Artist Statement - Elena Petrova
I thought art was a discovery.
It got more complicated down the road.
I remember when I was painting ‘You’re a luminous being’, it was like playing basketball with bunch of kids on the playground. You are here, they are here, you go there, they swarm there.
It felt something like tsunami.
I was overwhelmed joyfully with what I was going to paint and what was coming out of me because of the tsunami.
“These were good old days” they say.
It got much more complicated than that.
I read a book about James Rosenquist. How he was going ‘below zero’ in his art. He was trying to dissolve his intentions, thoughts. And he did it very visually in his humongous paintings.
Suddenly after Rosenquist I understood that art is not a discovery, it’s ‘knowing’. ‘Knowing’ is my tsunami.
Like with my ‘Pride’, I “knew” this girl from George Brown college, she was in her twenties, had a 7 y.o. son, lived some where near Jane/Finch still with her parents. She looked strong, but she wasn’t that strong, she actually didn’t look strong at all. But she tried to be proud of herself. I “knew” this girl. I was her.
I suddenly understood: in my art I am that tsunami.
I have always been.
It got more complicated down the road.
I remember when I was painting ‘You’re a luminous being’, it was like playing basketball with bunch of kids on the playground. You are here, they are here, you go there, they swarm there.
It felt something like tsunami.
I was overwhelmed joyfully with what I was going to paint and what was coming out of me because of the tsunami.
“These were good old days” they say.
It got much more complicated than that.
I read a book about James Rosenquist. How he was going ‘below zero’ in his art. He was trying to dissolve his intentions, thoughts. And he did it very visually in his humongous paintings.
Suddenly after Rosenquist I understood that art is not a discovery, it’s ‘knowing’. ‘Knowing’ is my tsunami.
Like with my ‘Pride’, I “knew” this girl from George Brown college, she was in her twenties, had a 7 y.o. son, lived some where near Jane/Finch still with her parents. She looked strong, but she wasn’t that strong, she actually didn’t look strong at all. But she tried to be proud of herself. I “knew” this girl. I was her.
I suddenly understood: in my art I am that tsunami.
I have always been.
Artist Biography - Elena Petrova
Elena Petrova is a Canadian painter who immigrated to Canada in 1999 from Russia.
She lives in Whitby, Ontario with her husband and two sons.
Elena exhibited her work in Canada and US.
Elena is a joyful explorer of life and her paintings reflect her journey.
www.elenasartstudio.com
She lives in Whitby, Ontario with her husband and two sons.
Elena exhibited her work in Canada and US.
Elena is a joyful explorer of life and her paintings reflect her journey.
www.elenasartstudio.com
Artist Statement - Sophie Diais
Sophie Diais is dedicated to exhibiting her art in galleries all around the world and selling her photographs online. She started shooting photographs by walking around cities. She's inspired by the reflections of the displays of big shops in cities like New York, Paris, Barcelona... trying to find in every photo an overlay of various elements to get a complex composition. Her photos are based on geometric compositions and visual balance. She brings attention to landscapes around the streets which are often hidden. She teaches the viewers to see the city as special items and not as a huge mass. She composes photos by contrast of light and dark, bright colors and reflections, to reveal an unexplored world, a place of curious self-expression.
Artist Biography - Sophie Diais
Sophie Diais is a French photographer, born in Rennes, France, 1978. She now lives in Barcelona, Spain. Attracted by reflections and contrasts, She started shooting when she was living in Italy 7 years ago. She exhibited in Spanish cities Barcelona and Madrid, and in French galleries in Nantes and Antibes. She also started working with "Crisolart Galleries", a gallery from Barcelona and participated in a collectie exhibition in New York, USA in 2011.
WEBSITE: www.puntolineadesign.com
BLOG: wwwsophiediais.blogspot.com
WEBSITE: www.puntolineadesign.com
BLOG: wwwsophiediais.blogspot.com
Past Exhibitions
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