Members update: Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska

Latest and well-known earlier works by Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska are at the Tokarska Gallery until 28 September 2013 (Thursday – Saturday, 12 - 7pm).

"In her works, Nadiya sees London as a expressive essence that takes on different dimensions and identities, delivered through a subtle balance of intensity, vibrancy and dynamics of the images.

More than often this vision of city expression as a being encompasses structures, humans, vehicles and other creations that collectively make an uncensored depiction of daily life in the city. Capturing energy of this collective formation serves as a great source of challenge and fascination for the Artist."

The Big Draw at Tokarska Gallery

Open Call:  Artists specialising in drawing are invited to take part in the annual Big Draw Campaign and submit their entries to the open call

Selected works will form a group show and displayed at Tokarska Gallery from 3 – 19 October 2013

To Apply:  please download and complete the application form http://tokarskagallery.co.uk/bigdraw
 
Price: £10 per application, with a maximum three images of different works to be submitted per application. Please note that the maximum size for the works submitted for this call is A1 size.
  
Closing Day for Applications: 1 September 2013

Prior to the Big Draw exhibition, the latest and well-known earlier works by Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska will be on show at the Gallery from 12 – 28 September 2013. In her works, Nadiya sees London as a expressive essence that takes on different dimensions and identities, delivered through a subtle balance of intensity, vibrancy and dynamics of the images.

Bestow - the 2012 E17 Art Trail

c4m member Rev. Steven Saxby has once again organised an amazing line-up of artworks for the E17 Art Trail at St Barnabas and St Saviours, both in Walthamstow. Click here for information about the 16 different displays/events at St Barnabas and here for the 7 displays/events at St Saviours.

Another c4m member Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska is contributing two displays at the Tokarska Gallery. Click here for details. Nadiya's own cityscapes of Finsbury Circus are currently on display at the gallery until 25th August - don't miss the opportunity to see these works!

When deciding the theme for this year’s E17 Art Trail the organisers knew they had to find an expression to reflect the generosity of all who make this such a rich festival programme. Bestow giftwraps the invitation of almost 3000 practising artists and creative contributors, an invitation to enjoy the vision, to relish the gifts and to consider the ideas of our creative community. Doors are open to you revealing new compositions in artists workspaces and homes. Poets, playwrights, musicians, and comics will captivate you with stories old and new. You will encounter art that is joyous, challenging, confrontational, delightful, humourous, distinguished, ambitious and enterprising. Enjoy your visit, and treasure the memories. The E17 Art Trail 2012 will open on Saturday 1st September with a launch event.

Launch of the Tokarska Gallery

Jonathan Evens and Henry Shelton attended the launch of the Tokarska Gallery tonight. The gallery is a vibrant, independent contemporary art space which is a quality addition to the E17 art map. The gallery will provide a platform for innovative British and international practice in traditional and new media.


The gallery has launched with Lost & Found: an exhibition of cityscapes exploring existential and psychological states in painting between abstraction and representation. This show presents works by Ukrainian-born artist and gallery founder Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska, including her most recent paintings, depicting London’s metropolitan architecture as a starting point. She combines realist painting techniques (use of perspective, micro-detail and layered glazes) with a partial breakdown of the visual field that is both perceptual and metaphoric. Informed by Gerhard Richter’s “out of focus” blur and other disruptive devices, Pavliv-Tokarska’s painterly surfaces are fragmented in order to represent subjective positions from the meditative to the lucid dream.

“Through my work I try to communicate the idea of vulnerability, the fragility of human existence”, says Pavliv-Tokarska, a graduate of Middlesex University’s Fine Art programme. This philosophical attitude is nuanced by the artist’s active interest in quantum physics and neurology, particularly in terms of the physiology of emotions and the concept of a “collective consciousness.” Her works therefore deal with notions of connectivity, as well as reworking modernist painting’s early 20th-century concern with the “dissolving atom” in light of contemporary scientific developments.

According to James Little, managing director of the Screen Talent Agency, Shoreditch, “The London paintings… convey an unusual perspective and mood. Though obviously concerned with the works of man – architecture, buses, telephone kiosks and so on - actual people are only depicted as fleeting shadows,
if at all. They’re Hopper-like in some ways, though more abstract.”

The gallery launch featured a special preview of Lost & Found, accompanied by a live performance from Rome Pays Off, a North London band formed by members of the ambient instrumental group Rothko. The gallery is open to the public 31st March – 28th May, Thurs – Sat, 12 – 7pm or by appointment. Address 163 Forest Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 6HE. Nearest tube Blackhorse Road (Victoria line).