Elena Roginsky

I am using different media for my artwork - oil on canvas, watercolour, pastel and original print. During recent five years I mostly painting. Currently my favorite theme is cityscapes. I life-paint them on the streets of downtown Toronto and sometimes complete work in my studio. Hunting for an object in city jungle is an exciting and fascinating process for me. The goal is to get feeling of resonance with the environment, with the pulse of the city. I can’t and don’t want to work with photographs. I have to be inside. I have to see how rapidly everything in the city (people, cars, clouds and light) moves, changes, disappears. I reflect this quickness in my works by sketchy appearance, incompleteness of my canvases.
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Elena Roginsky captures a moment in time through a process of observation and introspection. Her works are emotional and painterly, and rooted in the historical tradition of painting. They are created on location as has been done throughout the history of painting.
Roginsky loads blank canvases and paints into her van and goes for a drive. When she feels inspired, she pulls over at the side of the road, places a blank canvas on the steering w...

MA in visual arts.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
06/2019 The Peach Gallery, "Urban Moments"
11/2018 Hittite Gallery, “New Paintings”
11/2016 Hittite Gallery, “Oil Paintings”
05/2015 Hittite Gallery, “Cityscapes”
05/2013 Praxis Gallery, “New Paintings”
02/2012 Praxis Gallery, “Recent Works”
11/2011 Gallery on the Bay, “Interiors”
05/2010 Gallery on the Bay, “Paintings and Prints by Elena Roginsky”
04-05/2009 Inverlynn Art, “Weekdays”
02/2009 Gilmoure Gallery, “Outside”
04-05/2008 Inverlynn Art, “New Works by Elena Roginsky”
04-05/2006 Inverlynn Art, “Ten Years in Canada”..
11/2004 Inverlynn Art, “New Works”.
3/2004 Gilmoure Gallery, “Recent Prints”.
8-9/2003 Latcham Gallery, “From the Shadows”.
4/2002 Inverlynn Art, “At the speed of 60 minutes per hour”.
3-4/2000 Open Studio member’s gallery, “Against the hour hand”.
1/1999 Zoe’s Bakery Café, “Approaching”.
9/1998 ACE Bakery. “A la recherche du temps perdu”.
4/1996 Jerusalem Theater Exhibition Hall.
5/1992...