Tivadar Boté’s large-scale acrylic paintings are like excavations. Canvases are layered with washes of translucent paint and finished with bold brushstrokes and deep pools of colour. The work is both lyrical and dramatic and expresses the artist’s joy of painting.
Hiromi Series: This is a new series of works based on further developing my approach
to color surfaces and reflections. Throughout the process of spreading and layering
color mixtures, I have developed an interest in wave movement and ocean surfaces.
The characteristics of wave structure (crest and trough) has opened up the experience of observing light in the context of abstracted forms and color movements.
These explorations of color fluctuations and visual propagations provide
opportunities to fully appreciate, as a painter, the phenomenon of light
dispersion and refraction on the ocean's surface.
Tivadar Bote 2008
Education:
1997 - Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Visual Communications (B.F.A).
1992 - Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Diploma in Visual Arts (with distinction)
1980 - University of Calgary, Alberta, Secondary (B.Ed Art Major).
Professional:
95/04 - Sessional Instructor : Alberta College of Art & Design Calgary, Alberta
92/04 - Digital Illustrator : Freelance illustration works for Canadian and US clients ; Canada Winter Games, Saturday Night Mag., Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Oxygen Design, Financial Times, Silvertip Resort, Globe and Mail, Roots Airline, Royal Bank, Tory Bank, Visa, Toronto Film Festival, Business Week Mag., Psychology Today, Nike USA, Philip Morris, AstralWerks Records, Getty Images, Anspach/Grossman/Portugal, SensetiveIn4mation, Carrier INC., Coca-Cola USA., New York Opera, Sports Illustrated, Safeway USA, Oxford Press.
1986 - ESL Instructor (English as a Second Language) : English instruction for established Japanese/American Corporations (Sumitomo, Dupont, Fuji Bank). The International Management Institute, Tokyo, Japan, prepares and offers set ESL curriculums and programs in the business related sector.
1985 - Gallery Assistant : Service and assistance to the Centre Eye Gallery, Calgary, Alberta. Duties entailed installation of photographic exhibitions; display; maintenance of resource centre; poster design co-ordinating and preparation of a touring exhibition of Canadian photography.
1982 - Substitute Teacher : Fine arts and Humanities teacher for the Calgary Catholic School Board, and The Calgary Public School Board, Calgary, Alberta.
Solo Exhibitions:
2006 - Herringer Kiss Gallery, Painting exhibition, "Close Quarters", Calgary, Alberta
2004 - Herringer Kiss Gallery, Painting exhibition, "Auras", Calgary, Alberta
2003 - Herringer Kiss Gallery, Painting exhibition, "Meditative Works", Calgary, Alberta
1990 - Resting Place Painting exhibition, Marion Nicoll Gallery, ACAD, Calgary, Alberta.
Group Exhibitions:
2005 - Herringer Kiss Gallery, "HK Summer 05", Calgary, AB
2002 - Faculty Show, (Painting) Illingworth Kerr Gallery, ACAD Calgary, Alberta
2001 - Faculty Show, (Painting) Illingworth Kerr Gallery, ACAD Calgary, Alberta
2000 - Faculty Show, (Painting) Illingworth Kerr Gallery, ACAD Calgary, Alberta
1991 - Hope and Fear Design Show, Calgary Municipal Building Calgary, Alberta
1984 - Series of Paintings, Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta.
1984 - Calgary Photography at the Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1984 - Images at the Centre Eye Photographic Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
1984 - Young Alberta Artists, Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
1983 - Five Introductions Centre Eye Photography Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Grants and Awards:
1993 - Bronze Medal in the 1993 CAPIC National Awards Show, Toronto.
1991 - Steve Vadnai Memorial Endowment Fund
1990 - Henry Clinton Scholarship
1990 - Visual Arts Study Grant, Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism
Collections:
ALBERTA ART FOUNDATION, ALBERTA, CANADA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN ALBERTA
