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Artist Statement:
Cyanotype has been my creative
destination for some time, and
now I have arrived. My latest
work has departed wholly from
the confines of film and
camera, and paints a broader,
luxurious image in cyan blue
and warm hues of archival
white.
I have carefully cultivated a
unique niche in the rarefied
Cyanotype medium, a
mid-19th-century photographic
discipline originally used for
practical purposes such as
proofing and blueprinting, but
revisited periodically by
photographic artists seeking
an alternative to modern
media.
My new approach to the old
process is original and
innovative due to the
unexpected reversed ‘positive’
tonality of the prints and
their virtually limitless
size.
I wanted my cyanotype prints
-detailed, delicate, and
highly individual - to suffuse
a sense of antiquity with a
fresh, contemporary edge that
is powerful and subtle.
My work is decidedly feminine,
yet forceful and unyielding as
I explore the full bloom and
withering of the natural
cycles of life. I mix floral
arrangements with other,
coarser and more provocative
elements such as snakeskin and
fauna to compose symbolic and
engaging oeuvres.
Although the symbolism and
content of my work expands
well beyond localized
representation, the unusual
clarity of each highly
detailed print ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO SHOWS
2008 Intofocus Photography
Center, Montreal
2006 Old Brewery Mission
Gallery, Montreal
2005 Art Gallery of Eleanor
London Public Library,
Montreal
2003 Espace Trois, Saidye
Bronfman Centre for the Arts,
Montreal
2001 Dawson Institute of
Commercial Photography,
Montreal
DUO SHOWS
2007 Trumpet Impressions
Intofocus Photography Center
Gallery, Montreal,Canada
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Dawson College, Montreal,
Canada
City of Montreal, Canada
Various private collections,
Russia, Canada, USA...
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Commissions:
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
International Airport,
Montreal,Canada
Reporters Communication for
Montreal World Book Capital,
Montreal, Canada
Old Brewery Mission, Montreal,
Canada
AMD Auto, Montreal, Canada
K10 Studio, Montreal, Canada
Kalinka Kennel Int,
Russia/Canada
Grey Hound Rescue of Quebec,
Canada
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Tatiana Parniakova Biography:
| Biographical information for Tatiana Parniakova can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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46
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Olympic Weightlifting |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Color
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Contemporary Art - (Now)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Too many to list
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Too many to list
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Life itself |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I was born an artist, but it took some years to realize and some decades to prove. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Tatiana Parnaikova's skills as an artist straddle two distinct disciplines. She is a master of traditional photography, completely comfortable with both its modern practices and those of its past, and a contemporary artist who views historical methodologies as tools to express modern sensibilities.
Born and raised in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tatiana's earliest art-educational experiences were shaped by perhaps the richest and most intact art-historical environment in the western world, but also by the profoundly repressive pre-perestroika Soviet society, balanced precariously between the love of its art and the forcible silencing or controlling of its artistic voices. Her nascent experiencesin the arts coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Equipped with a BFA in Restoration from the Muchin School of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, Tatiana found herself in close contact with some of the most revered architectural landmarks and alfresco paintings in the Soviet Union. Working as a restorer, she came to know by feel, touch, smell and peeling archeological layer Peter and Paul's Fortress, Narva's Gates, the Ksehinsky mansion, and many other historical St. Petersburg buildings and their treasures.
This intimate contact with the past served as the perfect formative influence for Tatiana as she absorbed the essence of master painters and architects and synthesized her own ideas and direction as an artist. Despite, or perhaps because of, her relative maturity, Tatiana's foray into the arts has been spring-loaded, driven by an uncommonly clear passion and focus. Maturity has left a wonderful accent on her visual language, a language tinged by the colors of pure commitment, the liberty of released thought, and inspired direction.
Text By Randy Cole, Intofoc.us Montreal |
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