About Vadim Vaskovsky
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Education
2019 - 2019
Holy Trinity Monastery
2013 - 2013
The Glass Station
2005 - 2007
Studio West
1999 - 2001
Irakli Shavgulidze Studio
1990 - 1995
Odessa State Polytechnic University
1986 - 1990
Grekov College of Art
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Event: Group Exhibition at Hayloft Art Gallery
Dates: 6 Sep 2021 - 1 Oct 2021
Group Exhibition at Hayloft Art Gallery, Bloomfield, ON, Canada, 2021
Twelve paintings and 18 wood block art prints from "North Wind" series.
Event: Guitars and Moons
Dates: 7 Jul 2020 - 15 Aug 2020
Fifteen painting solo show.
Event: EVERY DAY IS VALENTINE'S DAY
Dates: 9 Feb 2019 - 23 Feb 2019
Group Exhibition at C9ART GALLERY, Yorkville, Toronto, 2019
Event: Winter Portfolio Series
Dates: 18 Jan 2018 - 18 Feb 2018
Winter Portfolio Series. Studio 22. Kingston, ON, Canada. 2018
Event: North Wind
Dates: 11 Sep 2016 - 28 Sep 2016
Series of linocuts. Studio 22. Kingston, ON, Canada. 2016
Event: Days and Nights
Dates: 21 Jul 2015 - 23 Aug 2015
Days and Nights solo show. Studio 22. Kingston, ON, Canada. 2015
Event: Blooms, Breezes & Bergs
Dates: 12 Apr 2012 - 15 May 2012
“Blooms, Breezes & Bergs” exhibition. Red Ochre Gallery. 2012
Event: Painting Life
Dates: 12 Aug 2011 - 12 Sep 2011
“Painting Life” exhibition. Peter Lewis Gallery. St.Johns, NL, Canada. 2011
Event: Sunny Days
Dates: 12 Oct 2010 - 30 Oct 2010
“Sunny Days” exhibition. Arts and Culture Centre. Corner Brook, NL, Canada, 2010
Biography
Professional artist since 1999. Numerous exhibitions in leading Canadian galleries, as well as in galleries in Ukraine (Odessa, Kiev).My art works can be found in private and public collections in Europe, Canada and the United States.
I work in a broad range of mediums and subjects, as an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. I experiment all the time. That is why I change themes and styles as often as I change a place of living. Asia dazzles me with its saturation. Black Sea coast reminds me of ancient myths. Cuba makes my lines dance. The Newfoundland landscape teaches me moderation and silence.
My art is about telling stories yet trying to find a breaking point when painting material applied on canvas, transforms into what it represents. I want strokes and fills to remain material in its texture, shape and pigment to achieve an ornamental look of the painting. Brushes, palette knives, combs, sticks are used in the impasto method of applying oil or acrylic paints.
I pull out objects of depiction onto the surface of the canvas or set them visually in front or behind the surface. Work knows what it wants. Form tells me about itself. I paint and translate. This language has its main roots in synthetic cubism developed by Picasso and Braque a hundred years ago. I found it quite flexible for what I presently want to do in search of concrete forms of my sensations and perceptions to get to the heart of what is before me.
