RICHard SMOLinski

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Welcome to the Site!


My work Uh-Oh was recently shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize!


This is Similarivalry, part of my series 
Comflicated.

The Comfliucated images are designed for installation in the corners of galleries and other exhibition spaces. 
My great thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their support of the Comflicated project. 

Here is a quick overview of my favoured working methods 


RECENT PROJECT: Scrutinearsighted Cointagions at
Terrain Gallery
Spokane, Washington, USA
January-February, 2019

Performance: Cointagious!
Friday, January 4 6:30 pm
 

Scrutinearsighted
Terrain Gallery Spokane, WA 2019
photo crdit: Carl Richardson

Cointagious COINterventions

Participatory workshop at Terrain Gallery. 2019

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“Judgy”

Yeah, I admit that my work is “judgy. ”

Unfortunately, I am constantly comparing the way the world is to what it might be—and my being a satirist is the result of my 
irritation over the world’s failure to meet its potential; I have to say something about the shortcomings and problems that I see.

Making art may not cause substantive change, but it beats apathy and silence.
About
RICHard
SMOLinski
I am a Canadian  artist and educator. My works veer from satirical social criticism and language corruption to meditative durational performances where the limits of creative engagement are explored.

I worked for many years in both Calgary and Toronto but recently moved to St. Catherines, Ontario. I currently teach at  the amazing Marilyn I. Walker School of the Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University and The Ontario College of Art & Design University. 

I earned my PhD in Art from the University of Calgary for my dissertation,  Practices of Fluid Authority: Participatory Art and Creative Audience Engagement. My research was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship.

 


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