artist lecture: anda kubis

Art and Art History Presents

Anda Kubis

Thursday 29 October 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan B124

The urban experience is highly visual, complex and competitive. Attentive viewing and prolonged focus is often impossible. To navigate we must continually filter and sort. I wish to mimic the perceptual negotiation that must take place when we constantly shift from the virtual to the natural and back again. Rising from questions posed in Modernist abstract painting, such as presence, consciousness and the desire for transcendence, my work explores the subjective quality of conscious experience. I create floating screens and flickers of luminously synthetic colour using traditional oil paint. My challenge is to seek a resolution between painting’s historic context and its relevance today – as a means of “explaining” the dominant drivers in my visual landscape: architecture, design, media and consumer culture.

Biography

Anda Kubis was born in Toronto during a hopeful era. A faith in possibility pervades her work. Kubis studied at OCA for a short while and then moved on to complete a BFA at NSCAD and an MFA at York University in 1992. She is currently Chair of Drawing and Painting at OCAD. Before teaching at OCAD Anda taught at the University of Lethbridge and at York University.
Kubis has curated many exhibitions and run experimental art galleries: Superplastic for Drabinsky Gallery, Self Help at Mercer Union and Alias, Alibi for Free Parking Gallery.
Kubis is represented by Drabinsky Gallery in Toronto, Newzones in Calgary, Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver and Tapper-Popermajer Art Gallery in Sweden. In 2008 Kubis’ work appeared in Carte Blanche, Vol. 2: Painting – a compendium of Canadian painters, published by the Magenta Foundation.


Image: Cluster, Red (2008), 6 x 5 feet, oil on canvas