Contemporary Canadian Artist
JD Kirlik
JD Kirlik is a Canadian visual artist whose work bridges symbolic abstraction, geometric precision, and expressive gesture.
Drawing on mythology, psychology, and contemporary issues, each piece functions as both image and inquiry, designed to provoke thought beyond the surface.
JD Kirlik, Artist
As a Canadian artist with extensive education, creative experience, combined with with many years of practical work experience in the field of fine art and graphics/commercial art, JD Kirlik has gained not only a mastery of mediums, but an extensive underlying understanding of art and the all-important application of various thematic points to his work.
JD Kirlik is a graduate of the MHC Graphics/Visual Communication Department with many years of experience in the printing, graphics and advertising industry as a career and has had several gallery co-exhibitions throughout the years.
The work is largely thematic in nature, exploring a wide range of subjects such as mythology, contemporary societal/political issues presented in different, yet convergent, emerging styles.
Statement of Artistic Philosophical Intent:
I feel effective art should be a synthesis combination, conveying a sense of mystery rooted in familiarity, a thought-provoking presentation of work that evokes a visceral or intellectual response, optimally a very effective blend of emotion/mind…
“I paint ideas, not just images.”
Paintings are icons/images that should convey ideas, hopefully sparking dialogue/debate and thus represent a concept beyond the immediate image that is physically created by the artist… One thing about great art is that it should typically pose questions, and if the content of my work causes questions and provocation, so be it…
“Something of quality, simple, communicative, yet possibly complex, all literally in the same stroke”...
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$120.00RISUS CONGUE VIVERRA
$120.00NUNC SODALES
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$548.00PELLENTESQUE SED
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$399.00
Statement of Artistic Philosophical Intent:
I feel effective art should be a synthesis combination, conveying a sense of mystery rooted in familiarity, a thought-provoking presentation of work that evokes a visceral or intellectual response, optimally a very effective blend of emotion/mind…
“I paint ideas, not just images.”
Paintings are icons/images that should convey ideas, hopefully sparking dialogue/debate and thus represent a concept beyond the immediate image that is physically created by the artist… One thing about great art is that it should typically pose questions, and if the content of my work causes questions and provocation, so be it…
“Something of quality, simple, communicative, yet possibly complex, all literally in the same stroke”...
Key Points of Consideration:
A presentation of versatile quality, combined with mixed disciplines of chosen medias in the following styles:
- Symbolic Abstraction – Talismans, Tokens & Totems (tachiste gestures) atavistic referral.
- Lineal – Geometric Abstraction/Symbolism
- Lyrical Abstraction
- Shape Symbolism/Representation
- Archetypal forms/shapes influenced by mythology and the archetypal concepts of C.G. Jung
- Line Symbolism