Artist Art

“Jennie Lau is an emerging artist and currently pursuing the BFA degree in the Drawing & Painting program at OCAD University. Her art works consist of paintings, collages, time-based media and installations. The media of her paintings include acrylic, oil, watercolor and ink. She has participated in local art shows and exhibitions in Toronto, including 2016 ~ 2019 Del’s Calling All Artists Art Shows, 2018 University of Toronto’s ARTSIDEOUT Festival, and 2018 OCAD U Drawing at First Site Art Show.”

Template: Amazon

“Richard Barbot is a Haitian artist. His paintings can transport you to a space where the viewer (spectator) is at the border of two worlds. The shape and the color of one hand vibrate on its canvas to create a fairy space almost disturbing and on the other hand, his dexterity translates to a work of research and mastery. While some of his works can sometimes be in a dreamlike world, his realism is fragrant because the portraits always seek to capture the unique part of the model with precision.”

Template: Horizon

“Rachael Grad is a Toronto-based artist, mom of three and recovered lawyer who has studied and worked in the US, France, Italy and Hong Kong. While constantly creating art, In 2008, she left practicing law and committed to studying painting full-time in New York City. She holds degrees from Brandeis University, Duke University School of Law and Sciences Po (Paris). Her artwork has been shown in solo and group shows in Washington, DC, New York City, Venice, Italy, and the Toronto area.”

Template: Sierra

“Martin Brouillette is a French-Canadian painter based in London, U.K. His work has been shown In Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, New York and London. His approach to painting refers to Formalism and it involves the exploration of digital media. Canadian financial institutions such as Desjardins and the Royal Bank of Canada have collected his paintings. Born: 1971 (48 years old), Montreal, Canada Education: UQÀM, Université du Québec à Montréal ”

Template: Offset

“Byron Hodgins received a B.F.A from Nova Scotia School of Art and Design. He lives and works in Ottawa and has exhibited across Canada. He is fascinated with documenting the most ordinary parts of the every day and the imaginary life inspired by nature. His work has been featured by organizations such as Magazine 1968, and reviewed by the Toronto Star.”

Template: Post

“Devon Rodriguez is an artist based in the South Bronx, works primarily with oil on wood panels. If he’s not painting strangers on the subway, you’ll find him working on a commission, or photographing new subjects to paint. ”

Template: Horizon Left

“Rafael Rix (born 1963) is an abstract artist, art historian and medieval palaeographer. He divides his time between the UK and Italy. Rafael works with ink and paper, and occasionally with paint and canvas. His background in medieval manuscripts influences his art, which has a sharply graphic quality, and shows a fascination with the interaction of pigment and surface, liquidity, translucence, texture, and the effect of varying contact pressure on pen- or brush-drawn lines. ”

Template: Amazon

“Tara McPherson is an artist based in New York. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. Her portraits explore the realms of our psychological states, inspired by myths, legends, astronomy, physics, nature, love, loss, childhood, and good old life experience. Giving us a peek into the complexities of the human psyche through her other worldly characters.”

Template: Slate

“Hannah Kim Varamini is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. She was born in Washington, D.C. to first-generation Korean immigrants. She received her BFA from Cornell University and MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her work employs language and symbology to examine ideologies of nationalism and articulate stories of the postcolonial experience, diaspora, and cultural hybridity. In 2008, she spent a life-changing year in Namibia on a Fulbright fellowship.”

Template: Ora

“Riel is a multimedia artist who received an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin (2018), and a BFA in Photography from the Maine College of Art (2012). Riel’s fine art practice extends through poetry, photography, design, sound, videography, and book-making and explores topics of queer identity, language, and vulnerability.”

Template: Horizon