St Z

My work in recent years has been exploring the possibilities when different mediums coexist, integrate and thrive. I have developed and versed the methods and techniques called "Paralleled Process” that include a three-stage process of “Two surfaces - Selections – Merge”. First, the base layer on the canvas and the ink patterns on rice paper are prepared, in an impulsive and gestural manner. Then part of the ink painting is selected, torn and shaped into the canvas. The inked collage elements fuse, flow and blend with the acrylic paint surroundings, they are often significant elements as the starting or focal points of a composition. Since Gesture Expressionism plays an important role in the practice, the manipulation and control of "incidental beauty" is essential in the process. The weight of brushstrokes, the movement of lines and shapes, the intensity of textures and colours, all these elements cannot be repeated technically, and they are unique from one painting to another. However, this method can be and has been used and developed to create the coherent vocabularies for my work.
My inspirations mainly draw from experience and observation of colour, form, sound, light, atmosphere and events in nature and surroundings. The ins...

ST. Z has B.A degree in Stage Design and the Diploma of the Environmental Design, Ontario College of Art and Design (current OCADU).

-Spring Group Exhibition, Juried, Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2019
-Show Booth, Queen West Art Crawl (Fair), Juried, Toronto, Canada. 2017
Solo Exhibition, Skylight Gallery, Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada, 2016
- Group Show, Project Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2014
- Show Booth, Cabbage Town Art and Craft Fair, Juried, Toronto, Canada, 2013
- Paintings from a Private Collection - Gallery Ritthaler, Hamburg, Germany, 2012
- Show Booth, Queen West Art Crawl (Fair), Juried, Toronto, Canada. 2011
-Group Show, Markham, Canada, 2007 and 2006
-Group Show, Distillery District Art Fair, Toronto, Canada, 2004
-Group Show, Markham, Canada, 2003 and 2002
-Group Show, Adenauer-Foundation, Schwerinsches Palace, Berlin, Germany, Curated by Werner Melletin Gallery, 1997
- Group Show, Euro-Academy, Cologne, Germany. Curated by Werner Melletin Gallery, 1995
- Gallery Artist, Group Shows, Observatoire Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 1993 and 1992
- Gallery Artist, Group Shows, Kyser-Goldenberg Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 1992, 1991 and 1990
- Solo Exhibition, Bancroft Public Art Gallery, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. 1990