Robert Dmytruk

My creative practice thrives on layering color, irregular shapes, and patterns, utilizing negative space and three-dimensional techniques. By disrupting boundaries and shifting perspectives, I draw the viewer into immersive works on various surfaces.
I see my work as contemporary, expressive, and energetic. Escaping the constraints of traditional canvas and brush, I build multilayered pieces with unique forms. Color, pattern, and shape become a motivating force, creating a wholeness where foreground, middle ground, and background merge on a three-dimensional plane.
Living in a world of information overflow and virtual reality, my work seeks to provide a different way of seeing. It's a balance to the "schizophrenia of Western civilization," the constant pandemonium that weighs us down. As Joan Jonas said, "The concept of abstraction does not fit my thinking...because I do not deduce things from what I can see." My work is about experiencing, not just observing.

Bachelor of Education, secondary art. University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada. 1980.

Selected Gallery Exhibitions. Solo and two person shows
2024 Inherent Boundlessness, Headbones Gallery, Vernon BC. Two Person Exhibit
2023 Enigma: Abstracted Prologue, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton BC. Sept 22-Nov 4
2023 Enigma: Ukraine, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton BC, Canada. Sept 22-Nov 4
2019 COLOR+, Headbones Gallery, Vernon BC. Two person Exhibition with David Cantine

2019 Animated Colour – Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2019 Cantine/Dmytruk Two Painters, Headbones Gallery, Vernon BC, Canada
2018 Harmonious Ambiguities, Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2017 Ambiguities of a Spatial Order,Edge Gallery, Calgary AB, Canada
2016 Working Space, Edge Gallery, Calgary AB, Canada
2014 Charting the Journey, Front Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2013 Landmarks on the Studio Wall, Gallery 501, Strathcona County Alberta (3 person show)
2013 Urban Mapping, Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer AB, Canada
2013 Transmissions, Headbones Gallery, Vernon BC, Canada
2010 Imagemaker, Art Gallery of St Albert, St. Albert AB, Canada
2006 Land Visions, Kensington Art Gallery, Calgary A, CanadaB
2004 Interrupted Landmarks, Front Gallery, Edmonton AB, Canada
2003 -Places and Perceptions, Front Gall...