Nicole Katsuras: Painter's Paradise - South Granville Gallery Hop

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Nicole Katsuras, "Gemstone Book," 2019

oil on canvas, 72" x 48"

Bau-Xi Gallery is pleased to host Toronto-based artist Nicole Katsuras on Sat Oct 19, 2019  2-4 PM during the South Granville Gallery Hop. Visitors are invited to a special preview of her upcoming solo exhibition Painter's Paradise opening Nov 16th, select new paintings will be unveiled in the upper gallery for this one day event.

An interest in aesthetic semantics and systems of meaning informs Katsuras' material experimentation with mark-making to create an expanding visual language of extrusions, brushstrokes and other varied applications of the oil medium.

With her use of high impasto, jewel-like palettes and organic forms, the artist's approach to her paintings speaks to a persistent underpinning force, one which expands through her textured surfaces and exuberant gestures outward from the two-dimensional space of her canvasses.

At once abstract interpretations of and observational remarks on the processes of compression, expansion and drift, Katsuras' compositions are rendered with dynamic, sweeping movements, loose, voluptuous lines and frenetic streaks of colour which layer to build palpitating spatial tensions toward a sublime release.

NICOLE KATSURAS studied at the University of Toronto and received her Honours Bachelor of Arts.  Nicole continued her studies abroad and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of London, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in the United Kingdom.  After completing her Masters in the UK, Nicole has returned to Toronto to work as a full-time painter.  She has exhibited in Toronto, London, Seoul, and Paris.  Her work is part of both private and public collections across North America and in Europe.