Mina Vancardo
Mixed Media
Collage Mina Vancardo graduated with a BA in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto. Immediately following her degree, she completed her Bachelor of Education and has been teaching teens Visual Arts since 2001. A balance of classical and emotional (technical and experimental) instruction is the center of her teaching practice; encouraging her students to learn from artists while experimenting and exploring as an approach to finding the artist within. Website: minavancardo.com |
ARTIST STATEMENT
My mixed media collages are tiny narratives for the imagination. They are intended to be playful yet earnest, and nostalgic but progressive; single pieces that tell many stories to all observers. This obsession with saving discarded, ephemeral materials and transforming them into cherished, timeless expressions is my polysemous artistry. A reshaping of the old into the new. Finding infinite meanings in the finite expression. The dynamic in the static. Butterflies from caterpillars.
My mixed media collages are tiny narratives for the imagination. They are intended to be playful yet earnest, and nostalgic but progressive; single pieces that tell many stories to all observers. This obsession with saving discarded, ephemeral materials and transforming them into cherished, timeless expressions is my polysemous artistry. A reshaping of the old into the new. Finding infinite meanings in the finite expression. The dynamic in the static. Butterflies from caterpillars.