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Amenta studied at York University and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts in 2000. Since then she has worked as a portrait artist, illustrator and set painter. Amenta now resides with her family in the Ottawa area and shows regularly at various galleries throughout the region. Amenta’s current body of work explores social exposure and loss of personal identity in an urban setting.
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Changing the need for change
2009
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Amos' paintings begin with a familiar scene that develops into a metaphor for change and transition. Born in Kapuskasing in 1953, Amos has seen most of Canada, lived many years in Toronto and currently has her studio in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. Amos graduated from the University of Waterloo and has taught at the Alberta College of Art. Amos has won two public art competitions and her work is in the US Library of Congress. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, RBC Dominion Securities and Esso Resources are a few of the organizations that have added her work to their collections. Barbara Amos’ paintings are in private collections in North America and Europe.
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Blue city nocturne
2009
Oil on canvas
Diptych - 36 x 48 inches
Bok was born in Seoul, Korea in 1983. At the age of 15 Bok came to Canada to study. Bok recently graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing and painting. Min-Young Bok’s work has always been defined and influenced by the medium. Wood and traditional Korean rice papers have been a source of inspiration along with encaustic layered underneath resin. This non-traditional medium challenges the viewer by asking, ‘is it a painting or a sculpture?’ Min-Young Bok recreates memories of her own childhood by using playful subject matter such as spinning tops and other toys.
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Untitled 10-2
2007
Acrylic, resin & encaustic on Board
15-1/4 x 10 inches
Over the past 22 years Bill Boyko worked as a successful free-lance graphic artist and illustrator. Boyko’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, books, television, murals and film in North America. He uses many different mediums to create his pieces on paper, canvas, wood, and metal. In recent years Bill Boyko has shifted into creating major commissions for both private and corporate settings.
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Miami
2007
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
50 x 58 inches
Capolongo is a Canadian artist of Italian descent. He has been in some 130 exhibitions, including over 22 solo shows. Broadly represented in private and corporate collections internationally, his work is also in a growing number of public collections. Capolongo is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the internationally coveted Elizabeth Greenshields Award, of which he is a rare triple recipient since 1995. Typically bringing a contemporary edge to traditional genres, one of the artist’s most recent series, ‘Eye Candy’, explores the evocative sensuality of food in paintings that drip and ooze with subtle allusions. While Bruno works in various painting media, his reputation as a master of encaustic medium grows steadily.
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Eye Candy Series: Triple Chocolate Mousse
2008
Oil on panel
8 x 9 inches
Since 1967, when her first bronze sculpture was exhibited during the Montreal Expo, Christina Grace has been on a lifelong journey in the pursuit of artistic expression. Grace’s training, education and experience in art including a mentorship with sculptor Sorel Etrog, has taken her from her homeland of Canada to Europe, through the Middle East, South America, China and throughout the United States.
Grace’s gestural art evokes intuitive imagery. All works are highly textured, drawing from her early experience as a sculptor. Christina Grace’s work has been curated into several significant private and corporate abstract art collections and exhibited in both Canada & the United States.
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Untitled
2010
Acrylic on canvas
42 x 36 inches
