Paula Puoskari
Basic information
Visual Artist, Painter, Installation Artist
Residence: HELSINKI
Contact information
Phone number: +358 40 515 2270
Email: paula.puoskari@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
I am a Helsinki-based visual artist. In my art an expressive mass-based approach to painting alternates with the rhythm of lines and dots. I am in search of a style of expression that penetrates the levels of time and touches the primitive. I depict a perspective that reaches both the surface and all of the layers underneath at the same time. My works are paintings on canvas and paper giants that rise to ceiling height.
What interests me about paintings on canvas is the weave that combines the power of the material, the delicacy of translucence and the rhythm of lines and dots. I mainly use oil and acrylic paints, but occasionally I also add ink and watercolor to my paintings. I may also add sculpture-like elements to my paintings. Sometimes intense layers of oil paint serve the purpose and other times I may, for example, create my paintings on a relief-like foundation that I have made from Japanese paper glued to the canvas.
I paint my giants on thin paper, for example Japanese paper or law book pages. The over 3-meter tall figures are created from several thin layers of acrylic paint, almost making the thin paper merge into the paint. Sometimes I work with acrylic paint and glue so that no paper is needed to paint the figures. In this case the giants are, entirely or at least in part, made from nothing but paint. My giants are characterized by elongated primitive shapes and a certain animal-like quality.
What interests me about paintings on canvas is the weave that combines the power of the material, the delicacy of translucence and the rhythm of lines and dots. I mainly use oil and acrylic paints, but occasionally I also add ink and watercolor to my paintings. I may also add sculpture-like elements to my paintings. Sometimes intense layers of oil paint serve the purpose and other times I may, for example, create my paintings on a relief-like foundation that I have made from Japanese paper glued to the canvas.
I paint my giants on thin paper, for example Japanese paper or law book pages. The over 3-meter tall figures are created from several thin layers of acrylic paint, almost making the thin paper merge into the paint. Sometimes I work with acrylic paint and glue so that no paper is needed to paint the figures. In this case the giants are, entirely or at least in part, made from nothing but paint. My giants are characterized by elongated primitive shapes and a certain animal-like quality.
Current information
www.paulapuoskari.comSolo exhibitions:
2017 Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, ”Terra Incognita”, Helsinki
2016 GalleriaKONE, “The Battle for Light”, Hämeenlinna
2015 Galleria Aarni, “On Our Way to Staglieno”, Espoo
2014 Mältinranta Artcenter, ”Janus ja Justitia”, Tampere
(more see http://paulapuoskari.com/curriculumvitae/)
Group exhibitions:
2018 ”Tip of the Iceberg”, Stormhouse Projects/ArtHelix, West Chelsea Arts Bulding, 526 West 26th St. # 523, New York
2018 80th Anniversary Exhibition of Finnish Art Associations, ”Party”, Joensuu
2018 Opening exhibition of Eerikinkatu 36 Huuto, ”Huuto oot uuh – Huuto you are wow!”, Helsinki
2017 Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 ArtFair Suomi17, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, ”Yksiö/One-Room Flat”, Helsinki
2015 Found in Translation, Scotty Enterprises Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 State+, Kakola, Turku, Finland
(more see http://paulapuoskari.com/curriculumvitae/)
