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biography
http://www.navillusgallery.com/portfolio/sabine-liva/
video documentary
http://www.navillusgallery.com/portfolio/sabine-liva/
podcast
http://podcast.fourseasons.com/media_library/audio/JAC/JAC_017.mp3
http://www.navillusgallery.com/portfolio/sabine-liva/
video documentary
http://www.navillusgallery.com/portfolio/sabine-liva/
podcast
http://podcast.fourseasons.com/media_library/audio/JAC/JAC_017.mp3
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QUICK FACTS
Born: In 1976, Riga, Latvia
Residence: Toronto, Canada
Artwork: Landscapes
Media: Oil paintings on canvas
Current work: [LIGHT] Series
Online: www.sabstudios.com
Education
1997 - 1999 Ontario College of Art and Design. Graduated with Honors in Drawing and Painting. Toronto, Ontario
1998 - 1999 Ontario College of Art and Design Florence off-campus thesis studies. Florence, Italy
1995 - 1997 Art Academy of Latvia. Textile department. Riga, Latvia
1989 - 1995 Jans Rozentals College of Art. Riga, Latvia
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elegant, elusive and illuminated - Sabine's [LIGHT] Series landscapes are represented in the most laconic compositions.
Sabine Liva is a unique and penetrating artistic voice. Her creations fill a space with a profound and magical beauty. Colours and compositions in her paintings are exquisite and passionate. As a traditional painter, Sabine has traversed different schools, countries and cultures fine tuning her talents. She graduated with Honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design and completed her thesis studies in Florence, Italy. Sabine received her formal education in Riga , Latvia. She studied academic drawing and painting at the renowned Jan Rozental's School of Art and Academy of Latvia.
She has been successfully participating in numerous prestigious International art shows since 1995.
Sabine Liva's artwork is represented by several North American galleries. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections across Canada, USA, Far East and Europe (including Ritz-Carlton Toronto, Dubai Ritz, Four Seasons Jackson Hole, USA).
"In my stylized waterfront landscapes I try to capture the poetic beauty of air, water, light. These compositions are realistic and yet surreal, both traditional and modern. I work with images of real objects and set them within the context of the painting - it's about the evident and the intangible.
Follow your Heart!" SAB
Upcoming exhibitions
March 1-4, 2012
The Artist Project, Toronto, Canada
November 25 - December 5, 2012
One of a Kind Christmas Show, Toronto, Canada
Solo exhibitions
2011
"LANDSCAPED WORLD", No One Writes to the Colonel Café, Toronto, Canada
2006
"LIGHT SERIES", Sassafraz Restaurant, Toronto, Canada
2003
"UNITED COLOURS OF RIGA", Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002
"FRAGMENTED SUNLIGHT", Java Nook Café/Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001
"FRAGMENTED SUNLIGHT", Van Klaveren-Litherland office, Toronto, Canada
1999
"EXPRESS RIGA-FLORENCE-TORONTO", Gallery M6, Riga, Latvia
1996
"RETRO”, Kronis Hotel, Riga, Latvia
1996
"EVERYTHING LOOKS AT YOU”, Ala Cafe, Riga, Latvia
Selected group exhibitions
2011
"OPULENCE AND AUSTERITY, Navillus Gallery, Toronto, Canada
21st Annual Autumn Art Show, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Canada
"VENEZIA PROJECT 2011”, Studio Carapostol, Venice, Italy
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"THE ARTIST PROJECT”, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2010
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2009
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2008
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2007
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2006
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2005
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ARTEXPO NEW YORK”, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City, USA
2004
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
THE DISTILLERY ANNUAL OUTDOOR SHOW, The Distillery District, Toronto, Canada
2003
"INSIDE ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2002
"TORONTO OUTDOOR ART SHOW”, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Canada
2001
"TORONTO OUTDOOR ART SHOW”, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Canada
2000
"ECCO ECHO”, Steamwistle Brewery Roundhouse, Toronto, Canada
"ECCO ECHO”, 401 Richmond St.West Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"ECCO ECHO”, OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"ARTFOCUS 9TH ANNUAL ART SHOW ”, Metro Hall, Toronto, Canada
1999
"ARTFOCUS 8TH ANNUAL ART SHOW ”, BCE Place, Toronto, Canada
"JUNCTION ART'S FESTIVAL”, Dundas Street, Toronto, Canada
"RE-VIEW” 84TH Annual Student Exhibition, OCAD Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"ECCO ECHO”, Florence Studio, Florence, Italy
"US” Student Spring Exhibition, Presbyterian Church, Florence, Italy
1998
"BASTA…STOP IT”, Florence Studio, Florence, Italy
"CHRISTMAS ART SHOW", Gallery M6, Riga, Latvia
"MIND OVER MATTER” 83rd Annual Student Exhibition, OCAD Gallery, Toronto, Canada
„65”, OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
„65”, Cameron House, Toronto, Canada
1997
„SECOND”, Textile Association's of Latvia traveling show, across Latvia
1996
„SECOND”, Textile Association's of Latvia traveling show, across Latvia
„SEVEN” Textile Exhibition, Rozu Laukums Gallery, Liepaja, Latvia
„LIGO”, Mazirbe Community Centre, Mazirbe, Latvia
"PAVASARA SKATE", Annual Student Exhibition, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
1995
"PAVASARA SKATE", Annual Student Exhibition, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Awards / Special Projects
2004
Three original artworks and 18,000 reproductions commissioned by Toronto Maple Leafs Organization celebrating Gary Roberts and Tom Fitzgerald's historic 1,000th NHL game. Artwork was presented to each player and their families at center ice before the game at Air Canada Center, Toronto, Ontario
2002-2004
Artwork created for various NHL players including Adam Foote and Mark Parrish
1998
Women's Art Association of Canada Scholarship
1998
Charles Magee Memorial Tuition Scholarship
1997
1st prize in a work purchase competition by Ace Bakery
Charity
2007
Charity Auction hosted benefiting Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Toronto, Canada
2000-2011
Various prints have been donated to local charities
1999
Artwork donated to the Art Auction for charity hosted by the Canadian Syringomyelia Network, Toronto, Canada
Works in selected public collections
Ritz-Carlton Toronto, Canada
Four Seasons Jackson Hole, USA
Publications
2011
2007
2002
FOUR SEASONS JACKSON HOLE podcast, USA
NATIONAL POST newspaper, Toronto, Canada
"BLOOR WEST VILLAGE Art Tour” BWV newspaper, Toronto, Canada
1999
„SKREJIENS CAURI PASAULEI” by A. Krisjanis, „FF” magazine, Latvia
1998
"VECGADA ATSKAITE” by G.Stalte, „Rigas Balss” newspaper, Latvia
"VIESIS” radio show-live, Latvijas Radio, Latvia
1996
"SEPTINAS RUKITES” by A.Ose, „Kurzemes Vards” newspaper, Latvia
ESSAY
LANDSCAPE ILLUMINATED
Sabine Liva paints her world in sure strokes of poetry. Steps from her studio, the Toronto
waterfront goes about a busy life of boats and swans and spectacular skies. Sabine's subtly confident brush hovers and dips, capturing for us the drifting sheen of morning mists, the lonely echoes of shoreline gulls, the glimmer of pebbles washed perfectly smooth.
These grand portraits of lake and sky whisper primal secrets from the walls. The colours are warmly organic; mute masses of cloud and stone, lilting tints of wind and starlight. Silhouettes of boats and doves - the shadowed shapes of simple things - appear, hover and fade away with the whims and dreams of tides. Early fog, lace veils, spray and stone, wood and wave are here in balanced measures, simply placed.
These are joyful paintings, an art of love for the landscape that inspired them. In this powerful new collection of work, Sabine shows us once again the undeniable truth of the words that guide her.
Truly,
the world is beautiful.
Sean Patenaude
Born: In 1976, Riga, Latvia
Residence: Toronto, Canada
Artwork: Landscapes
Media: Oil paintings on canvas
Current work: [LIGHT] Series
Online: www.sabstudios.com
Education
1997 - 1999 Ontario College of Art and Design. Graduated with Honors in Drawing and Painting. Toronto, Ontario
1998 - 1999 Ontario College of Art and Design Florence off-campus thesis studies. Florence, Italy
1995 - 1997 Art Academy of Latvia. Textile department. Riga, Latvia
1989 - 1995 Jans Rozentals College of Art. Riga, Latvia
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elegant, elusive and illuminated - Sabine's [LIGHT] Series landscapes are represented in the most laconic compositions.
Sabine Liva is a unique and penetrating artistic voice. Her creations fill a space with a profound and magical beauty. Colours and compositions in her paintings are exquisite and passionate. As a traditional painter, Sabine has traversed different schools, countries and cultures fine tuning her talents. She graduated with Honours from the Ontario College of Art and Design and completed her thesis studies in Florence, Italy. Sabine received her formal education in Riga , Latvia. She studied academic drawing and painting at the renowned Jan Rozental's School of Art and Academy of Latvia.
She has been successfully participating in numerous prestigious International art shows since 1995.
Sabine Liva's artwork is represented by several North American galleries. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections across Canada, USA, Far East and Europe (including Ritz-Carlton Toronto, Dubai Ritz, Four Seasons Jackson Hole, USA).
"In my stylized waterfront landscapes I try to capture the poetic beauty of air, water, light. These compositions are realistic and yet surreal, both traditional and modern. I work with images of real objects and set them within the context of the painting - it's about the evident and the intangible.
Follow your Heart!" SAB
Upcoming exhibitions
March 1-4, 2012
The Artist Project, Toronto, Canada
November 25 - December 5, 2012
One of a Kind Christmas Show, Toronto, Canada
Solo exhibitions
2011
"LANDSCAPED WORLD", No One Writes to the Colonel Café, Toronto, Canada
2006
"LIGHT SERIES", Sassafraz Restaurant, Toronto, Canada
2003
"UNITED COLOURS OF RIGA", Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002
"FRAGMENTED SUNLIGHT", Java Nook Café/Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001
"FRAGMENTED SUNLIGHT", Van Klaveren-Litherland office, Toronto, Canada
1999
"EXPRESS RIGA-FLORENCE-TORONTO", Gallery M6, Riga, Latvia
1996
"RETRO”, Kronis Hotel, Riga, Latvia
1996
"EVERYTHING LOOKS AT YOU”, Ala Cafe, Riga, Latvia
Selected group exhibitions
2011
"OPULENCE AND AUSTERITY, Navillus Gallery, Toronto, Canada
21st Annual Autumn Art Show, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Canada
"VENEZIA PROJECT 2011”, Studio Carapostol, Venice, Italy
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"THE ARTIST PROJECT”, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2010
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2009
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2008
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2007
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ONE OF A KIND SHOW”, Direct Energy Centre, Toronto, Canada
2006
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2005
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
"ARTEXPO NEW YORK”, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City, USA
2004
"TORONTO ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
THE DISTILLERY ANNUAL OUTDOOR SHOW, The Distillery District, Toronto, Canada
2003
"INSIDE ART EXPO”, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2002
"TORONTO OUTDOOR ART SHOW”, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Canada
2001
"TORONTO OUTDOOR ART SHOW”, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Canada
2000
"ECCO ECHO”, Steamwistle Brewery Roundhouse, Toronto, Canada
"ECCO ECHO”, 401 Richmond St.West Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"ECCO ECHO”, OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"ARTFOCUS 9TH ANNUAL ART SHOW ”, Metro Hall, Toronto, Canada
1999
"ARTFOCUS 8TH ANNUAL ART SHOW ”, BCE Place, Toronto, Canada
"JUNCTION ART'S FESTIVAL”, Dundas Street, Toronto, Canada
"RE-VIEW” 84TH Annual Student Exhibition, OCAD Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"ECCO ECHO”, Florence Studio, Florence, Italy
"US” Student Spring Exhibition, Presbyterian Church, Florence, Italy
1998
"BASTA…STOP IT”, Florence Studio, Florence, Italy
"CHRISTMAS ART SHOW", Gallery M6, Riga, Latvia
"MIND OVER MATTER” 83rd Annual Student Exhibition, OCAD Gallery, Toronto, Canada
„65”, OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
„65”, Cameron House, Toronto, Canada
1997
„SECOND”, Textile Association's of Latvia traveling show, across Latvia
1996
„SECOND”, Textile Association's of Latvia traveling show, across Latvia
„SEVEN” Textile Exhibition, Rozu Laukums Gallery, Liepaja, Latvia
„LIGO”, Mazirbe Community Centre, Mazirbe, Latvia
"PAVASARA SKATE", Annual Student Exhibition, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
1995
"PAVASARA SKATE", Annual Student Exhibition, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Awards / Special Projects
2004
Three original artworks and 18,000 reproductions commissioned by Toronto Maple Leafs Organization celebrating Gary Roberts and Tom Fitzgerald's historic 1,000th NHL game. Artwork was presented to each player and their families at center ice before the game at Air Canada Center, Toronto, Ontario
2002-2004
Artwork created for various NHL players including Adam Foote and Mark Parrish
1998
Women's Art Association of Canada Scholarship
1998
Charles Magee Memorial Tuition Scholarship
1997
1st prize in a work purchase competition by Ace Bakery
Charity
2007
Charity Auction hosted benefiting Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Toronto, Canada
2000-2011
Various prints have been donated to local charities
1999
Artwork donated to the Art Auction for charity hosted by the Canadian Syringomyelia Network, Toronto, Canada
Works in selected public collections
Ritz-Carlton Toronto, Canada
Four Seasons Jackson Hole, USA
Publications
2011
2007
2002
FOUR SEASONS JACKSON HOLE podcast, USA
NATIONAL POST newspaper, Toronto, Canada
"BLOOR WEST VILLAGE Art Tour” BWV newspaper, Toronto, Canada
1999
„SKREJIENS CAURI PASAULEI” by A. Krisjanis, „FF” magazine, Latvia
1998
"VECGADA ATSKAITE” by G.Stalte, „Rigas Balss” newspaper, Latvia
"VIESIS” radio show-live, Latvijas Radio, Latvia
1996
"SEPTINAS RUKITES” by A.Ose, „Kurzemes Vards” newspaper, Latvia
ESSAY
LANDSCAPE ILLUMINATED
Sabine Liva paints her world in sure strokes of poetry. Steps from her studio, the Toronto
waterfront goes about a busy life of boats and swans and spectacular skies. Sabine's subtly confident brush hovers and dips, capturing for us the drifting sheen of morning mists, the lonely echoes of shoreline gulls, the glimmer of pebbles washed perfectly smooth.
These grand portraits of lake and sky whisper primal secrets from the walls. The colours are warmly organic; mute masses of cloud and stone, lilting tints of wind and starlight. Silhouettes of boats and doves - the shadowed shapes of simple things - appear, hover and fade away with the whims and dreams of tides. Early fog, lace veils, spray and stone, wood and wave are here in balanced measures, simply placed.
These are joyful paintings, an art of love for the landscape that inspired them. In this powerful new collection of work, Sabine shows us once again the undeniable truth of the words that guide her.
Truly,
the world is beautiful.
Sean Patenaude
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QUOTES
"Sabine Liva's abstracts evoke subtle moods with great elegance."
Patrick Donohue
dilletantesdiary.com, Toronto, Canada
--
"It was wonderful to see Sabine's work! I love the light and serenity the work evokes and the familiar textures it layers; landscapes with immense history in the light of the present day. I loved them."
Wendy Van Riesen
dahliadrive.com, Vancouver, Canada
--
"Abstracts with a Horizon."
unknown viewer
Toronto, Canada
--
"Sabine,
Thank you for introducing me to the wisdom and timelessness of your art.
Beyond the beauty of your work, I left struggling with why your abstract paintings affect me so emotionally.
My theory is they evoke archetypal memories as defined by Jungian psychology. I experience your strata as going back through layers of time and earth. The flora images seem prehistoric.
One example is your repeated use of the gondola form. It struck me it had folkloric meaning, perhaps a vessel for the soul to a Valhalla-like place?
I am not asking you for explanations.
I wanted to simply share the success of your work as a communication medium, that so powerfully engages me in finding personal meaning. For me, this is the highest order of success for an abstract artist.
Your show nourished my soul, I look forward to your next one."
Richard Childs
Magellan Training Consulting, Toronto, Canada
--
"Sabine Liva's abstracts evoke subtle moods with great elegance."
Patrick Donohue
dilletantesdiary.com, Toronto, Canada
--
"It was wonderful to see Sabine's work! I love the light and serenity the work evokes and the familiar textures it layers; landscapes with immense history in the light of the present day. I loved them."
Wendy Van Riesen
dahliadrive.com, Vancouver, Canada
--
"Abstracts with a Horizon."
unknown viewer
Toronto, Canada
--
"Sabine,
Thank you for introducing me to the wisdom and timelessness of your art.
Beyond the beauty of your work, I left struggling with why your abstract paintings affect me so emotionally.
My theory is they evoke archetypal memories as defined by Jungian psychology. I experience your strata as going back through layers of time and earth. The flora images seem prehistoric.
One example is your repeated use of the gondola form. It struck me it had folkloric meaning, perhaps a vessel for the soul to a Valhalla-like place?
I am not asking you for explanations.
I wanted to simply share the success of your work as a communication medium, that so powerfully engages me in finding personal meaning. For me, this is the highest order of success for an abstract artist.
Your show nourished my soul, I look forward to your next one."
Richard Childs
Magellan Training Consulting, Toronto, Canada
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