Conrad Sarzynick
Jan 18 – March 11, 2023
Tues, Wed & Thurs 12-5pm
at the qathet Art Centre
Artist RECEPTION: Wednesday, January 18, 7 to 9pm
About Resurface
Through wood sculpture and hand-cut collage, the exhibition “Resurface” by artist Conrad Sarzynick explores how transformation is a potent force of discovery often dancing between destruction and rejuvenation, submersion and emerging, confusion and awe. Resurfacing from something into the beginning of something else. How do we get there and what will we find?
Transforming wood and paper images as an intuitive act of discovery. At the beginning there is only the material, no fully conceived idea of what the final forms will become. The work is improvised. Finding and uncovering the hidden yet clear vision beneath the surface, something sensed felt and pulled towards but unknown until it is fully revealed.
This work is about discovery, both during the process of creating and through experiencing what has been created. What will we find as we Resurface?
About the artist
Conrad Sarzynick is an artist who began sculpting wood and making hand-cut collage in Ontario during the 1990s. Since 1999 he has lived permanently in British Columbia, first in Vancouver, then in 2011 to Powell River on British Columbia’s upper Sunshine Coast. He has exhibited in galleries and group shows in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Richmond, Powell River, Sechelt and along the Sunshine Coast and has had outdoor public sculptures in Castlegar, Penticton, Nelson, and Sechelt. Conrad is also a poet and painter who enjoys experimental vocal work and collaborating with improvisational musicians.