Have you met…Karl Bielik?

Introductions can be wonderful things. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends through an introduction. Sometimes you can be introduced to your new favorite food, television show, or artist. I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists.

The artist I’d like to introduce you to is the painter and musician Karl Bielik.

Karl Bielik
Pram [2010]
Oil on canvas (500 mm x 400 mm)

Karl Bielik lives and works in London.

Working on a multitude of paintings at a time, Karl Bielik’s brew of abstractions are developed in batches.
Irregular canvases cover his studio walls and floors, where he shifts from one painting to another, experimenting playfully with mark making.
Formal lines taken from photographs and diagrams contrast loose oily wounds, thick emulsions offset light glazes and dribbles.
In contrast to this emotive imagery, banal solitary words form Bielik’s titles, tempering and balancing the melancholy character of his paintings.

Karl Bielik also writes and performs in Lark.

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Wednesday studio photograph. Green point.

I’m still experimenting with the camera on my Samsung phone. It’s a handy device to have in my studio for taking quick snaps to upload to my blog. This studio photograph was taken using the green point setting.

Long Series #1298.

#1298

Have you met…Becka Viau?

Introductions can be wonderful things. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends through an introduction. Sometimes you can be introduced to your new favorite food, television show, or artist. I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists.

The artist I’d like to introduce you to is the multi – discipline artist Becka Viau.

THE SOVEREIGN – 03 – 2012 – DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH

Becka Viau is an Artist from Charlottetown Prince Edward Island. She received her BFA, 2008 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has worked as a curator, educator and coordinator of arts collectives, and much of her artistic activity engages with questions relating to the institutions, dissemination and social networks of art and culture.

Her art practice is grounded in the research of historic and contemporary photographic techniques, theories of the everyday and social research methods. The histories of documentary, portraiture, cultural presentation and anthropological research influence her creative studio process through various explorations of people, place and identity.

The form of the artwork Becka produces generally appeals to a popular audience. It draws them in with inviting architecture and welcomes the viewer to wander a variety of conceptual paths.

“For me the creation of art must communicate to a popular audience in order to stimulate conversations around current issues and experiences.” – Becka Viau

Viau has exhibited in many galleries throughout the Maritimes, including Struts Gallery, Anna Leonowens Gallery and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. She was long listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2011 and is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Art degree at NSCAD University.

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