Sophie Polanski

Everyone can press the camera's shutter button and take a picture, but does that mean that now we are able to better express our view on the world?

Although it is assumed that the photo can correctly display three-dimensional world, it can not, and every photographer knows that the point of shooting, along with lighting, determines how the photo will look. Simple changing of focus' depth changes perception. The point of view travelling in three dimensions gives a lot of possibilities from which some one only realizes in a photograph.

Throughout its history, painting has developed a lot of two-dimensional illusion of three-dimensionality, but none of them is not final. You can always go beyond what was suggested yesterday. Plane has its own graphic will and its demands to the painting.

We are moving from photography to painting, developing new parallel ways of understanding the three-dimensional world in applying it onto a two-dimensional surface. Artistic field that we study is how to conclude a photographic image within the two-dimensional pictorial object. We consider photography as a starting point and premise work to change perceptions.
Photography is only a starting point for changing the spatial structures which br...

2014

Lucida Camera Obscura (solo). Black and white photos of historical sites of Saint John, NB. 12 photos.
June 6 — July 26, 2014. Millenium Artplace, Public Library, 1 Market Square, Saint John, NB


My Time Machine (solo). Photo portraits in old painting styles. 32 portraits.
May 9 — July 4, 2014. City of Saint John Gallery, Saint John Art Center, 20 Peel Plaza, Saint John, NB

2013

Poe-Pourri (participated). Presented 3 artworks.
October 10, 2013 — November 8, 2013. La galerie d’art le Repaire des 100 talents, 5867 St-Hubert, Montreal, QC


Dissolved Time (solo). Presented 16 artwork including the series:

Dissolved Time (5 pieces)
My Lovely Spy (3 pieces)
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (3 pieces)
Loyalists (3 pieces)

January 6 — February 22, 2013. Millenium Art Place, Public Library, 1 Market Square, Saint John, NB.