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Artist Exhibitions:
EXHIBITIONS:
PHOTOGRAPHY (*solo shows)
2008/2007/2006 Nuit Blanche,
Toronto - Beaver Hall Gallery
2005 *Burst
(alternative space)
wallflowers, Toronto
2005 Praxis Gallery, Toronto
- Contact Festival
2005 Beaver Hall Gallery,
Toronto
2001 *She Said Boom, Toronto
1998 Beaver Hall Gallery,
Toronto
1994 Artpourri, Toronto
1993 Symbiosis 2, The Great
Hall, Toronto
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Artist Statement for Barbara Greczny
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In high school I fell in love with the tranquility of the darkroom. I apprenticed with the late Tibor Horvath in classical portrait photography. My classical training has led me to photograph the nude, the adornment of the body through piercings, tatoos, henna and body paint. I took an information technology design course and discovered digi-cams, scans and photoshop’s potential. I went from the tactile, chemical based darkroom to the computer keyboard for image manipulation experimentation. My passion is being behind the camera whether it's capturing one still image or a series of them.
My influences are an eclectic group of portrait photographers including Diane Arbus, Edward Steichen and Joel Peter Witkin. Arbus with her freaks, Steichen with his classic beauty and Witkin with his twisted, manipulated bodies of the dead and the living. The Science fiction genre, as represented in popular culture, has been reflected in some my past work. My recent commission "wallflowers" allowed me the freedom to explore the urban walls of Toronto and beyond to find my voice. I gathered images of flowers and scrutinized the textures that are always present but never truly noticed. I took the raw in camera files, transfered them onto my desktop laboratory and began to work intuitively much like a painter and his brush. The natural beauty of the flowers found their way onto the decaying symbols of our urban environment without much effort. This project was free of restraints...I was able to create work that spoke to me.
EDUCATION:
2004 Toronto Business Development Centre, Certificate in Self-Employment Strategies
2001 Digital Media Studios, Certificate in Digital Web Design.
1997 Ontario College of Art and Design, AOCAD Integrated Media department.
1993 Information Technology Design Centre, Certificate in Prepress Production Applications
GRANTS/AWARDS:
Special Projects grant OAC, for the Bank of Symbiosis, 1997
Exhibition assistance OAC, for the Bank of Symbiosis, 1997
Project grant TAC, for the Bank of Symbiosis, 1997
William f. White film award, 1997
Ross Fletcher film/video scholarship, 1997
Special Projects grant OAC, for Symbiosis, The Clinic, 1995
EXHIBITIONS:
PHOTOGRAPHY
2005 Burst (alternative space), Toronto – wallflowers Solo Show.
2005 Praxis Gallery, Toronto - Contact Festival – Group Show.
2005 Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto – Group Show
2001 She Said Boom (store window), Toronto – Digital DNA Solo Show.
1998 Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto – Group Show.
1994 Artpourri, Toronto – Group show.
1993 Symbiosis 2, The Great Hall, Toronto – Site specific, Group Show.
1992 Symbiosis, Toronto – Site Specific, Group show.
INSTALLATION
2001 InterAccess, Toronto — “Year Zero One 5th Anniversary” — Flash animation
2001 The University of Western Ontario — Not with a Bang” McIntosh Gallery –
Vial Upon The Sun included in David Hoffos installation Catastrophe.
1997 The Bank of Symbiosis Toronto group show with the Symbiosis Artists Collective
You are being watched an interactive video installation with a security camera.
1997 OCAD Gallery - Antenna Video Collective - Territory, Multi-monitor
video installation
1995 Symbiosis 3, The Clinic - Site-specific group show Toronto, Body Inc. video with
photography exhibited.
SCREENINGS
2003 OHM festival — Vial Upon the Sun and Underground videos screened
1998 “SYNC II” — Ted’s Wrecking Yard, Toronto – Co—curator, Underground screened.
1998 Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto — “The Bank of Symbiosis” Catalogue launch and video
screening — Homefree and Vial Upon The Sun video’s screened.
1998 Cinemathèque, AGO —“The Independents,” Toronto— Vial Upon the Sun
1997 “Paradiso” The Kensington Market Lofts, Toronto — Vial Upon The Sun
1997 Cinecycle “Magnetic,” Toronto — Vial Upon the Sun
1997 “SYNC” Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto – “My Side,” 20min film/video.
1997 “Plunderpalooza ” Toronto, Lees Palace — “Specimen <3” and “Vial Upon the Sun”
1997 “The Bank of Symbiosis” Toronto — Group show with the Symbiosis Artists Collective
“Homefree” 40min. documentary video exhibited.
1994 Music Gallery — “Oddeeo Sounds,” “Specimen <3” 3min. video screened
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