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Mark Boyko
East Hastings, 2012, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 60&rdquo;
Mark Boyko&rsquo;s canvasses are forcefully immersive and strikingly beautiful to look at. They are especially successful when seen in person and on a large scale. With elongated brushtrokes bursting from a strong vanishing point, Mark invites the audience into his bleary Vancouver landscapes. Despite their monochromatism, the paintings have an energy which breathe both inwards and outwards, sometimes highlighted by a single stroke or fleck of pale colour.
A student of world-renowned superstar artist Alessandro Papeti, Boyko, fortunately for us, has translated this painting&nbsp;technique to capture his hometown of Vancouver in an aesthetic language that depicts space as emotion rather than description.
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