element as a pastel artist. The colour intensity and layering possibilities lend themselves so well to
    landscape, which has often been her first choice of subject matter. And lately these very qualities of
    pastel have drawn her to portraiture and the figure. Of course she will always be trying new things,
    experimenting with styles, taking courses to learn about other mediums, and just experiencing the joy
    of creativity.

    She grew up amongst an enormous family in rural southern Ontario, but has spent her adult life in and around Kingston.

    • Jo Wren

    Jo Wren studied Itten’s Theory of Colour at the Koffler Centre in Toronto in 1980. She began her BFA at Queen’s University in 1981, finishing in 1985. During her third year in the program, Jo studied drawing for one semester at The Boston School of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Canada, England, Australia, and the United States and appears on the cover of several books, both fiction and poetry.

    • Ron Wilkinson

    Ron had been a frequent visitor to Studio22 for many years. He would pop in for almost every new exhibit. He would come in fresh from a long bike ride, throw down his helmet and backpack on the nearest available chair and proceed to commune with the art. He was always eager and engaged and at the end of his gallery tour, would thank us for this ‘hit’ of inspiration and sustenance.

    The day after Ron learned that he had cancer, he came by for one of these regular visits. He was a bit shell shocked as he told us of this new reality but was determined to be optimistic and strong. About a week later, Ron returned, made a quick round of the exhibit he had previously pursued, and then announced that he would be purchasing 3 pieces.

    Ron had enjoyed the art on our walls for many years, but had never bought anything before. He said he wanted to actively express how much our gallery meant to him by buying these pieces of art. He saw these purchases as life affirming – as something that would help him get through his days of taxing treatments and fear. This act was for him and for us.

    We were very touched and grateful beyond words. Our motto is a statement by theatre artist Irwin Piscator that says of his efforts in the arts,

    “I wanted to rid myself of the feeling which I had experienced that art has nothing to do with reality and is not sturdy enough to help us live up to it.”

    Art is sturdy. Art is necessary. Ron knew this and he relied on it to help him face his life and, ultimately, the end of his life. Like his friends and fellow artists in the ShagRug Collective, we remember Ron’s life and honour him with this exhibit.

    ~ Ally & Hersh Jacob

     

  • Curves ~ New Sculptures by Molly McClung

    Curves ~ New Sculptures by Molly McClung

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    Molly McClung

    Alabaster, Chlorite & Soapstone Sculpture

    Nature, including human nature, is my starting point.  When I handle a rough mass of stone, I see elemental forms, simple, organic, strong and uncluttered.  When I finish a piece, the rough has become smooth and the jagged edge has become a clean line.
  • Nymphs ~New Works in Mixed Media by Rebecca Cowan

    Nymphs ~New Works in Mixed Media by Rebecca Cowan

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    Rebecca Cowan

     

    We do not want merely to see beauty… we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.”
    ― C.S. Lewis

    This set of nymphs encompasses several of the themes I have been exploring in my work for some time. First, there is the notion that modern society continues to be influenced by ancient archetypes. Second, I have long been fascinated by the ways people show their public and private faces, and how secrets, dreams and desires are kept hidden. Most recently, a close examination of seasonal trees has led me to consider the importance of nature in our technology driven lives. And just as the images bring together a variety of thoughts and ideas, so does the technique.

    I have used a range of media and techniques to produce this work. Each piece begins as an intaglio monotype printed on semi- transparent Japanese paper. In most of the work, at least two different metal plates have been printed to create an illusion of the forest’s depth. Next, a coloured pencil drawing of the figure is done on the back of the printed image. Then, a wood panel is stained to enhance the colours of both the trees and the figure. The Japanese paper with its printed trees and drawn figure is adhered to the board. At that point additional drawing or painting, on the surface of the paper covered board, may be added. And finally the entire panel is coated with several layers of acrylic medium to seal the image.

     

  • Blue ~ Oil Paintings by Teresa Mrozicka

    Blue ~ Oil Paintings by Teresa Mrozicka

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    Teresa Mrozicka

    Originally from Poland, Teresa received her training in fine arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, and graphic arts at George Brown College in Toronto. She has been painting and gardening for over 15 years since she had moved from Toronto to the rural area near Kingston.

    Mastering a technique that she has developed over a period of years, Teresa creates semi-abstract vibrant work using bold primary colours in her own pointillism style. The paintings look like they have little jewels applied all over the surface, and have a rich, tactile quality with rhythm and symmetry. The artist states: “The ultimate goal I wish to accomplish, mastering my technique is to be able to captivate the energy of an inner glow and with the effect of a trance-like rhythm of the dots give the paintings their own pulse”.

    Through the years the female figure tends to appear despite the different themes that I have explored in my painting practice. Most recently the female nude has become the subject. Her landscape-like body manifests the tendency to intertwine with earthy Elemental Forces that I have been working with in the past. Spring is Air – youth. Summer is the Sun and the fruition of our mature years. Autumn is Earth – harvest time, old age. Winter is peace and death. Essential waters are transformed into snow. Recently I have been contemplating the essence of beauty, openness and the need to give and connect, I imagine our Planet as a vulnerable woman that needs to be respected, loved and cherished. I would like her to continue to flourish and give life.

    http://teresamrozicka.com

    Her Germination, Spring 2009

  • Stefan Duerst – Liquid Steel

    Stefan Duerst – Liquid Steel

    New Metal Sculptural Works

    July 19th to August 24th, 2014

    Stefan Duerst is a creator whose mind, body, spirit and sculptural works can all be viewed through the concept of Liquid Steel.  There is fluidity and strength aplenty.

    Stefan’s metal works are suitable for indoor or outdoor display.  Some are free standing; some hang on a wall.  Some of his works are so large that they will not fit in our gallery.  This has given us the opportunity to do something we have long wanted to do – exhibit artwork in Market Square.  For the evening of Saturday July 19th, we will be exhibiting Stefan’s larger works in historic Market Square concurrent to opening his ‘indoor’ exhibit at Studio22 (overlooking the square) between 8 and 10:30 pm.  The outdoor exhibit is open to the public.

    Artist Statement:

    Since moving to Canada over 18 years ago, I have been collecting tools and equipment that fill my 1800 sq ft studio, enabling me to produce high quality work in a variety of sizes for the 60 acres sculpture garden on my property near Godfrey, ON.

    I am drawn to the inherent qualities of steel; the paradox of its structural integrity and nearly unlimited malleability. Heating this metal in my forges allows me to shape it by handheld hammer, anvil, power hammer and bending fork. I fabricate the pieces without the help of an apprentice, which often pushes me to my physical limits and thus creates a deep, meditative connection with my work.

    Important to my work is the Canadian shield; the natural environment surrounding my house and studio provide an endless source of inspiration to me. I bring to these scenes of nature a sensibility inspired by my European background, especially the Bauhaus period and the metal sculpture movement in the 60’s, as well as Art Nouveau. These influences are evidenced by the combination of a strict geometry in dialogue with flowing, organic lines.
    Also integral to these works is the play between space/non-space, minimalism, archaic forms, and the properties of the material itself. The surface treatment of my work ranges from raw steel to bright industrial paint, depending on the overall emotion of the piece.

    ~ stefan duerst

  • Patti Emmerson – Trip the Light

    Patti Emmerson – Trip the Light

    Patti Emmerson
    Trip the Light
    New Abstract Acrylics
    June 14 to July 13, 2014

    “trip the light” : to “trip the light fantastic” is to dance nimbly or lightly, or to move in a pattern to musical accompaniment. It is often used in a humorous vein. To dance, especially in an imaginative or ‘fantastic’ manner.

    Artist Statement:

    Painting is a dance. I boldly go where my heart and movements take me. Sometimes a waltz, sometimes full on interpretive jazz! It allows me to be the happiest version of myself, it allows me to be free.

    Captured photographic moments of simple vignettes surrounding me, evolve and twist into unexpected abstract expressions.

    Acrylic colour and texture are spread across the canvas with rollers, knives, trowels … anything but brushes; spontaneous results develop.

    My current body of work “trip the light” embraces the magic of patterns and light and the pure joy of freedom of expression. For me, it’s that simple.

    Patti Emmerson
    Kingston, ON
    May 2014

  • Phillida Hargreaves – Narrow Spaces

    Phillida Hargreaves – Narrow Spaces

    Phillida Hargreaves
    Narrow Spaces
    New works in Textile & Fibre
    May 3 to June 8, 2014

    This exhibition is about narrow spaces in the urban landscape. I am drawn to narrow spaces at the same time as I am anxious to move through them. It is this ambivalence that I explore through art.

    My intent is to examine the emotional responses triggered by being in these spaces: spaces that hint at something hidden or mysterious; spaces that confine and enclose; spaces that frame and enhance. Such spaces can elicit anything from pleasure to anticipation, to excitement, to curiosity, to claustrophobia, to discomfort, or even to fear.
    While many of the spaces I examine are physically narrow, there are others that evoke a feeling of narrowness, such as being among the soaring office towers of Toronto; and still further spaces where the frame is narrow and the object seen beyond is enhanced.

    The pieces in the collection are loosely based on photographs I have taken in Canada, Europe and North Africa. My aim is to interpret the space according to my emotional response to it, and to invite viewers in so that they too may experience the various responses that narrowness evokes.
    My medium is fibre, primarily cloth and yarn. The textural dimension that fibre offers adds to the emotional impact of the pieces. Much of the cloth has been altered through painting, dying, rusting and discharging, and the yarn through dying, felting and knitting.

    http://www.phillidahargreaves.ca

    Gallery Hours
    Tuesday to Sunday – 11 to 5 pm
    & Friday evenings 7 to 10 pm
    (Anytime by appointment)

  • Debra Krakow – Evolving Surface

    Debra Krakow – Evolving Surface

    Our NEW season launches on March 22nd:

    New works in Acrylic and Mixed Media

    March 22 to April 27, 2014

    Debra Krakow is a Canadian artist and architect whose luminous abstract paintings in acrylic and mixed-media evoke the light-infused landscape of the Thousand Islands region of Ontario where she lives, and the less knowable, multi-layered landscape of the mind.

    Debra has exhibited in her native city of Montreal, as well as in Ottawa, Kingston, Halifax and New York State. Her works are held in public and private collections throughout North America.

    Artist Statement

    My artwork is a quest for a new aesthetic that melds our deeply rooted notions of beauty with our modern, urbanized sensibilities.  I tend to work in series, with many pieces in progress at one time, each informing the other.This year I’m continuing my exploration of spontaneous abstract painting, but moving into larger formats. With a big canvas, there’s just more room for interesting things to happen. Beginning with an underpainting of luminous glazes, I build my paintings layer by layer, selectively revealing and obscuring the intent of the layer below. This creates a richly textured finished piece that is evocative and intriguing, and invites interpretation without imposing an overt meaning.I’m also working on a series of smaller, playful mixed-media works on canvas and paper. The quilted series brings together my recent forays into textile art, handmade paper, collage and paint. These pieces are inspired by nature yet still, for the most part, completely non-representational. The infusion of fibre and paper crafts into these paintings gives them a three-dimensional, tactile quality which I love.  I am very excited by these new paintings, and by the process of creating them.

    Evolving Surface Catalogue

    http://debrakrakow.com

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