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Grainy Days
Nick Stolarz
April 5th-May 5th, 2024
Film photography has been a growing passion of mine over the past few years.
I previously had an affinity for shooting with digital cameras, although I quickly fell more in love with the entire experience that film has to offer.
The grain, the tones, the shadows and the entire process of capturing the shot and scanning the film negatives - I love it all.
Originally from the Toronto area, I moved out here to Vancouver at the beginning of 2021.
I immediately found the desire to immerse myself in the vast and beautiful nature that this part of the country has to offer.
A short time after moving here, I purchased an adventure motorcycle which has served as an important vessel for my photography.
With it, I’m able to get to places I wouldn’t normally attempt to get to otherwise.
My camera has become an essential travel companion when I set off for hikes, lake days and road trips.
While I also enjoy street photography, this gallery you see here today is mainly showcasing my landscape photography.
My intention is to showcase bright and colorful landscape settings that give off a dreamy aesthetic.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to read this and I hope you enjoy my work.
Much love,
Nick Stolarz
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LAST MONTHS ARTIST
Concepts of Colour, an Expletive by @james.welk in the Charles Clark Art Gallery, March 5th - April 3rd.
Join us for the artist reception: on Thursday, March 7th, from 6-9 pm all are welcome!
Artist Statement:
Through my work I seek to mimic abstraction and figuration through a system of dense compositions of shape and marbled colour. I work to develop this through the use of abstracted or analogous forms that relate to content which is not directly explicative but a pretence of reality. Through the push and pull of paint, canvas and fabric, I believe the viewer should work to find image or visual for themselves, no clobbering over the head with a simple clarity. I know the explicit visuals I develop in my work, however, I want you as the viewer to seek and find my narrative. I ask that the viewer come to terms with elusive hints of reality, clarity, memory; I want you to view and relate that to an ephemeral moment, offering up something that is an essence of, subject of, or key to the moment or time that is the ‘character’ of that which I paint. Do you ever stare at the ceiling spackle as day breaks and see images meandering above your head? Like this, I want you to find what I see.
James Welk attended Emily Carr’s Fine arts program, and is Graduate of Langara’s Fine Arts Program. James works out of The Phoenix Gallery Collective in Gastown in Vancouver; an organization which he also assists and manages with local artist, Jolene Simpson.
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