Tag: acrylic

  • HORIZONS – New Works by Debra Krakow

    HORIZONS – New Works by Debra Krakow

    horiZons

    Wolfe Island architect creates large abstract landscapes that turn interior walls into horizons.  

    Studio 22 is very pleased to announce the launch of our 2016 solo season with a new body of large works from local artist Debra Krakow opening Tuesday, April 12, 2016.

    All it takes is the subtlest hint of a horizon line for our minds to see landscape in an abstract painting. We’re drawn to wide-open spaces and expansive views, and landscape paintings connect us to these places. The concept of abstract landscape allows me incredible artistic freedom and yet grounds the work in visual experience.  – Debra Krakow

    Horizons is Krakow’s third show with Studio22.  Evolving Surfaces (Spring 2014), acrylic and mixed media, explored abstracts from a textural perspective and Crows (Summer 2015), acrylics on paper, was created watching crows from a mountaintop in the south of India.

    Debra Krakow is a Canadian artist and architect. Her luminous and evocative abstract paintings express her deeply felt connection to the natural world.

    Debra was born a free spirit in 1965 and took the women’s movement and the do-your-own-thing motto to heart. 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 educator and artist Gentile Tondino. Since then she has developed her artistic practice through courses in painting, printmaking, sculpture, fibre arts and ceramics. Recent workshops with artist Lila Lewis Irving have had a strong influence. She works out of her Wolfe Island studio, overlooking acres of fields and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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

    Horizons is on exhibit at Studio 22 from Tuesday, April 12 until Sunday May 15, 2016.

    Gallery Hours:  Tuesday to Sunday – 11 to 5 pm & Thursday and Friday evenings to 8pm and 10pm

  • 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.

     

















  • Julie Davidson Smith ~ New Gravity

  • An Informal Conversation with Julie Davidson Smith

    An Informal Conversation with Julie Davidson Smith

    https://soundcloud.com/studio22-sounds/an-informal-conversation-with-aviva-jacob-julie-davidson-smith

  • New Gravity ~ Acrylic paintings by Julie Davidson Smith

    New Gravity ~ Acrylic paintings by Julie Davidson Smith

    New Gravity

    Julie Davidson Smith ~ Acrylic Paintings

    February 24 to April 5, 2015

     

    This is Julie Davidson Smith’s first solo show in Kingston and her first exhibit with Studio22.  It is also her largest body of work to date.

    After becoming a mother a few years ago, Julie altered her practice to accommodate the presence of her child.  Acrylics became her mainstay and she has worked over the past 2 years to put together a body of work that is exhibit-ready.  Studio22 is delighted to be able to offer Kingston first dibs at these vibrant, life affirming new works.

    A graduate from Concordia University’s Fine Arts program Julie has 20 years of experience exhibiting art professionally and sharing her knowledge as an instructor not only in her studio but for Queen’s University, the Limestone District Schoolboard, Providence Care’s Community Recovery Connections Program and the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre.  Julie is a multi-award-winning artist with several Best of Show awards for juried exhibitions in Kingston.

    Artist Statement:

    Being creative has always been about the joy of making something and the challenge of solving visual puzzles and expressing myself in a realm without limits or rules – a place of mystery. I let my subconscious become the pilot that directs the flow and feeling behind my work, images of drifting bodies in foreign landscapes, clouds, rain and shapes erupting like a birth are constants in my visual language. The ritual of applying paint is a translation of my life experiences and an outlet for my desire to find and create beauty that is meaningful and seductive. This makes me feel alive, being surprised by what unfolds and giving my memories and ideas a voice.

    Seeds of inspiration and influence were planted years ago by discovering the vibrant art of the late Henri Matisse, Paterson Ewen, Georgia O’Keeffe and recently by British artist Tom Hammick. Their art is rich with mystery; I am inspired by their use of colour and their emotional landscapes. I embrace the unknown territory of art making, I seek to discover what waits for me there on the other side.

    ~ Julie Davidson Smith

     

    Gallery Hours:

    Tuesday to Sunday – 11 to 5 pm & evenings Thursday (to 8pm) and Friday (to 10pm).

     

  • Audio Interview with Patti Emmerson

    https://soundcloud.com/studio22-sounds/aviva-jacob-interviews-patti-emmerson-artist

  • 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.

    Written by Aviva Jacob

  • 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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