Algoma Paintings – Karin Doleske – solo exhibition.
Karin Doleske's paintings are poetic expressions of the movement, dance, violence and serenity beneath surface reality. The Algoma Paintings, which started as a personal inquiry into the motivations behind her art, evolved into a dynamic expression of the human reality behind such ideas as regionalism, being “Canadian,” and recognizing one's membership in a world community. By mending canvasses she'd torn, cut, burned, and then painting her own pathways through life on the surface, and by using minimal means of brush stroke and symbolic colour, Karin's compelling imagery speaks powerfully about volatile yet subtle forces at play in an evolving social landscape. “I start by establishing an order which evolves to disorder, which then reorganizes to a deeper state of coherence.” Algoma District is a district in northern Ontario which is larger than England. It takes eight hours to drive from end to end. Doleske's intimate knowledge of this physical environment and its people animates her artistic process.

STUDIO VOGUE Gallery – representing mid-career and emerging artists from Canada and around the world.

(See also Calls for Artists – click here).