Artist bio

Dasha Klymenko is a Ukrainian-born and Canadian-based multidisciplinary artist who has been living and working in Toronto Canada since 2005.

Dasha was born in Kharkov, where she received her art education at the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts, specializing in design.

Dasha creates aesthetic and conceptual works of art in drawing, sculpture, collage, and photography that speak to the viewer about the eternal – love and life in the infinite space of the Universe.

Dasha’s artworks can be found in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Australia and throughout Europe (England, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece)

Artist statemant

It all begins with Love. My art explores the order of the world, Life as a result, and Love as the primary element – the core according to the formula: Love = Unified Creative Energy of Life = God = Universe = Nature = Human. ( In God, I understand the supreme principle, universal across all religious denominations.)

The key pillars of my creativity emerge from the phenomena of the unconscious, allegorical expression, and romanticism as heralds of art.

At its core, my modernist art is a journey toward knowledge, a better world, mutual understanding, and essence. In the contemporary metamodern context, such a manifestation is a return to what is accessible to humanity – a unified truth.

I adhere to the principle of reduction, moving from the essential to the secondary. In painting, I have forsaken realism in favor of abstraction, and then color in favor of a two-component image, where black and white become the essence, the quintessence representing my way of perceiving the duality of the world.

I create abstract expressionism with an ink pen on paper. There is no room for randomness or arbitrary excess. The pen and paper allow me to be in direct contact with the Unified Creative Energy of Life and express deep, complex, multi-component artistic messages in a precise, fast, flexible manner with maximum detail and freedom.

In addition to graphics, I create sculptures, collages, and photography, which enable me to work with surfaces and volumes and give me the freedom to express ideas and place the necessary semantic accents.

Thus, my visual language, through symbols, constructs a cosmogony, immersing the viewer in the artistic space of love, where they come to the center of themselves and to God.

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EDUCATION

 

2023   Online Art Communication School, Institute of the Mediterranean Culture, Greece

2020   Painter-Decorator and Architecture Glass and Metal Technical Program, Toronto, ON, Canada

2005   Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communications Design, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Hkarkiv, Ukraine

2001   Classical course in painting and drawing at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine 

EXHIBITIONS

2024   Connections, HMVC Gallery New York, Online Group Show

2024   Girl Power!, HMVC Gallery New York, Online Group Show

2023   Art for Ukraine, Canvas Art Bar, Toronto, ON, Canada

2019   Erotic Art, Erotic Sex Show, Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

2019   Art for Ukraine, Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada

2016   SHE Project, ABC Charity, Casa Loma, Toronto, ON, Canada

2015   National Women’s Show, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

2015   Introducing: Dasha Klymenko ( Two-Person Exhibition with Jing Huang), L.A. Pai Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2013   Orchid Show, Toronto Botanical Garden, Toronto, ON, Canada

2013   Orchid Show, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, ON, Canada

2013   Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

AWARDS

2024   Finalist Award, International Online Art Competition, Teravarna Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2017   Honorable Mention, Monochrome Award – Online International black and white photography contest

2013   2-nd and 3-d place, Orchid Art Show, Southern Ontario Orchid Society, Toronto Botanical Garden, Toronto, ON, Canada

2013   Special Recognition Award, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery