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EXPERIENCE SAM KASIRER FINE ARTS

Welcome to Sam Kasirer fine arts.
With a unique artistic voice and a playful and playful exploration of rich oil colours, I strive to inspire humankind through inventive and experimental work. Explore my pieces below.

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MY STORY

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I never learned to crawl as a child but, at some point, just stood up and walked. This is not to boast, for the developmental skip resulted in a significant left-brain/right-brain disjuncture. It is a gap I now bridge through painting. 

    With or without this dysfunction, I might have become a painter anyway. But of one thing I’m certain: my “dis/ability” has had a pronounced influence on how I engage with the world through art.  To meet my experience of dislocation, I’ve felt compelled to throw my whole body into the act of painting. I’ve learned to paint, for example, with both hands; but this not about action painting or Rorschach symmetry. 

    These paintings map the trajectories of energy and communication involved in both a medical condition and my responses to it. My approach is raw and intuitive—and painterly in the sense that I am able to let paint be paint. It can drip and flow and catch the eye, for it has own pathways, too. Bright drips spanning dark, cavernous hollows are just that; but they also form a map, or index, of the play of neurons in the cerebellum of a differently-abled person.  

    My work addresses issues of discomfort, fragmenting visual space in ways that reflect my perception of reality and communicate my private experience. For me, every approach to the canvas is an effort to place my vision of the world before the eyes of an able-bodied spectator. 

    I will sometimes employ, for example, bright colours and a light glaze to generate a vibratory effect or visual disturbance that enables viewers to experience, firsthand, my own sense of dislocation and confusion. Colour is also used in ways that draw some spaces forward and push others back. The surface, I then notice, seems to be breathing slowly, as if in counterpoint to the effort and strain I am feeling—arms outstretched—in my attempt to map the surface with my body.     

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MY CV

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021    AtroVersiamo II, Galerie/Espace Jerome B, Montreal, Quebec

2019 Corps Lumineux, Galerie/Espace Jerome B, Montreal, Quebec

2018  The Fellsite, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario

2018 Sights & Sounds: Solo exhibition, Resonance Cafe, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2017 Internal Spelunking: Solo Exhibition Presented at the Jacuzzi  Club, Montreal, Quebec

2015 Atro Versiamo: Solo exhibition Galerie du Victoria Hall, Montreal, Quebec, (curator Victoria LeBlanc)



GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SUMMARY)

2019 Ornement Group exhibition, Gallery Usine 106u, Montreal, Quebec
2019 CREATIVE REACTIONS, Montreal, Quebec
2018 In Bloom: KALYX Collective, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2018 All Art+: The Orchard, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2018 T6 exhibition and Journal Launch, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2018 All Art+: A New Beginning, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2017 Art Truck:OUMF, La Recreation,Montreal,Quebc
2017 First Impressions, VAV Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
2017 Troop 110 and the Inexplicable Abstraction, Jacuzzi Club, Montreal, Quebec
2016 Shaar Hashamayim Art Exhibition, Montreal, Quebec
2016 Journées de la culture, Arts Westmount, Montreal, Quebec
2016 Mash Up Club (MUC) in association with Mural Festival, Montreal, Quebec
2015 Square Affair, Mclure Gallery Montreal, Quebec
2014 Victoria Hall Group Show, Montreal, Quebec
2012 Journées de la culture, Arts Westmount, Montreal, Quebec

AWARDS

2010 - Dana Velan award for outstanding achievement in Fine Arts, St George’s High School of Montreal
2009 - Golden Brush Award in Visual Arts St George’s High School, Montreal, Quebec

RESIDENCIES

2019 Luminous Bodies Juried Art Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Ontario, Canada
2017 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Ontario, Canada

COLLECTIONS

YMCA of Quebec, Westmount, Quebec,
Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec,
St. George’s School of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec,
Private Collections - Montreal, Quebec; Rochester, New York; Toronto, Ontario; Vancouver, British Columbia,
Istanbul, Turkey

EDUCATION

2019 - BFA Program, Concordia University (Major Painting and Drawing)
2013 Fine Arts Program, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec
2010  - St. George’s School of Montreal, Westmount, Quebec

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2009-2012 - LOVE (Leave Out Violence) Community outreach presentations and
workshops for At-Risk-Youth, Montreal, Quebec

PUBLICATIONS

2018 - INarte Journal launch and artist talk
2017–Toronto 600 publication summer issue
2017–TorontoSix Hundred, Journal Fall issue

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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do"

Edgar Degas

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