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Artist Exhibitions:
EDUCATION:
Foundation Studies:
Ontario College of Art &
Design
BFA (Painting):
University of Windsor
MFA (Painting):
York University
BED (Art Education):
University of Windsor
MED (Art Education):
University of Windsor
Post-Graduate Studies (Art
Ed.):
University of British Columbia
AWARDS:
2002 Senior Grant
Ontario Arts Council
2002 Exhibition Grant
Ontario Arts ...
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Artist Galleries:
Art Central, Main level
<107, 100 - 7th Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 0W4
T: 403.262.3356
E: info@axisart.ca
Rob Mabee: rob@axisart.ca ...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
W.K.P.Kennedy Gallery
Permanent Collection
York University
Rooney Architectural Design
Cutsey Business Systems
Ontario Realty Corporation
Government of Ontario
C. John D'Agostino &
Associates
City of North Bay
Venasse Construction Ltd.
Grant Thornton Consulting
Dr. K. O'Grady
J.S. Redpath Limited
Ontario Northland Commission
Madame Justice Lydia ...
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Jim Mroczkowski
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I enjoy the "aesthetics" of "accumulation" and the challenge of juxtaposing arbitrary, symbolic and meaningful image-making. I like stark austerity and extravagance to coexist within the same field to present a feeling of some grandeur.
Some say that my image development is aimless, tragicomic meandering...it often is...but that is a consequence of the battle that I have with the rectangle and the sustained struggle between form and content...never certain which will or should dominate, let alone survive...this results in frequent reworking of areas, piling-up indecisions, and leaving spaces of indeterminate residue.
The iconography in my work embodies life's polarities rather than its gradations, the yin and yang of our existence. I am intrigued by what is "real" and what is "deceptive", what is "manifest" and what is "concealed". It's the essence of riddle. Therefore, signs, symbols, and silhouettes are of great interest to me and are major elements and often serve, singularly or collectively, as the central focus of my work.
My most recent work has grown more open and airy. Nonetheless, I still have an appetite for space, a taste for detail and a tendency, generally, toward visual profusion. Now, my concern with color is for its static mass. My interest in line remains a devoted one, especially as random gestures which take the shape or form of dance.
The increased openness of my newer works remains diaristic in parts and these pieces are often tinged with compositional anxiety. I have maintained the use of some of my better established motifs and symbols to continue to express sociopolitical and spiritual concerns. Ornamentation and pattern play heavily in these newer works (2000 - 2002). These rhythmic configurations act as visual grounds of unified tonal conformity and repeated gesture. The interplay of seemingly unrelated and sometimes barely perceptible images still intrigues me. My intention behind these arrangements is to suggest multiple meanings associated with loss and regeneration. References to things quite ordinary and routine, the physical and the sub-conscious are reinforced for me in how I handle the paint. My engagement with the surface is an intimate one. On these surfaces, I allow imagery, language and medium to coexist and adhere.
My mixed media drawings exploit and employ non-conventional, as well as traditional approaches to drawing. I explore the limits and applications of various media in my mark-making and focus my attention on the role of conception in the production of the drawn image. It is from this premise that media, subject, and concept are partnered in the creative and inventive process of image making. This results in a synectic and analogical set of working strategies which guides my work and provides the linkages among the discoveries that I encounter along the way.
To me, "mixed media" does not necessarily limit itself to material investigation. It also permits me to function within the scope of investigating how various media connect ideas within the broader sense of linking art to life, art to matter, intellect, spirituality, social issues, and to the environment.
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