Jay Senetchko

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia
Title: I Remember that Yellow Chair
Media: Oil on canvas / huile sur toile
Dimensions: 103 x 146 cm
Website: senetchko.ca

I have come to realize over the years that my work revolves around nostalgia for history, events, things, ideas and people.  Nostalgia is by its very nature romantic, so I guess that makes me a bit of a romantic as well.  Both nostalgia and romanticism distort whatever they filter in the direction of the nostalgic’s interest.  My interest in nostalgia is not a desire to return to a mythical golden age, or to revive prejudicially cherished modes of being or thought, but to explore. I believe that through the reflection and exploration of things past we gain a better purchase on the present. But more importantly, while informing our present the past also propels us into the future.  Nostalgia and romanticism seen in this way are tools for building the future.  This picture is, as I hope all of my pictures are, nostalgic for me in this way.

2013 Honourable Mention

EDUCATION:
2006 Odd Nerdrum apprenticeship
2001 Vancouver Film School, Diploma of Classical Animation
1997 Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction, University of Alberta

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2011 Systems, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Still, Jacana Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 Drawing from Beneath the Surface, Elliot Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Summer Show, Blackheath Gallery, London, UK
2010 The Drawing Room, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2008 Kitsch Biennale, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany

AWARDS:
2012 Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (juried; 1st place award)
2011 Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (juried; 2nd place award)
2007 Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (juried; 2nd place award)

TEACHING/PANELS:
2001 Life Drawing, Perspective and Composition Instructor, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002 Art History instructor, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 Juror, Airs, Canadian Federation of Artists, Vancouver, BC, Canada