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Artist Exhibitions:
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Presernov vecer
739 Browns Line
Feb. 6, 2009
Hugh's Room
2261 Dundas St. W.
May/June, 2008
www.hughsroom.com
Junction Art Festival
Agora Cafe
3015 Dundas St. W.
Sept. 6-9,2007
Gallery OneZedTwo
2975 Dundas St. W.
Feb., 2007
www.galleryOneZedTwo.com
RBC Jubilee
Roy ...
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Artist Galleries:
GALLERY113
113 Jefferson Avenue
Toronto, ON
www.gallery113.ca
Gallery OneZedTwo
2975 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, ON
www.galleryOneZedTwo.com
Auto-Grotto
edaas gallery,
Latitude 44, Toronto,
The Eclectic Gallery, Toronto,
George's Trains, Toronto,...
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Artist Reviews:
* ALL ABOARD THE JUNCTIONS
ARTS FESTIVAL; Local artist
showcases railway-inspired
works (excerpts from).
By: Kaleb Brown, contributing
writer for the Village Gleaner
a community newspaper for
Toronto's west end. September
2004.
It seems only appropriate that
an arts festival in a
neighbourhood named for the
convergence of railway...
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Collections:
"The Contra Guys", Investment
Columnists, Toronto, Canada
http://www.contratheheard.com..
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Leo Bolta
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Leo, is a Toronto born painter who is active in oils, as well as oil pastels. Most of his works have been brought about on location (plein air) or occasionally executed in the studio, based on site sketches. He is an active cyclist and often endeavors by these means to explore and unearth hidden gems of subject matter within the cities core, while on his painting excursions. Bicycling to him, provides a raw exposure to the elements, both on route and on site, which further provides the close at hand intimacy of the environment, which is so desired to paint the feeling of what is there as he sees it.
He is often motivated to venture into undertaking a variety of subject matter, as the topics happen to move him. He considers that artistic license includes an expression of heart felt stimulation of the artist, no matter the diversity of the subject matter. Like most individuals, many different themes and events happen to capture his interest. That said, he admits that he is particularly drawn to depicting many of the cities older utilitarian design industrial buildings or everyday scenes of a more gritty nature, which are often in a state of semi decay. Interestingly, many of his works depict the familiar automobile; either on route, parked lawfully or unlawfully or any place they can squeeze-in for that matter. Who after all, can deny the reality of their presence and hence, their worthiness as subject matter for a painter who desires to express the authenticity of our urban existence?
Few of the scenes in his paintings represent architectural or design gems but their often bleak features seem to still have an attraction, if only because they often seem to project a strong raw statement. Whatever the subject matter, Leo hopes that sensitivity he feels toward the subject is projected honestly and he hopes that the viewer experiences that same mood, if only for the fleeing moment that they happen to be engaged in it’s portrayal.
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