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| PAINTINGS and SCULPTURES 2003-2005 THEMES - GALLERIES click on the images to see all the works from each gallery |
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| f a c e s 89 paintings |
b u i l d 44 paintings |
l a n d 25 paintings |
s t i l l s 22 paintings |
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| a b o u t ( from critiques, writings and press releases )
(faces)'These portraits show in-between states of consciousness...thoughts and emotions are only present in traces. Rather than character or likeness, they convey mood and poise. These faces signify different things to different people...like a mirror, they reflect the viewer's own psychology.' When viewing a retrospect or series of Maya Kulenovics’s work, it is not uncommon to be struck by the impact of the pieces as canvases, and the force of the pieces as a collective. Overarching themes that deal with war, waste, consumption, and their consequences are imminent; her pieces speak to us about tension and resistance. Wars are not only fought on the battlefield but exist all around us, in the most mundane of situations. What Kulenovic does is take the everyday actions that we have accepted as mundane, and exposes the conflict that resides within. Kulenovic’s paintings tell stories, and direct the viewers’ gaze to the micro level of their individual subjects, while simultaneously reaching beyond the individual and expressing the macro state of a society in which these individual experiences have occurred. The subjects, along with the artifacts to which they are juxtaposed, rest in secluded spaces of neutral backgrounds; the cohesion of the piece comes from the written text, that being the name of the piece'. MORE FROM THIS WRITING (ENGLISH AND FRENCH)
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short biography (exhibitions) Maya Kulenovic is a Canadian painter, living in Toronto. She was born in 1975 in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia (present Bosnia and Herzegovina). Maya Kulenovic has exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions and over fourty group shows Canada wide, in the US, The Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Japan, South Korea and Turkey. Her paintings can be seen in numerous collections around the world. She studied art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, England (MFA, 1998), Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto (AOCAD Honours, 1997) and Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul (1995). She is also an alumna of London Goodenough College in London, England (1997/98). Maya Kulenovic taught undergraduate courses in drawing, painting and art history (1999-2002), which she left to focus on her studio work. Maya Kulenovic est une peintre canadienne demeurant à Elle a étudiée au Chelsea College of Art and Design à Londres, Angleterre (MFA, 1998), Ontario College of Art and Design à Toronto (AOCAD avec distinction, 1997) et au Mimar Sinan University en Istanbul (1995). Elle est aussi une boursière du London Goodenough College à Londres, Angleterre (1997/98). Maya Kulenovic a enseigné des cours de dessin, de peinture et d’historie de l’art (1999-2002) au niveau de la maîtrise mais elle a laisé l’enseignement pour se concentrer sur sa pratique artistique. |
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