Marc Brzustowski
Marc is a painter of landscapes, who sets up his easel in the streets and on the rocks the way the Group of Seven did. He takes the advice that no interior studio work is ever as good as engaging directly with the immediate; the wind, sun and light playing across an ever changing landscape. "My paintings are not monumental; they are incidental, mementos of a specific place and time of day. I am moved by the intensity of my visual experiences to “bookmark” them with paintings – painted pictures, painted postcards. My chief ambition is simply to create an image capable of suggesting some small moving part of the moment that called me to paint it." Marc's paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Ottawa, Montreal, Sydney, Meat Cove, Halifax, Amsterdam and Toronto. He now lives in Manitoulin Island.
Marc Brzustowski at Gallery 1313
“Montreal artist Marc Brzustowski is an engagingly old-fashioned painter who sets up his easel in the streets just the way the French Impressionists did, and paints what he sees. The result of this rather refreshingly conventional practice is the vast number of delectable little oil panels making up his exhibition 'tabernaque attaque!' in the tiny process gallery at Gallery 1313.
If I simply list their subjects – Montreal streets, Montreal canals, bridges, warehouses, churches – it's going to sound dull. But words cannot convey Brzustowski's remarkable way with light and atmosphere, his way of incarnating watery sunlight. The paintings may be traditional but they're effulgent with visual pleasure.”
Gallery Going
Gary Michael Dault
Globe and Mail, Dec. 18, 2004
Price Range: $400 - $2,000
