Kirsti Tuokko
Basic information
b. 1943, Helsinki
Visual artist, painter
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Email: tuokko@hotmail.com
Artist’s Statement
Being interested in people's visual messages, my work focuses on posing, clothing, fashion and trends.
I work with oil on plexiglass, which is shiny and transparent and as a material responds my fashion-trendy themes. Transparency allows me to paint on the backside, which I very much like. Being on the backside of the painting prevents me from controlling everything and thus gives freedom and to my material, oil paint to bring out its own random decisions.
I also make thin dry point drawings with oil paint on plexiglass, specially in my Little Girls .
I work with oil on plexiglass, which is shiny and transparent and as a material responds my fashion-trendy themes. Transparency allows me to paint on the backside, which I very much like. Being on the backside of the painting prevents me from controlling everything and thus gives freedom and to my material, oil paint to bring out its own random decisions.
I also make thin dry point drawings with oil paint on plexiglass, specially in my Little Girls .