Photo by Jack Barten
As a mixed media abstract artist, I specialize in both painting and sculpture, with a heavy focus on acrylic painting combined with sculptural components. Using elements like texture and color, my works are created and inspired by scenery and experiences around me. Since my graduation from Lakehead University, my most current body of work has been a combination of my learned painting, linked with sculptural techniques By combining these two practices I have created abstracted works that showcase my inspirations.
With my duel Bachelor of Honors in Visual Arts and Concurrent Education, there are many things that inspire me as an artist. Inspirations such as my own emotional state at certain times in my life, interactions with people around me, and the emotional and physical connection humans have with nature. My interest in bringing forth an emotional response in my work, allowing the audience to consider the deeper meaning in the relationships we hold with everything around us, is the foundation for my artistic inspiration.
Through life experience, my art has the capability of bringing a person into a world unlike their own reality. By interlacing different mediums and brushing them onto a canvas, my training and further growth has given me the opportunity to showcase depth and beauty in a dramatic and approachable way. My hope is to create bodies of work that can connect people to past emotional experience while transporting the audience to a new space.
Photo by Lucas Augustyn
Photo by Lucas Augustyn
Exhibitions
2024 Members Show, Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2023 Sobering Thoughts Part II, Bight Restaurant & Bar, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2023 Sobering Thoughts Part I, Co.Lab Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2023 Group Show, Galeria Azur, Berlin, Germany
2022 Solo Show, Mariners Hall Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2021 Triumph Exhibition, Collaborated Show, Mariners Hall Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2020 Blue, Solo Show, Mariners Hall Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2020 Solo Show, In Common Restaurant, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2020 Art Fair, Y-Art Sale, Die Active Art Collective, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2019 Art Auction Donation, Thunder Bay Ski Club, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2019 Solo Show, Bean Fiend Café, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2018 Emergence, Solo Show, Mariners Hall Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2018 Members show, Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2018 Urban Infill, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2018 Retro Grad, Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Ontario
2018 Lakehead University Major Studio, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2018 Lakehead University Juried Show, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2017 Lakehead University Juried Show, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2017 Urban Infill, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2016 Definitely Superior Juried Show, Definitely Superior Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2016 Urban Infill, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2015 Lakehead University Juried Show, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2014 Lakehead University Juried Show, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Awards
2018 Rust Check award for Chosen work, Lakehead University Juried Show
2017 Humanities award for best Sculpture, Lakehead University Juried Show
2017 Lakehead University Alumni Purchase Prize, Lakehead University Juried Show
2015 Body Mind Centre for Chosen work, Lakehead University Juried Show
Publications
2024 Artist/Entrepreneur Highlight, Canvas Rebel online Blog, June 2024
2022 Artist Spotlight, Create Magazine Issue #29, March 2022
2022 Artist Spotlight Review, The Walleye Thunder Bay’s Arts & Cultures Alternative, January 2022
2018 Annual Major Studio Exhibtion review, TB Newswatch, March 18, 2018 https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/art-gallery-hosting-work-of-lu-art-students-865444
2018 “Debris finds new function,” Chronical Journal, April 26, 2018
Photo by Jack Barten