Left Brain Artists
Wire sculptures The opening chapter of our new project starts with the introduction of two female artists who create using a wire line – transparent hanging sculptures, tri-dimensional drawings, installations.. Organic hanging crocheted wire sculptures of iconic Ruth Asawa meet exaggerated wire faces popping out of canvases of Fiona Morley. Separated by time and cultures, […]
Oil sketches by Tom Thompson Escaping a ‘hamster wheel’ of daily grind, for twenty years now I found a solace and calming peace on Madawaska river – on our 2.5 acres of untouched nature, deep waters shimmering with mirages of seasonal colors, a bliss of cleansing in deep waters of the lake and immersing in […]
Sculptures of Ivan Eyre McMichael’s art collections in Kleinburg hosts a sculpture garden – grand-scale black shiny statues against green screen of leafs and intermingled nature paths. Surprising, stunning, Egyptian, modern, indigenous – hard to find a footing in this encounter. A little out of place, yet primal as the nature surrounding them. Admittedly, little […]
Silk scarf painting Luxurious, soft, waving – silk has been a symbol of natural, beautiful, and indulgent. For millennia. It is hard to imagine a fiber having such a rich history. Legend has it that the process for making silk cloth was first invented by the wife of the Yellow Emperor, Leizu, around the year 2696 […]
Pre-Colombian Art Montreal Museum of Fine Arts hosted several exhibits this summer 2023 – the first one we explored in a rush to absorb all art Montreal can offer, left us in awe and reverence – a ‘Portable Universe’. ‘Portable’ because the art transcends centuries. ‘Universe’ because the artifacts embodied a philosophy of life, values, […]
Surrealism and collages of Jasmine Kukic My first serious attraction to art was surrealism. Andre Breton’s manifesto, Marcelle Duchamp, da-da, Chirico, Dali, of course – a young soul searching for the identity in subconscious, mysterious, illogical, defying ‘prescribed, ordinary, routine’. The attraction never stopped since then – only recently, though, I realized that it was […]
Jasmine Kukic – Collage Artist Minka is close to heart – to me and now to all of us. A compatriot and friend who lived and worked in Ottawa as professional artist for over 20 years before moving back to Belgrade. Jasminka is a collage artist. She is also a solemate…in our shared interests in […]
Gel plate monoprintig on rice paper Inspirations often come ‘out of nowhere’. Triggers unexpected, associations borne from chance. Here is one that created a frenzy of activity, a binge almost. Thoughtful, nevertheless. Recently, Hung went on a tour through galleries of New York City, rejoicing in ‘in person’ encounters with New York school artists, her […]
Murals and Street Art This Pink Floyd’s song is a rebellion of my youth – I was an exemplary student of mathematics by the day and a member of a secretive avant-garde multi-media art group by the night. We did not do graffiti but did glue artistic posters on walls and lamp posts of cobblestone […]
Photography, art history etc. Traveling photos are snapshots of an instant impression, attraction, moment…taken in passing without thinking or an effort to accomplish compositional balance or photographic perfection…they are very personal experience… yet sometimes they ‘transcend’ into an universal memory, a recognition of an archetypal place in our experience… Nothing much more to say…this is […]
Left Brain Artists