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STATEMENT
Social Comment and
Portraits: Combining my academic background in social-psychology with the hands-on, practical experience of art education provides me with a
unique "eye" to interpret life in the global "village." Using oil or acrylic paints I produce paintings that reflect my dualistic background, with art that is often simultaneously soothing and unsettling, whimsical and menacing, humorous
and cryptic. Sometimes I pose a social issue, leaving the choice of solution to the viewer.
Botanicals and Abstract Art: I don't want to leave my alter ego out of the scene; for a change of subject matter I paint the fruits,
flowers and vegetables growing in my gardens.
In the abstract arena I take the opportunity to avoid specific subjects and let paint, color and forms interplay.
During this process, rhythms and forms begin to emerge which remind me of my
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EDUCATION
- M.A. (Education) Syracuse University
- M.Ed. (Counseling Psychology) University of BC
- Diploma of Fine Arts, Langara College, Vancouver BC
INDEPENDENT STUDIES
- 1986-1992
~ Leslie Poole, Vancouver BC
~ Michael Britton, Head of Vancouver Academy of Art BC
- 1992
~ Ted Jacobs, Ateliers d'Art Internationaux, Les Cerqueux Sous Passavant, France
- 1999-2002
~ John Viljoen, Avenue Road Arts School, Toronto ON
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EXHIBITIONS
- 2009
~ VAE Gallery, Raleigh NC, On Going and Featured Artist in
summer
~ Silk Purse Gallery, Group Show in Vancouver BC
- 2008
~ Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest Hungary, HMC Group Show in July
~ Artists In Our Midst, preview show and open studio Vancouver
BC
~ Silk Purse Gallery, on going West Vancouver. Community Center
Arts Council BC
~ Visual Arts Exchange, on going Raleigh NC USA
- 2007
~ Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest Hungary,
Group Show in August
~ Visual Art Exchange Gallery, Raleigh North Carolina, featured artist for August
~ University Women's Club, Hycroft
Gallery, summer show
~ Silk Purse Gallery, Duo show, West Vancouver Community Arts Council BC
~ Nador Gallery, Group show, Budapest Hungary
~ Deer Lake Gallery, Group show, Burnaby Arts Council BC
- 2006
~ University Women's Club of Vancouver Summer Show
~ 13th Hungarian Multicultural Centre, Artists Residency Program in May
~ Balontonfured Congress Center
Art Show, Hungary in August
~ Euphorbia, Rotary Art Show, juried in White Rock BC
~ Vancouver in Bloom, Van Dusen Botanical Gardens
~ Visual Art Exchange Gallery, Raleigh NC, Ongoing
- 2005
~ Visual Art Exchange Show, Raleigh NC
~ East End Arts Council, Group Show, Long Island NY
~ Greenpeace 3rd Annual Show, Toronto ON
~ Secret Garden Tea Co, Solo Show, Vancouver BC
- 2004
~ Toronto Heliconian Group Exhibition
~ Collage Art Show & Sale, Toronto ON
~ Darlings Open Studio, Toronto ON
~ Broken Fence Society, Juried Art Exhibition, Toronto ON
~ Le
Gallery, Group Show, Toronto ON
- 2003
~ Propeller Centre-Visual Arts, Juried Show, Toronto ON
~ ArtiVizier, Solo exhibition, Hoog Soeren Netherlands
~ Broken Fence Society; Juried Art Exhibition, Toronto ON
(honourable mention)
~ Darlings Studio Visit, Toronto ON
- 2002
~ Toronto Heliconian Life Drawing Group Exhibition
~ Juried Environmental Art Exhibition, Toronto ON
~ National Ballet of Canada Art Show, Hummingbird Centre, Toronto ON
~ The Red
Head Gallery, Group exhibition Toronto ON
~ Mystery Art, Famous & the Not-So-Famous, OCAD, Toronto ON
- 2001
~ Woolfitt's Gallery, Annual Art Exhibition, Toronto ON
~ Toronto Heliconian Club, Small Works Exhibition, Toronto ON
~ Rotunda Exhibition at City Hall, Toronto ON
~ The Red Head
Gallery, Group Exhibition, Toronto ON
~ The Avenue Road Arts School, Annual Adult Art Show, Toronto ON
~ National Ballet of Canada Art Show, Hummingbird Centre, Toronto ON
- 2000
~ Toronto Heliconian Club, Small Works Exhibition, Toronto ON
~ National Ballet of Canada Art Show, Hummingbird Centre, Toronto ON
- 1999-1998
~ Deborah Worsfold Gallery, Vancouver BC
- 1998-1996
~ Open Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
- 1997
~ Solo show, Basic Inquiry, Vancouver BC
- 1996
~ Group show, Basic Inquiry, Vancouver BC
~ Community Arts Council of Vancouver Juried Exhibition
- 1995
~ Gallery of BC Ceramics, Metamorphosis, Sculpture of the Autumnal Equinox, Vancouver BC
~ Sidney & Gertrude Zack Gallery, Jewish Beaux Arts Vancouver BC
~ Basic Inquiry, Group Show,
Vancouver BC
- 1992
~ Ateliers d'Art Internationaux, Les Cerqueux Sous Passavant, Group exhibition, France
~ Vancouver Life Drawing Society, Annual Members' Exhibition
- 1991
~ Baya Salon, Solo Exhibition, Vancouver BC
~ Community Arts Council of Vancouver, Juried Exhibition, (honourable mention)
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SELECTED
DONATIONS
2008
~ Pivot Foundation
~ BC Childhood Cancer Parent's Association
2005
~ Sierra Legal Defense Fund, Exhibition & Auction, Vancouver BC
~ Women's University Club, Christmas at Hycroft Benefit, Vancouver BC
2004
~ Sunnybrook & Women's Foundation, Art Auction Benefit Toronto ON
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
PUBLICATIONS
RECOMMENDED
LINKS
www.ernestbecker.org
The mission of the Ernest Becker Foundation is to bring advances in social scientific theory to the
public in efforts to reduce human violence.
We are devoted to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on our brutality toward one another. Drawing on Becker's writings, especially the
last three: Birth and Death of Meaning (1971), his Pulitzer Prize-winning Denial of Death and its companion Escape From Evil, and now on the Becker Reader, the
EBF supports research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, social action and religion.
www.robertpos.info
People take it for granted that their lives divide into three time zones: past, present and future. Some people live
predominantly in their private past; others in their future time zone. Then there are those who, as the Latin saying "carpe diem" goes, seize the day. It is the general consensus among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social
scientists that a person's time perspective is acquired and variable in nature. Robert Pos, however, came to a different point of view based on his clinical experience with and research on 405 consecutive office patients
(1987-1991). He concluded that people's time perspectives can be reduced to two mutually exclusive, universally occurring and therefore genetically determined personality types: those he termed alphas who predominantly relate
emotionally to their here-and-now, but have difficulty in relating emotionally to their past and future (the future is "not yet the present," the past "no longer the present"); and those he called betas, who have no problem
relating emotionally to their future and past, but find it hard to focus primarily on their here-and-now. Pos came to the conclusion that this genetically determined duality in time perspectives is due to two different ways of
autobiographic memory recording from which one's life story derives and which begins around age 5-6.
www.crystalpainter.com
Crystal Deshaies lives in False Creek, Vancouver BC
and is active in the community with a number of arts
groups and donates her talents to various community and
non-profit organizations. She has won several arts awards,
including a Senior BC Cultural Fund Award, and a Canada
Council Touring Award. Her work has been widely exhibited
in Vancouver, and Crystal now devotes herself to creating
"Home and Garden Portraits", as well as personalized
"Winsome Portraits" for her clients, and their loved ones.
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