Artist Of The Month For January 2022: Kirk Sutherland
Kirk Sutherland. Dialing In The Meteors.“In a world of possibility, I see art in everything”
Kirk Sutherland is an eminent artist whose artwork spreads across various galleries in his 30 years of producing innovative abstract art.
He channels his skills to express and delegate his craft, which he describes as a spiritual experience. Sutherland believes that the process of rendering art is equally as important as the finished piece.
Kirk Sutherland. Ruler of the Ninth House.
Kirk Sutherland. Siberian Mars.A Toronto-based Canadian artist, Kirk graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design in 1991 with high honors. His major in contemporary art, drawing, and painting eventually propelled his career as a renowned colorist. Under the guidance of fellow artists like Francois Thepot, Graham Coughtry, Dan Solomon, and many more, Sutherland has excelled in creating spectacular abstract-expressionist art over the years.
Kirk Sutherland. Lantana.Kirk aligns abstract expressionism to post-painterly abstractions. Rather than indulging in elaborate story-telling through art, he expresses his paintings without drama. It renders him to create ingenuity through carefully articulated brushstrokes and superior techniques. Kirk uses varied compositions in his craft with painted colorful dots like his works, Within the wandering, Sonic Evaporation, Calluna, Risen Thought, and many such extraordinary expressions. He also adopts horizontal lines and straight verticals seen in his other works like, On the edge of illumination.
Kirk has held many solo exhibitions internationally and at his hometowns, Toronto and Ontario. His paintings are displayed as part of a public collection in North America and Europe. The artist continues to create extraordinary artworks in Toronto, Canada.