Artist: Andrea K.

Curatorial Statement

Andrea K.

My exhibition highlights the romanticization of the world around us, aiming for viewers to consider life's complexity through their own lens. I strive to portray the understanding that one can reconstruct everyday life's seemingly mundane existence as a beautiful experience, supported by a wide variety of colour and tonal variations in my works. I intend to positively impact viewers and encourage them to take advantage of all that life offers. Personal experiences and opinions can often distort others' views of the world. All my compositions are open to interpretation in whichever way the viewer deems appropriate. Although each piece relates to a common theme, the ultimate meaning is to provoke the beholder's imagination. The works vary in scale, colour, and medium to illustrate the diversity of expressiveness and artistry present in the outside world.

Vibrant pigments make up The Bigger Picture, inspired by J.M.W Turner, a Romantic painter. The ocean view is dramatized by the abundance of pigments, with a brilliant sunset casting shadows on the ocean to emphasize the minute details of life that one can overlook. This watercolour piece explores the content feeling one has while on vacation through combined glazing, coloured washes, and highlights. The next painting, The Escape, represents the impacts of anxiety. The juxtaposition between the bright colours of the abstract background and the grayscale tones of the women's face intensifies how one feels experiencing anxiety. Mental illnesses are challenging to depict and comprehend so I employed Abstract Expressionism to develop the theme of beauty often overlooked. In my photographic collage titled, A Fragmented Reality, I have arranged Convocation Hall in a discombobulated manner to express that life is what you make it to be.

I have exhibited my artwork based on embracing life's beauty by incorporating various elements from the outdoors. For instance, there are plenty of flowers in the first presented piece, The Escape, framing the woman's face and symbolizing her fragile mindset. Vegetation is then seen throughout The Bigger Picture, as the green pigments complement the seascape, adding a perspective of nature and connoting my envy of those traveling. In my photo joiner, A Fragmented Reality, the building is in Toronto, an urban area. Yet, the bright blue sky and trees of various colours show that even in an atmosphere of buildings and concrete, nature benefits society. To develop a relationship between the artwork and the viewer, I used negative and positive space, a wide range of colors, and various artistic techniques. Colour was employed to visually impact the viewer, using pigments that pop out and emphasize areas of interest such as flora.

Moreover, I aimed to achieve balance throughout my pieces to strengthen the viewer's multiple possible interpretations. This artwork arrangement supports the relationship and connection between them by containing nature and open air. The colours in my photo joiner of a building are toned down compared to my large-scale piece's pigments. The Bigger Picture combines an architectural structure with various colours and vegetation, similar to how trees and Convocation Hall are captured in A Fragmented Reality, and vivid colours and flowers in The Escape. From the work I have selected for the exhibition, I intend for my audience to connect to the outside world and welcome opportunities life throws at them with open arms. I want others to recognize that they can see the world through a lens of vibrant excitement, similar to the vivid colors I use in my works.

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