Tag: Oil Pastel

  • CONVERSATIONS

    CONVERSATIONS

    Conversations 

    by Erika Olson

    October 27th – November 28th

     

     Part of  Studio22’s 2020 vision idiom A Different Point of View.

     

    Preview and presale for these exhibits will take place from Tuesday, October 27th to Friday, October 30th. Exhibit opens to the general public for purchase on Saturday, October 31st.

    On Thursday evening, October 29th at 8pm, Studio22 will be hosting a Live Stream Exhibit Opening featuring Debra Krakow and Erika Olson and the Studio22 team. All customers, subscribers and members of the general public are invited to login to view the exhibit and interact with the artists from the comfort of their own home.

    The Exhibition

    Cupcake by Me

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    Espresso and Cake

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    Lemoncello Cake

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    Long After Matisse

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    Parfait on White

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    Sumac

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    Velvet Cake

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    Artist Statement

    “These paintings and drawings delight in conversations and celebrations. The cakes are inspired by vintage images from Betty Crocker’s New Picture Cookbook from the 60’s given to my mother when she was married. According to Betty Crocker “cakes are the food of the gods…. (and) an ingenious nun created the forerunner of our fine textured, delicately flavoured cakes by creaming butter and sugar for two hours.” Two hours!

    We mainly have cakes at celebratory functions, birthdays, graduations, Christmas, retirement parties, reunions and most especially weddings. Events that have been curtailed or cancelled or postponed due to Covid 19.

    The smaller pastels are about conversations where the objects take the place of people. I feel that the objects in my still lifes are anthropomorphic and they are communicating and conversing with one another. “Coffee with You” is the yearning for a stimulating conversation over coffee depicted by two coffee mugs with a bright and colourful background and “Tea in the Garden with You” is a reference to being able to be outdoors, social distancing but speaking in person. Larger pieces are a closed circuit of communication, dialogues or soliloquies or larger conversations about more formal elements of a painting. The objects speak for themselves and although they are still lives they tell stories about who we are.”

    – Erika Olson

    Erika Olson
     

    Erika Olson began her fine -art studies at Queen’s University. She then attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She completed her BFA at Concordia University in 1997 concentrating on painting and relocated to Kingston to set up her art practice. 
     
    Erika has shown in Kingston, Toronto and Calgary and in the UK represented by the Innocence Gallery. 

  • 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.

     

     

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