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Mindscapes – by Jónína Björg Helgadóttir
October 13, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
On October 13th at 6:30pm, Icelandic artist Jónína Björg Helgadóttir will open an exhibition in Gallery1313, on 1313 Queen Street West in Toronto. It will be a fun evening with colourful art, live music and light refreshments. The exhibition is a solo show, but with a special guest piece by local artist Reynir Saem.
Jónína Björg is a visual artist from Akureyri, Iceland, whose work is primarily oil paintings and printmaking with linocuts. The work often displays women in almost surreal surroundings that Jónína describes as their subconscious. “I try not to think too much about what should go on the canvas or in the sketches. That way, when I look over a body of work that is finished and see endless circles, certain colours repeated and familiar expressions on the women’s faces, I can see a red thread throughout, I can see what my subconscious has been telling me and what has been occupying my mind.”
In Akureyri, Jónína’s studio is in the oldest house in town, the beautiful Laxdalshús. There she and her husband, Magnús Jón Magnússon, also run a Pop up restaurant called Majó, filled with Jónína’s artwork. “It’s something that we have wanted to do for a long time, to combine our passions for art, food, meeting people and telling stories. My husband is a teacher and I’m an artist, so this is something that we do on the side and love every single moment of.” Jónína also went to art school in Akureyri and graduated from the fine arts department in 2015. Since then she has had six solo exhibitions, participated in many group exhibitions, opened an artist-run gallery with the group Kaktus and been project manager for an art project in Akureyri running for several years. This exhibition in Gallery1313, called Mindscapes, will be her 7th solo exhibition.
Mindscapes – by Jónína Björg Helgadóttir
Gallery 1313
1313 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Oct.12th – Oct. 23rd
Open Wed-Sat 1-5pm, Sun 1-4pm
Opening reception Oct. 13th, 6:30pm – 9:39pm
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