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Emilija
Pasagic is a native of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia.
Formally educated in landscape architecture, she worked
in Europe for several years. She arrived in Canada
in 1993 and settled in Toronto, where she and her
family continue to live. Emilija had always drawn
and painted and the settlement in Canada sparked an
artistic rejuvenation. Early works include paintings
on silk and an intense series of abstracted fruits
and figures. She became involved in the vibrant Toronto
art scene, joining "The Scollard Street Artistic Cooperative"
and "VAO" (Visual Arts Ontario). Her focus is now
on paintings of still life, particularly fruit and
flowers executed in a richly textured mixed media.
Her technique involves a unique blending of bee's
wax and oil paint applied to paper, board or canvas.
In this contemporary reference to the ancient technique
of encaustic, the paint is sometimes blended into
the hot wax, burnt into it or simply painted upon
it. Careful layering and scratching is used to accent
the texture. The resulting tones are the yellows and
oranges of Spain and Morocco and the olives and crimsons
of the Mediterranean. The happy placement of flowers
and fruits seemingly narrate life's journeys. They
tell stories of being together or apart and of creating
identity.
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS: 2000 New York Art Expo, New York, NY
USA 1999 Ciparis-Lennox Gallery, Toronto Envers Chapin
Gallery, Toronto Michelangelo Art Gallery, Toronto
38th Annual Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto Gallery
Art Zone, Toronto Art Focus 8th Artists Show, Toronto
1998 Art Focus 7th Artists Show, Toronto Gallery Art
Zone 37th Annual Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto 1997
Red Head Gallery "Mighty Canadian Art", Toronto 36th
Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto Solo Show: Gallery
104 Cooperative, Toronto 1996 Gallery Praxis, Toronto
Gallery 104 Cooperative, Toronto 35th Outdoor Art
Exhibition, Toronto 1995 The Artview Gallery, Hamilton,
Ontario COLLECTIONS: Shaheenend Peaker Ltd., Ontario
Various private collections in Canada, USA, Germany,
Yugoslavia and United Kingdom
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