Amy-Claire Huestis and Elzbieta
Krawecka
May 3 - June 2, 2007
Opening reception Thursday May 3, 6-8 pm
Elzbieta Krawecka, Audacious Newcomer
The Diane Farris Gallery is very pleased to announce an exhibition
of work by Amy-Claire Huestis and Elzbieta Krawecka. Huestis
captures the human spirit through gestural figure studies
while Krawecka paints dramatic, sweeping landscapes and cloud
formations. Both artists live and work in eastern Canada.
Their styles and techniques are influenced by European traditions
in painting and drawing. Huestis’ fanciful images have
a gentle, antique sensibility with their subdued colours and
nostalgic themes. She expresses her love of the pastoral through
loosely-sketched figures, small animals and birds. Krawecka
takes a more literal approach to landscape painting with dramatic
cloudscapes and hints of life on the earth below: a distant
group of buildings, a grove of trees, a roadway or a small
figure on a bicycle. The simplicity and delicacy of images
by both artists is refreshing.
Huestis was born in Moscow, Idaho. She completed a two-year
fine arts program at Langara College, Vancouver, and later
moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University where she
completed her Fine Arts degree with honours. In 1999, Huestis
assisted Quebec sculptor Morton Rosengarten with his bronze
casting in Montreal. Currently, Huestis paints, draws and
does printmaking at her studio in St-Henri, Quebec. The Diane
Farris Gallery has represented her since 2006.
Elzbieta Krawecka is a Polish-born artist who received her
formal art training at the Ontario College of Art and Design
(OCAD) between 1989-1994. She participated in OCAD’s
Off-Campus Program in Florence, Italy between 1992-1993. Krawecka
has been exhibiting her work throughout Ontario since 1997.
Her distinctions include an artist residency at the Pouch
Cove Foundation in April 2004 and first prize at the Ontario
Society for Artists Juried Show in Toronto in 2003.
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Amy
Claire Huestis, Young Man Climbing a Hill |
