Location: Canada
Here is a multitalented artist who
regularly moves between the visual art and film work. Occasionally he has
combined these interests from dedicating poems to particular paintings and
self-publishing these chapbooks, or by being inspired to write short fiction
based on a figurative painting. The abstract work has also been applied as a
design to textiles in the on-line fashion world. The artist has been actively
been painting in oils since transitioning form a figurative –naif style in the
late nineties and has been inspired by the use of geometrical elements in
Kandinsky’s works and the use of cubic shapes by Picasso and the play of
various planes in the works of Escher. He is captivated by the geometrical
elements that exist and how they may be manipulated to give the appearance of a
third dimension or dimensions that are not apparent upon first viewings. He has
recently chosen what appears to be multidimensional on a canvas/paper called
Multidimensional Views. Those views have progressed from sharp geomerical forms to a more flowing palette. Any resemblance to what is actual is nonintentional;
the viewer gets a sense of what can be interpreted as a vivid abstraction of
buildings, land and seascapes topped with geometrical forms at times or an
abstract “sky”. Of late the compositions may resemble the rolling waves at sea or curvy weaved patterns.
Here I have stepped back from the figurative and have explored more geometrical designs in an effort to create a vibrating surface of color and a challenging multidimensional perspective.
This image builds on the geometrical elements but concentrates more on interlocking pyramids and their passageways
exploring geometrical art forms here
Watercolour and tempera paintings will eventually consist of neurographic art, seascapes, landscapes, family portraiture, still life, and cityscapes. These works will explore social themes as the disappearance of part of my family in the last war, as they will explore my views of contemporary life and scenes in Montreal and other cities. They may include abstract pieces as the Yellow and Blue piece, a symbolic reference to the distress in Ukraine because it is an adorned, upside down flag.
Inspired from a photo of some family members who were killed during WWII
with reference to a distressed Ukraine and to commemorate its struggle to survive
Used as a cover picture for a short film of the same title I directed in 2006