{"id":2086,"date":"2014-09-27T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:10:52","slug":"aleksandra-hawley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/aleksandra-hawley","title":{"rendered":"Aleksandra Hawley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUndoing<\/em>
\n8″x8″; found paper and pencil on cardboard; 2014<\/p>\n

Aleksandra Hawley
\nCobourg, Ontario, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

I start from a found image where I am compelled to feel a seed of an unexplored landscape of the mind or soul in a material image. The geography of physical presence, the human body and its endless expressions of loss, fragility, vulnerability and imagining perfection lend themselves to what I do with paper. More often than\u00a0not, pencil, oil pastels and acrylics offer additional resources.<\/p>\n

There are days and weeks when there are no collages I am happy with. And happiness is defined by that particular moment when paper speaks to my yearning for expressing just the right combination of vulnerability, loss or redemption. I find paper, I intervene and it speaks to me. I have exhibited in juried shows and am looking\u00a0towards an exhibit of my collages in Amsterdam in November 2014.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

My life is a sequence of unexpected and somewhat mitigated images. After studies in\u00a0architectural engineering, I delved into Art History and received an MA in the Social History of Art. I curated contemporary art exhibitions, wrote catalogues and basically tried hard to mediate artists’ statements in galleries and museums in Europe.<\/p>\n

Continuing on a project of digitizing art galleries and museums of Canada, I was struck by the fact that my endless settling and resettling brought about a melancholy absence of a stable environment from which I would lend an unobstructed critique of the “other” artist language. My language of exploring the ever changing\u00a0environment of languages and landscapes became my collage work.<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

[click to email<\/a>]
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IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe Mess<\/em>
\n10″x10″; found paper and sandpaper on cardboard; 2014<\/p>\n

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\nRelocated Landscape<\/em>
\n12″x12″; found paper, pencil on paper; 2014<\/p>\n

\"aleksandra-hawley-may-have-been-web\"
\nMay Have Been<\/em>
\n10″x 10″; paper, acrylic, ink on board; 2013<\/p>\n

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\nAltered Book Cover<\/em>
\n5″x7″; collage, pencil, oil pastel; 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cobourg, Ontario<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[118],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/aleksandra-hawley-the-mess-web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-xE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}