NAME: JoAnna Winik
BIRTH PLACE: Canada
BIOGRAPHY
J.T Winik is a Canadian figurative painter who divides her time between Holland, Spain and Canada. She first began to spend extensive periods in Europe in 1996 to participate in an artists residence in southern Spain and has since worked, as well, at the guest studio of the Retort Artist's Foundation in Amsterdam. She also has a studio in her home in Canada.
Frequently incorporating the female form, and with a focus on female sexuality, recurring themes examine the ambiguous space between opposite emotional or physical states. The concepts of beauty and ugliness, power and fragility, guilt and innocence, passion and passivity, etc. provide wide ranges in which to explore connections between these poles.
Most recently, Winik's work takes a closer view of the figure, settling on the face itself, absent of context. A face reveals but it also hides and any face in any moment is a unique and intricate weaving of the lines which connect opposite states. A facial expression is never one thing or another, but a melding of differences.
