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  • Summer 2023:  Artist Portfolio Series

    Summer 2023: Artist Portfolio Series

    Summer 2023

    NEW WORK

     • Teri Wing •

    Teri Wing

  • Leah Hicks – Showcase 2023

    Leah Hicks – Showcase 2023

    This feature showcase is a presentation of 7 new abstract paintings by artist Leah Hicks.

    Showcase PAINTINGS

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    Artist Biography

    Leah Hicks is an abstract, acrylic and mixed media artist.

    In 2005 a catastrophic car accident turned my passion for art into my salvation. Traumatic injuries to all four lobes of my brain left me unable to Speak Clearly, suffered from Double Vision and Functional Limb Weakness. My amazing rehab team encouraged me not to give up on my passion.  Over many years I have renewed myself. I redeveloped basic human skills to challenge the plasticity of my brain. I learned to paint with my left hand instead of my previously dominant right hand.

    Hicks is represented by galleries in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal.  Her work has been collected by the Federal Government of Canada as well as held in many private collections.

  • SPRING 2023:  Artist Portfolio Series

    SPRING 2023: Artist Portfolio Series

    Spring 2023

    NEW WORK

    • Bruno Capolongo • Bernard Clark • Ran Jacob • Teri Wing •

    Bruno Capolongo

    Bernard Clark

    Ran Jacob

    Teri Wing

  • Winter 2022-2023:  Artist Portfolio Series

    Winter 2022-2023: Artist Portfolio Series

    Winter 2022-2023

    NEW WORK

    • Leah Hicks • Teri Wing •

    Leah Hicks

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  • Ran Jacob Abstract Art

    Ran Jacob Abstract Art

     

    Feature Exhibit


    This Time – With Feeling

    RAN JACOB

    September 8th – September 30th

    Studio22 Fine Art is thrilled to introduce emerging artist and abstract painter, Ran Jacob. His latest body of work has been a labor of love for the artist for the past two years.

    The immensely saturated works that comprise this new exhibit are intended as humorous impressions of the multifaceted nature of our collective lived experiences and the relationships created throughout.

    “Through subtle winks or heavy-handed finger pointing, it is my intention to reflect and cultivate in my paintings the same terrible, anxious beauty that I believe exists in all things. The contrasting duality of existence is precisely what life and, in turn, my paintings are all about.” -Ran Jacob

    Preview and presale for this exhibit will take place Thursday, September 8th and Friday, September 9th

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    Artist Biography

    Ran Jacob is an emerging abstract painter and drawer currently residing in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS).

    As a life-long student of visual arts, Jacob most recently received his BA in Fine Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

    This past summer the artist was selected by the Senior Leadership of Nova Scotia Health and members of the NSCAD faculty to work alongside three other artists on a commissioned artwork to be installed in Halifax’s Victoria General Hospital.   

    Utilizing rhythmic, flamboyant maximalism, Jacob’s works are intentionally saturated with concentrated sensory reflections, compressed into quasi-abstracted large-scale records.

    Raised in Kingston, Ontario, Ran is looking forward to exhibiting his latest body of work back in the city of his youth and beloved hometown.

  • Sacha Warunkiw Abstract Art

    Sacha Warunkiw Abstract Art

     

    Feature Exhibit


    Introducing Hard-edge Abstract Artist

    SACHA WARUNKIW

    June 7th – June 30th

    As colors collide, Minimalism can be emotional, evoking deep personal feelings while at the same time remaining beautifully simple. Warunkiw’s Hard-edge colorful abstraction works play on geometrical shapes derived from nature and the imagination. The inspiration for his paintings is often times derived from an idea percolating during a dream or meditation session.

    Color and shape merge together on the canvas to express energy as well as peacefulness. The zen like vision evoked by a simple shape on a single colorfield can speak louder than a hundred brushstrokes of many colors, simplifying our visual transcendence through the realm of space and time. On the other side of the artistic coin Warunkiw’s abstract expressionist works play out like the motion of Sufi dervish dancers, sitar riffs or a symphony of impromptu jazz bites. Bouncing, clashing, inviting one to visually feast.

    “Hard-edge keeps me on the edge of something only time will allow me to understand.”
    – Sacha Warunkiw

    Preview and presale for this exhibit will take place Tuesday, June 7th and Wednesday, June 8th

    Exhibit opens to the general public for purchasing on Thursday, June 9th. 

    Hard Edge

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    Mini Abstracts

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    Small Abstracts

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    Artist Biography

    Sacha Warunkiw is an abstract painter and graphic designer born in Edmonton, Alberta. He currently resides in Deseronto, Ontario.

    Warunkiw studied at the California Institute of Arts and his current portfolio includes Hard-edge Abstractions, Abstracts Expressionist works and semi realistic pencil drawings. His preferred mediums are acrylic, oil and watercolor.

    Warunkiw’s work is often created from a place of pure emotion and he is excited by color, composition and visual impact. His work aims to spark something emotional and deeply personal in every viewer.

  • United Gratitude

    United Gratitude


    United Gratitude 

    by Leah Hicks

    March 15th – April 9th

     

    Studio22 Fine Art is pleased to introduce new abstract paintings by artist, Leah Hicks.

    Hicks’ ethereal abstract canvases trigger a parasympathetic response where breathing slows, spirits lift, and a sense of calm envelops the viewer. Each piece is beautifully and purposely constructed with deliberate consideration placed on eye movement, color balance, and textural contrast. Her pieces have universal appeal. 

    This latest body of work not only celebrates the artist’s self-remodel following a life changing accident, but also speaks to her profound longing for a world where equality is universal, peace begets power and acceptance is society’s unifying force.



    Preview and presale
    for this exhibit will take place Tuesday, March 15th and Wednesday, March 16th

    Exhibit opens to the general public for purchase on Thursday, March 17th.

    Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday, March 16th from 4 – 6pm, artist will be in attendance. No food and drink will be served and masks are required. 

    We invite all who can to please come out to our Opening Reception and show our new, out-of-town artist, Leah Hicks, a big, warm Kingston welcome! 

    The Exhibition

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    Artist Statement

    “My artwork is pleasing to the eye and appeals to a wide array of people. I strive to create art that is versatile and timeless. Art is my salvation and constant partner; intense and full of passion.” – Leah Hicks

    Artist Biography

     

    Leah Hicks, born in 1978, is an abstract, acrylic and multimedia artist from Smiths Falls, Ontario. In 2005, a catastrophic car accident turned her passion for art into her salvation. Traumatic brain injuries left her suffering with double vision, an inability to speak clearly and functional limb weakness. She never gave up on her passion for art and learned to paint with her left hand instead of previously dominant right hand. Leah Hicks is represented by galleries in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. Her work has been collected by the Federal Government of Canada as well as held in many private collections.

  • COLOUR BLAST – Erika Olson

    COLOUR BLAST – Erika Olson

    November 7 to December 16, 2017

    COLOUR BLAST

    a collection of new abstract work by Kingston artist Erika Olson

    Erika Olson’s new solo exhibition features a return to the large colourful abstracts which marked the early days of her painting career. After more than a dozen years urgently examining the everyday objects of domesticity and producing the sumptuous still lives for which she has become known, Olson’s work has come full circle.

    Saturated colour schemes remain a constant for Olson, as does her intuitive sense of balancing shapes. By juxtaposing smooth and jagged lines, her new works feel at once edgy and organic. Here, however, her domestic colour palette gives way to the exotic; Indian Miniatures providing a current muse.

    Olson’s re-exploration of abstraction is a gift to the viewer; it’s as if she’s rediscovered some of her most comfortable and beloved old clothes, and by restructuring them, fashioned a tapestry of form and tone.

    These large vibrant works are indeed quintessentially modernist in their inspiration and yet still feel current and original. Don’t miss your chance to see the exciting body of work that is COLOUR BLAST.

    Erika Olson studied fine art at Queens University and earned her BFA from Concordia University. She has had numerous exhibitions and group shows in Kingston, Toronto, Calgary and the United Kingdom.

    COLOUR BLAST; new abstracts by Erika Olson is on exhibit at Studio 22 from Tuesday, November 7 until Saturday December 16, 2017.

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  • REMNANTS – Debra Krakow

    REMNANTS – Debra Krakow

    November 7 to December 16, 2017

    Remnants: finding beauty in transience and decay

    the latest body of work by local artist Debra Krakow

    Working from her picturesque Wolfe Island home studio, artist and architect Debra Krakow watches the seasons unfold.  Lush greens give way to the riotous ochres and siennas of autumn, before succumbing to the hush of winter’s mantle of white.  These weathered landscapes, the evidence of time’s passage, inspire Krakow’s layered, and often expansive and abstracted, canvases.  

    Natural landscapes, sometimes presented as fragments, invite the viewer to look beneath the façade of mere seeing.  They reveal the dignity and subtle structure of memory and perspective.  What lies beyond that which we immediately encounter are the forms of change themselves.  Krakow’s work reminds us that our subjective viewpoints necessarily reflect experience filtered through time and that which we most accurately perceive often demands focused attention and thoughtful exploration.

    “I am drawn to these sparse, quiet landscapes with their vestiges of abundance: cornstalks in frozen fields, dead trees in a flooded pond, detritus on a forest floor.  The signs of aging can be equally evocative and beautiful on human-made surfaces — peeling paint on weathered barn board, a rusty metal door, cracked plaster in an abandoned building.  My working method is a natural fit for exploring the way structures and landscapes morph over time.  I work in layers, selectively revealing or obscuring parts of the layers below to create an evocative surface. Just as a landscape or weathered surface bears hints of its evolution, my painted surfaces reveal a complex history of underlying texture and colour.”—Debra Krakow

    Debra Krakow was born into a creative family in 1965 and has been a free spirit ever since. Torn between her two loves – art and physics –she decided to study architecture.  She graduated from McGill University where she had the privilege of studying life drawing under artist Gentile Tondino.  She developed her artistic practice through courses in painting, printmaking, sculpture, fibre arts and ceramics.

    Her work has been exhibited in her native city of Montreal as well as Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Halifax and New York State.  Her works are fondly displayed in living rooms and offices throughout North America. 

    Remnants: finding beauty in transience and decay is on exhibit at Studio 22 from Tuesday, November 7 until Saturday December 16, 2017.  

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  • THERE – New Acrylic Paintings by Montreal Artist Beverly Zawitkoski

    THERE – New Acrylic Paintings by Montreal Artist Beverly Zawitkoski

    YES, YOU CAN GET ‘THERE’ FROM HERE! 

    THERE, New Works by Beverly Zawitkoski will carry you away. The solo exhibition, on display at Studio 22 Open Gallery, highlights the creative practice of self-expression through paint.

    Zawitoski takes her inspiration from landscapes, though her abstract canvases bring the viewer on an impassioned journey, which travels far beyond the physical realm. Through abstraction, Zawitkoski explains that her goal is “to create an aesthetic that facilitates the exploration of an unknown place that is at once emotionally familiar and visually suggested.” 

    The works are a culmination of years of refined technique. Her process reveals the possibilities of paint, which is layered then deconstructed in a series of steps throughout each work: marks, scratches, lineation, additional layers, densely textured areas and blending all build up the surface, sometimes evoking energetic purpose and at other times transcendent tranquility. She searches continually for unfettered, expressive ways of breathing life into paint’s viscosity and colour, requiring multiple trials before achieving the final composition. Every painting gives her insight into the next work, in turn pulling her forward towards a new series. Zawitkoski credits the constant rhythm of self-questioning with the production of these completed paintings.

    The resulting works are at once a profound exclamation of intent, focusing our attention on the very nature of existence and the complex and elegant process of creation itself, and a subtle reminder that through exploration, you can arrive somewhere both unexpected and exquisite.

    Savour the seduction of subtle colours and gestures in paint; embark on a voyage of personal discovery. Yes, you can get ‘ THERE’ from here!

    Beverly Zawitkoski is a Canadian artist living and working in her native Montreal.  Zawitkoski has exhibited in many solo and group shows in Canada and internationally in the USA, across the UK, and in The Czech Republic’s capital of Prague. THERE will be on display at Studio 22, located at 320 King Street East, Kingston from September 12-October 28, 2017.

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  • Collective Sparks ~ ShagRug 2016

    Collective Sparks ~ ShagRug 2016

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    Communal work sessions ignite collective sparks.

    Studio 22 Open Gallery is delighted to present Collective Sparks, an exhibition of new work by the Shag Rug Collective.

    Composed of some of the most respected and established artists in the Kingston community, the Shag Rug Collective represents an array of diverse styles and varied subject matter.  For many years the members of the artists’ collective, which was named after the yellow shag rug which once adorned the studio of founding member, Erika Olson, have gathered together to inspire and nourish each others creativity.  Each individual brings their own unique perspective to the treasured experience of working together in a group setting, often around a shared still life, and the collective sparks which these gatherings ignite.

    In addition to the animated still lives of Studio 22’s seasoned artists, Erika Olson and Margaret Hughes, the exhibition also includes the vibrant landscapes of Sharon Thompson and Josephine Wren, as well as the imaginative abstraction of Evelyn Rapin, Rose Stewart and Deborah Brown.

    Erika Olson finds inspiration working from life—particularly the perishable and delicate nature of food—elevating the domestic sphere into the realm of art.

    Margaret Hughes, an accomplished ceramicist, painter and pastel artist, often bridges the gap between her various media by drawing images of her own ceramic pieces.

    Sharon Thompson, an artist of diverse inspiration, creates memorable works from landscapes to abstraction, or whatever happens to catch her well trained eye.

    Josephine Wren paints the world around her, in part because the act of creation connects her to her own existence, resulting in lush landscapes and still lives.

    Evelyn Rapin frequently bases her intensely colourful imagery on musical themes, creating lively works of abstraction.

    Rose Stewart’s abstract compositions dance with eclectic forms and vibrant colours.

    Deborah Brown creates intricate and organic abstract drawings.

    Collective Sparks will be on display from November 15 – December 23, 2016.

    Gallery Hours:  Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Thursdays until 8 pm, and Friday Evenings until 10 pm.

  • Patti Emmerson – “As I See It” Gallery

    Patti Emmerson – “As I See It” Gallery

  • As I See It – new acrylic paintings by Patti Leishman

    As I See It – new acrylic paintings by Patti Leishman

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    Patti Leishman (formerly Emmerson) embraces the unexpected and celebrates the rhythms and patterns of life.  Whether out on the trails or strolling the city with her newlywed husband and beloved dog,
    Leishman draws inspiration for her art from her observations of the world around her.

    Since her return to her hometown roots in Kingston and her artistic debut in 2013, Leishman has produced an astonishing body of work and amassed an enthusiastic following.  Her paintings speak to the beauty and abstract rhythms of life—in them she captures the artistry of the everyday, as she sees it.

    To produce these images, Leishman likes to say she “throws caution to the wind.”  Through her riotous painting techniques—rollers, knives, squeegees, and a fair dose of whimsy, surprising results unfold.  By following the paint where it leads, Leishman’s abstract canvasses erupt with colour and texture, expressing her unique interpretation of beauty and her zest for life.

     As I See It

    new acrylic paintings
    Patti (Emmerson) Leishman
    July 12 to August 21, 2016
  • Horizons – Exhibition

    Horizons – Exhibition

  • Audio Interview with Patti Emmerson

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  • Studio interview with Patti Emmerson

    Studio interview with Patti Emmerson

    Patti Emmerson is bursting with energy as she invites me into her home. She speaks with her hands and greets me with a smile on her face which truly sets the tone as I enter the small room that acts as her studio. The floors are splattered with paint and the walls are covered with Patti’s art.

    Some of the pieces filling the room look almost too big to have possibly been created there. Patti explains that she works on the floor and takes up the whole room with her process. As a physical person she moves with her art and moves to music as she creates. She starts each day by cranking up her stereo and allowing herself to get into the physicality of her work.

    As we continue talking I look around and realize that there is something missing from this art studio – there are no brushes. Patti laughs as she tells me that she uses anything and everything, except brushes, to move her paint. She creates her abstract scenes with a myriad of painters tools but doesn’t feel the brush can do exactly what she wants in this body of work.

    As I look around the art itself leaves me staggered in the doorway. Though the pieces are still in progress they are already complex with strong texture and movement jumping off each canvas. Beside each piece sits a small, polaroid sized photograph of a scene. Patti uses these photos, most taken by the artist herself, as a base for a new painting.

    The photos, in contrast with the abstracted paintings, give the viewer a timeline of the artist’s process and her more recent experiences. The collection of photographs were taken in a combination of Fernie, BC; Patti’s home for the past twenty years and in Kingston, ON; where Patti now resides.

    My viewing of the body of work leaves me feeling refreshed and excited. Patti’s energy is evident in each piece. From wall to wall I am taken on an adventure down unreal streets, up abstracted mountains, and through obscure forests.

    Standing and looking between a photographic scene of reality and a canvas bursting with incomprehensible colour and texture I find myself catching a brief glimpse into the mind of Patti Emmerson.

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  • 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

  • Inside Debra Krakow’s Studio

    Inside Debra Krakow’s Studio

    Local artist Debra Krakow lives with her family on Wolfe Island in a beautiful self-designed home.  As an architect Krakow designed the house for her young family in the mid 90s.  At the top of this tall, yellow structure sits a small, bright studio, tailor made by and for the artist who resides in it.

    Walking through the family home I am bombarded with colour and texture filling all possible hanging space on the walls.  I am charmed by the beautiful music floating from the piano in the living room, filling the whole house (not to mention the homemade cookies and peppermint tea I am offered upon arrival).

    The art, though covering a spectrum of styles and mediums, is amazingly produced by the same artist.  Krakow uses her home and personal space as a platform to display her art to her family and guests when it’s not being shown in galleries throughout Ontario.

    While climbing the final stairs to reach the glowing room at the peak of the house I find myself entering a blooming garden of warm colours and textures just leaping off every wall and surface.  Looking out the windows I can see a full one-hundred and eighty degrees along the shore of the island and up the road.  The space is light and, though chilly in the winter, it’s warm in colour and more full of life than the view outside the windows.

    The warm tones in Debra’s work draw me closer as I examine each piece in the room.  She explains her process of adding quilting and sewing techniques to her paintings and shows me each of her tools and brushes in great detail.

    In the far right corner of the room there are four pieces hanging together which perfectly demonstrate the techniques being described to me.  On top of the 3-D brush strokes on the canvases hang gorgeous patterns of thread in even brighter and warmer tones.

    One piece becomes reminiscent of a glistening yellow spider web hanging from small branches as the sun sets behind.  Another is a garden with beautiful thread vines growing throughout.  The textures created by the thread are wonderfully woven and sewn into the foreground, seemingly just sitting atop the canvas.

    Each piece has a feeling unique to itself but together Krakow’s work flows into a common theme.  Her body of work feels natural, growing, and full of life.

    Not all of the pieces are abstractions of nature, though.  Many of the works consist of massive, sweeping brush strokes which carry your eye from each corner of the canvas.  The artist talks me through the very process of creating these pieces; moving large, wet globs of paint onto a canvas spread on the floor of her studio.

    The paint spattered floor shows a history of her process, a timeline of the works created there.

    The house, the studio and the artistic family within it were all created by the very same artist.  Debra Krakow’s body of work is ever expanding past the walls of her home and her beautiful space.

     

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