- City
- Toronto
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 25
Tara Nix
Tara Nix also known as "Jinx" in contemporary works is a Toronto-based visual artist who specializes in painting and mixed media. Before attending Sheridan College for the Visual and Creative Arts program she also received her BA from the University of Ottawa in General Arts and Art History. Her diverse, raw, and sensational style challenges the constraints of aesthetics through landscapes, graffiti, mixed media, pop art, and experimentation. Her art is designed to produce a voyeur experience that conveys the atmosphere of the diverging locations and settings she portrays. Influenced by the functionality of light and color in art she constructs visual spectacles that engage and entertain its viewer.
The focus series was developed by the influence of bokeh photography. Tara began painting landscapes in impressionism but aimed to challenge herself by evolving her painting style to shift towards abstraction. Developing compositions that are based on out of focus points of view. Capturing natures ‘color swatches' and representing it using bokeh patterns and shades. Rather than using an impasto painting technique to add dimension she uses the overlaying circles in bokeh to capturing the softened out of focus points of light. Painting with acrylic open paints and matte medium to disrupt the opacity and saturation while emphasizing bold, and vibrant colors. Utilizing color, light sources, and capturing the excitement, and atmosphere of the environments depicted.
