Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline
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Exhibition - Current
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Exhibition - Past
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B. Winnipeg, Mb, CANADA, 1980.
Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline is currently attending Columbia University's MFA program in New York and is a recent Graduate of the University of Manitoba's BFA program. Over the course of his education he has produced a body of work employing a variety of media and disciplines. He has also been engaged in a variety of exhibitions and activities within Winnipeg, New York, and elsewhere.
"The primary focus of my practice has been the production of figurative oil paintings created through a process of psychic auditing in which imagery is generated through a process of intuitive exploration. I would describe my practice as a cycle of ingestion, gestation and expulsion of imagery. I am interested in the way imagery is absorbed and then reconstituted in the mind. Using the Manitoban landscape as a stage, these paintings deploy a variety of content and techniques in order to form a site of organization for disparate information. These works negotiate the tradition of painting as it intersects with personal experience and a constructed linguistic economy. Rather than seeking a space of escapism, my paintings create an ambivalent space in which the personal meets spectacle to form a solipsistic narrative plexus. With my paintings I hope to short circuit paintings traditional appeal towards transcendence and create images that anticipate their own annihilation".
As a student at Columbia University, Krisjanis has become increasingly dedicated to the cultivation of a serious practice both in terms of the technical production and the exploration of the concepts within the work.
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Artist CV
Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline.
b. 1980, lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada
Education:
Masters of Fine Arts, Columbia University, 2008
Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours, Double Major: Painting/Video,
University of Manitoba, 2006
Selected Exhibitions and International Art Fairs:
2010 Featured Artist: Scope Basel, Switzerland
2009 Watkins Corporeal, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Ontario
Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Springs, California
The Phoenix Art, The Renewed Life of Contemporary Paniting, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, Canada
The Open, Deitch Studios, Long Island City, New York, USA
2008 Brandon Oh!, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba
The New Akademiks, Galarie Schuster, Berlin, Germany.
New York School, Rohrer Fine Arts, Laguna Beach, California, USA
Subconscious City, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2007 A Warmer Lot (Solo) Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects,Toronto
Scope Basel, Switzerland
Scope New York, New York
Art LA, Los Angeles
2006 Art vs Real Life, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Scope Miami Art Fair
Aces High, Aceart.inc, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Art Chicago at The Mart, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Art(212), New York, USA
Myoclonic Jerks (Solo) , Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects,Toronto,
2005 Another Other, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, Scotland
Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA
The Winter Warmer, Aceart.inc, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada
Youth Group, Fifth Parallel Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Three Way featuring: Cliff Eyland, Craig Love and Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline
Cream Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The Retirement Show, Outworks Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
p.s. Annual Juried Student Show, Aceart.inc, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Just Filling Space, Outworks Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2004 One Month Free Rent, Label Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Aesthetically Pleasing, GOSA Gallery, Winnipeg, Manioba, Canada
College Pro, Outworks Gallery, Winniperg, Manitoba, Canada
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