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Originally from Chicago, Illinois, multi-disciplinary contemporary artist Evelyna Helmer lives and works in Australia, but frequently works out of studios in both Florida and Chicago. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, as well as post-graduate certificates in Photography, Fine Art and Horticulture. Her strong academic background in art and art history profoundly influences her work, and includes a respect for archival techniques and materials. In her own words, “Its only when you really understand a material that you can exploit all its qualities. Currently, with imposed isolation, I find I have a freedom to be more playful, combining mediums in experimentation.” Helmer works with a variety of high quality materials, including fine oil paints and Belgian linen canvases. Through the process of collecting, assembling, sculpting and and painting, Helmer’s broad range of works contain a surreal visual language in which symbols, icons and familiarity are redirected into a tense strangeness. Her work bears recognizable figurative elements draw, which are intended to draw the viewer into the work and bridging a sense of connectivity. Heightened colors, skewed perspective and exaggerated scale accompany sharp, poetic elements, through which she attempts to disrupt and reinterpret the meanings of the objects represented. Fusing narrative modes including poetry, literature, film, music and collage, Helmer attempts to recalibrate reality into unsettling destinations, allowing the familiar and the arcane to converge.
V I E W E V E LY N A H E L M E R O N A G O R A G A L L E RY
Meeting the world, among memories, dreams and traces abandoned. Silent frames that tell forgotten stories, unveiling secrets and memories lost, all in the suspense of current world events. Through a process of collecting, assembling and composing, inventing a new visual language redirected into a strange tension. During the making of Collage, the artist meets the unexpected. What happens by chance, and being inspired by that unconscious act. In the meta material, creating Oil Paintings that subvert a rational vision in favour of finding image and beauty in the unexpected, disregarded and unconventional. Technically conflating historical painting techniques and gestural handling of paint, with contemporary backgrounds in spray paint and ink. Re-ordering the world, and building poetics on accidents and unlikely pairings. Giving voice to our isolation, at the same time reserving the right to fantasize on historical themes. Aiming to unearth feelings of vulnerability, frustration or desire while drawing on ideas of human experience and ideas of collective unconscious. Being open to the unknown, a surrealist goal to liberate thought and language from oppressive boundaries. Asking the question, do we have the capacity to shift or are we locked into one form, old ways of thinking and seeing? Paradoxical ideas, orientated on current events, nature, places of nonthinking. Deconstructing memories and ideas of the body in a catalogue of half stories that can be read but not explained. Images do not define but ask questions themselves. Puzzles of body, form and context to create a tension of the hunted. Ideas of place, space and multi-layered narratives. Theatre of human joy and pain.
Woman with Octopus, 2020 Oil & Spray Paint on Fine Linen 36” x 30” $ 4 0 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Woman Leaving, 2020 Oil & Spray Paint with Glitter on Fine Linen 36” x 30” $ 4 0 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Woman Dreaming, 2020 Oil & Spray Paint with Glitter on Fine Linen 36” x 30” $ 4 0 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 33 - Woman with Rose, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Man with Feathers, 2020 Oil & Spray Paint, Hand Cut Found Images on Clear Primed Fine Linen 36” x 30” $ 4 0 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Man with Orchids, 2020 Oil & Spray Paint with Glitter on Fine Linen 36” x 30” $ 4 0 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 53 - Man with Feathers, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 20” x 24” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 16 - Woman Leaving, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 21 - Woman Dreaming, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 3 - Owl Mother, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 1 - Woman with Octopus, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 7 - Sweater, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 18 - Woman with Hoops and Jello, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 20” x 24” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 10 - Ambiguous Loss, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 55 - Man with Orchids, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 41 - Sick Rose, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 24” x 20” $ 1 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
Dream Rooms no. 35 - The Porch, 2020 Collage & Mixed Media on Paper 20” x 24”
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