July 2010, The Elaine
Fleck Gallery
Presents
“RENEWED” new work by
Amy Shackleton Maggie Broda Julie Campagna
Amy Shackleton has burst onto the Canadian contemporary art scene at the young
age of 23, after graduating with a BFA from York University, with her work
grabbing the attention of collectors and new buyers far and wide. Her paintings
of post-industrial worlds amalgamate the cool calculated lines of urban
architecture with rural environments from Peru to Eastern Europe. Using various
techniques and media such as acrylic washes, erratic paint drips and shiny
enamel, she creates alternate worlds filled with saturated colours in dreamlike
landscapes. Shackleton brings interdependent elements together to form unique
and dynamic environments that ask us to re-imagine the possibilities for our
urban landscape.
Maggie Broda OCT, BFA, AOCA is a painter, educator and an art and
environmental activist. Her work is colourful and textured abstracted figures
in motion. “The actions of people fascinate me - not their faces or clothes or
bodies so much, but their actions and disciplines.” Her work has been exhibited
in many Toronto locations and is in private collections including the
Hamilton's Women's Art Association, Anglican Church of Canada and others.
Julie
Campagna HBFA, has for the past twenty years
consistently produced and exhibited her bronze sculptures. Julie is that rare breed of observer and
artist that can express the human condition in a profoundly insightful way; she
humors, challenges, ridicules and renews.
September 2010, The Elaine Fleck Gallery
Presents
“Major
Art” new work by
Kathy Kissik
Look
forward to An Evening of New Work and Divine Company, a
meet and greet with world renowned artist, the incomparable Kathy Kissik, Opening Night Thursday, September
9th, 2010.
Kissik creates one of kind mixed media works utilizing photographs,
paint, plaster, wood, metal and found objects. Surfaces and textures figure
prominently, while the palette primarily consists of muted tones and varying
shades of gray. The effects of time and the changes that occur through decay
and motion are unifying themes in her work. For Kissik, time functions as a
metaphor for the human condition.
Kissik is a Miami-based artist currently in residence at the South Beach
Art Center. Her work has been featured in three solo shows in Ireland, as well
as galleries in Toronto, Boston, Rhode Island and Naples, FL. Kissik is a two
time recipient of both the Pollock-Krasner fellowship and the Paul D. Fleck
Fellowship. Her work has been featured on television programs throughout
America, Canada and Ireland. Kissik’s work is included in many private and
corporate collections as well as that of The Museum of Fine Art in Boston.