A young artist from Wingham is getting her first solo exhibition in the Bainton Gallery in Blyth.
Beginning Friday, the Blyth Festival Art Gallery will be featuring over 50 paintings by Michelle Zarytshansky. She says the title of the show is "Perfect Imperfection."
"My artwork focuses on the themes of place, time, contradiction and contrasting elements. The paintings represent a foreign, unknown reality and display an interchangeable essence of buoyancy and gravity. I am intrigued with the concept of creating paintings that are entirely contradictory; everything from painting style, textures, form, palette, directional flows and titles," she says. "The strict palette of black and white allows for those features to be the main focus, rather than colour being the first impression."
Raised in Wingham, she currently lives in Kitchener where she has completed her degree at the University of Waterloo in Honours Fine Arts - Studio Practice.
Michelle was the recipient of the University of Waterloo's Fine Arts Excellence Award in 2015.
Michelle Zarytshansky’s paintings will be on display in the Bainton Gallery of the Blyth Memorial Hall from June 30 to July 31.
The gallery is located next to the Blyth Festival box office and is open during box office hours.
Michelle Zarytshansky at the Blyth Gallery in 2016. (photo submitted)
