- Venue
- Tokarska Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, March 25, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, May 28, 2011
- Address
- 163 Forest Rd. Walthamstow E17 6HE
- Location
- London
Tokarska Gallery is a vibrant, independent contemporary art space opening thisspring. A quality addition to the E17 art map, the gallery provides a platform forinnovative British and international practice in traditional and new media.The inaugural show, Lost & Found, 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 combinesrealist painting techniques (use of perspective, micro-detail and layered glazes)with a partial breakdown of the visual field that is both perceptual andmetaphoric. Informed by Gerhard Richter’s “out of focus” blur and otherdisruptive devices, Pavliv-Tokarska’s painterly surfaces are fragmented in orderto represent subjective positions from the meditative to the lucid dream.“Through my work I try to communicate the idea of vulnerability, the fragility ofhuman existence”, says Pavliv-Tokarska, a graduate of Middlesex University’s Fine Art programme. This philosophical attitude is nuanced by the artist’s activeinterest in quantum physics and neurology, particularly in terms of thephysiology of emotions and the concept of a “collective consciousness.”
