About Me
i'm a third year painting student at emily carr university of art and design. i took two years of visual arts at the university of victoria between 2006 and 2008.
i'm available for comission work. drop me a line.
i dont like:
olives
peppers
cilantro
that condescending look on your face
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Contact
etoohey-wiese@eciad.ca
liz_2emeadow@hotmail.com
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Artists Statement
By Liz Toohey-Wiese
"Or maybe memories are like karaoke- where you realise on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realise that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think its best not to know the lyrics to your life."
-Douglas Coupland
The flaws of the seemingly infallible human memory is a topic I explore through my artwork. Sometimes I create artwork in order to preserve the memory of places and people I meet, and other times I create artwork in order to create a reality that is reflective of a world that never existed.
The influence of photography on my paintings affects many aspects of my work. The importance of experimentation with colour has only grown as I have developed as an artist over the years. I focus on colour and how it can either reflect or distort reality. I often brighten colours, shift saturation, and add colour that wasn't there before to affect the meaning of a piece. My colours often mimic the photographic technique of cross-processing, in which slide film is developed in negative film chemicals, distorting the colour reality of a medium which is often seen to be invariably tethered to the everyday world.
Many of my paintings use points of view reflecting the spontaneity of a snapshot taken from an odd angle, honoring the impulsive tendencies of photography. I also employ drips and pours, translucent layers and visible brushstrokes to create movement in a expectedly static medium. These details also leave the paintings looking raw and unfinished; the same way I view my own memories as a series of incomplete facts and malleable perceptions.
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Artists Resume
education:
2008-present:
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Vancouver, B.C.
Visual Arts Department
February 2010-June 2010
École Nationale des Beaux-Arts Lyon
Lyon, France
4eme année, Option Art
2006-2008:
University of Victoria
Victoria, B.C.
Visual Arts Department
exhibitions:
2009:
"Portraits"
Juried Group Exhibition
The Brow Gallery
Vancouver, B.C.
"CARDED!"
Juried Group Exhibition
Little Mountain Studios
Vancouver, B.C.
2008:
Emily Carr Student Art Sale
Juried Group Exhibition
Vancouver, B.C.
August Art Sale
Group Exhibition
Langley, B.C.
2007:
August Art Sale
Group Exhibition
Langley, B.C.
2006:
August Art Sale
Group Exhibition
Langley, B.C.
2005:
August Art Sale
Group Exhibition
Langley, B.C.
Girlspoken Exhibition
Juried Group Exhibition
Art Gallery of Sudbury
Sudbury, O.N.
2004:
Art in the Garden
Group Exhibition
Langley, B.C.
publications:
Girlspoken
Published by Second Story Press, 2008
Included "The best place to find a helping hand..." self-portrait