Sari Grove
Sari Grove: a self-employed visual artist... (pic shows me July 17, 2011 after I cut all my hair off)
Artist Statement:
I like to wait until something significant happens...I have time, & I don’t really like to create unless there is a good reason, something needs to be
remembered, a lesson needs to be taught, someone needs to be venerated...
Purpose(which is different from meaning), is a new slant that I have added to my skillset... The sculpture of the Trumpeter Swan is not
only beautiful but it will attract real swans to a pond & detract predators...
I also care deeply about process, which means that how something is created is integral to the finished work of art...So in my painting
“Tempesta” (‘stormy’), I hand pulled the linen & hammered in black steel carpet tacks along the back & hammered copper tacks along the edges for
support & what I didn’t do was use a staple gun with staples, which really changes the way you touch the wood stretchers...
This winter I wove giant nests out of Sisal rope, to try to make a nicer place for the swans to sit on instead of sitting on the ice...Trying to get
approvals from the city to put the nests out led me to the sculpture, which seemed to follow as a nesting site signifier...My path has moved to the 3
dimensional, & into larger scale public projects...I sense my fishbowl expanding...
Mentors:
via artist.conspiracy, Art Business Coach, Alyson Stanfield (I also put this here to help other artists if they need some coaching...)
Selected Commercial Galleries & Alternative Venues:
(I like to work with a gallery director just one at a time, & I put all of my energies into that, & make that great, & if the location is beautiful & the people are nice & the
art makes you inhale deeply because it is so good, then it is a success, & I don’t really
care that much about the money part, but it seems to be better for some reason because I don’t care...)
2011 Bluffs Gallery, Scarborough (this gallery overlooks the Bluffs, which are cliffs on
Lake Ontario- I think interesting locations are so much a part of the viewing experience)! Curator: a lady named Susan Dimitrakopolous
2010 National Mailbox, Yorkville (an experiment in converting web viewers to bricks & mortar) Owner: Don Tannahill
2009 Water Lily, Davisville (Water Lily was a health supplement place with some eco-art showing as well) Director: an exotic creature from an India lineage family in
Africa named Usha Makan 2008 Kohl Gallery of Arts, Eglinton Director: Gary Kohl who was an art teacher at
Toronto schools 2007 Scollard Street Gallery, Yorkville, Grand Opening of Gallery Director: Serge
Chriqui who came from running a wood flooring business 2006 Yorkville Gallery, Yorkville Director: Chun Chen an artist with a sister who
owns real estate & a Chinese sensibility 2005 Lanes Gallery, Hazelton Lanes (Lanes gallery had gorgeous Persian carpets & I
had all their giant window space looking out from Hazelton lanes mall) Director: Bahman...
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Sari Grove: a self-employed visual artist... (pic shows me July 17, 2011 after I cut all my hair off)
Artist Statement:
I like to wait until something significant happens...I have time, & I don’t really like to create unless there is a good reason, something needs to be
remembered, a lesson needs to be taught, someone needs to be venerated...
Purpose(which is different from meaning), is a new slant that I have added to my skillset... The sculpture of the Trumpeter Swan is not
only beautiful but it will attract real swans to a pond & detract predators...
I also care deeply about process, which means that how something is created is integral to the finished work of art...So in my painting
“Tempesta” (‘stormy’), I hand pulled the linen & hammered in black steel carpet tacks along the back & hammered copper tacks along the edges for
support & what I didn’t do was use a staple gun with staples, which really changes the way you touch the wood stretchers...
This winter I wove giant nests out of Sisal rope, to try to make a nicer place for the swans to sit on instead of sitting on the ice...Trying to get
approvals from the city to put the nests out led me to the sculpture, which seemed to follow as a nesting site signifier...My path has moved to the 3
dimensional, & into larger scale public projects...I sense my fishbowl expanding...
Mentors:
via artist.conspiracy, Art Business Coach, Alyson Stanfield (I also put this here to help other artists if they need some coaching...)
Selected Commercial Galleries & Alternative Venues:
(I like to work with a gallery director just one at a time, & I put all of my energies into that, & make that great, & if the location is beautiful & the people are nice & the
art makes you inhale deeply because it is so good, then it is a success, & I don’t really
care that much about the money part, but it seems to be better for some reason because I don’t care...)
2011 Bluffs Gallery, Scarborough (this gallery overlooks the Bluffs, which are cliffs on
Lake Ontario- I think interesting locations are so much a part of the viewing experience)! Curator: a lady named Susan Dimitrakopolous
2010 National Mailbox, Yorkville (an experiment in converting web viewers to bricks & mortar) Owner: Don Tannahill
2009 Water Lily, Davisville (Water Lily was a health supplement place with some eco-art showing as well) Director: an exotic creature from an India lineage family in
Africa named Usha Makan 2008 Kohl Gallery of Arts, Eglinton Director: Gary Kohl who was an art teacher at
Toronto schools 2007 Scollard Street Gallery, Yorkville, Grand Opening of Gallery Director: Serge
Chriqui who came from running a wood flooring business 2006 Yorkville Gallery, Yorkville Director: Chun Chen an artist with a sister who
owns real estate & a Chinese sensibility 2005 Lanes Gallery, Hazelton Lanes (Lanes gallery had gorgeous Persian carpets & I
had all their giant window space looking out from Hazelton lanes mall) Director: Bahman...
- Nationality: CANADA
- Date of birth : 1966
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- Groups: Contemporary Canadian Artists
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Talking to myself...an interview...Sari Grove lately...2011-ish...
Another imaginary interview with myself...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio by Joe Fig...In fact, I had wanted to do this type of thing, but conveniently, I found another artist who had beat me to the punch, who also conveniently had the questions on her blog...
2010/11/inside-painters-studio.html Here is the blog where I lifted the original questions from...
When did you consider yourself a professional artist, and when were you able to dedicate yourself full-time to that pursuit?
The word professional to me always meant when you first take money for your work...In 1993, I sold my first painting...This was after 4 years of working on my painting in a studio after graduating from university...I was always full time after university...
How long have you been in this studio?
I consider the world my studio...I have been in this world technically for 44 years now...(I write technically, because I did arrive with alot of skills & tastes written into my DNA from my parents...)
Has the studio location influenced you?
Well...The world I live in now is bounded a bit by where I live, since I tend to circle my home...Yorkville area, Toronto, is a traditional stomping ground for bohemians, so, no matter how kooky I get, there are always kookier people nearby...Which is good in many ways, although, I do enjoy being unique & it is hard to stand out if you are a spotted zebra if you live in the midst of a herd of spotted zebras...
Please describe a typical day, being as specific as possible. For example: What time do you get up? When do you come to the studio? Do you have specific clothing to change into?
I try to wake up by the crack of noon...My husband, Joseph Grove, also an artist, is a total insomniac who barely seems to sleep at night at all...(I'm not sure actually)...I, am a sleep-a-holic, & even the slightest disturbance in my REM sleep screws me up for days...I can't create if I am feeling wiry or tense, the work just doesn't work if I try...So to make up for my off & on sleep pattern at night, I make every effort to sleep in as long as possible...Once I am awake, then I am highly productive & tend to work at a furious intensity...I am like fire when I work at something...But I don't set a schedule...Schedules make me tense...I learned how to cut my own hair just to avoid the commitment of an appointment...I spend much of my creative process just stalking my subject...My work right now is about swans...So, I might be down at Bluffer's park hand feeding Trumpeter Swans a couple of times a week for half a year...You really have to know your subject to do good work...My husband is a big walker & he makes me walk miles & miles & miles with him...I say makes me because his pace is faster than mine & it is a bit like having a personal trainer...Walking is how I decide on a new subject...I am addicted to the gamma rays emitting from our desktop Mac computer-especially since we live in a cold mostly dark climate...So I will surf the internet reading artist blogs art coach blogs art gallery websites Facebook Twitter really almost anything since I Love to read & this is all so free- I do this on really cold days...I have a hobby...Medicine...I am very good at bridging between art & medicine, so my hobby is to find cures for diseases...Especially based on need...If I meet someone with a disease, someone I like, I will spend a huge amount of time researching their problem & trying to fix it...
My tops are designed by Katydid & bought from ...My all stretch Lee jeans were 23 dollars at a Walmart...(please don't tell anyone)...I wear the best running shoes I can find on this planet...Sometimes I run in them...
Do you listen to music, the radio, or TV when you work? If so what, and does it affect your work?
No...Music makes me blind...So I only listen in the bathtub where you can find me much of the time...
What kind of paints do you use?
Kama walnut oil paint from Montreal...Walnuts are tree nuts, which are not necessarily a problem for peanut allergy people, since peanuts are ground nuts...Linseed otherwise known as flaxseed, grows in the ground, so that can be more of a problem for peanut allergy people than walnut paints...Betcha didn't know that!
Do you have any special devices or tools that are unique to your creative process?
Painting knives from Italy with squishy handles...()
Are there specific items that have significant meaning to you?
My dream machine alarm clock with radio from my McGill days, circa 1989, bought on an airplane with my mum...(lasted this long, because I don't use alarms, of course...) It tells me the time & has a good radio...
Do you work on one project at a time or several?
One at a time...
When you are contemplating your work, where and how do you sit or stand?
Ideally I would be lying down...I think better lying down...But this is not an ideal world...I used to have a bed in my studio...Hmmm...
How often do you clean your studio, and does it affect your work?
After each project I throw everything out...Each work also means all brand new stuff...Keeps it fresh...
How do you come up with titles?
The wind blows them in usually...
Do you have assistants?
Two intact bengal lady cats named Jadzia & B'Elanna who are an endless source of mischief & laughter...
Did you ever work for another artist, and if so, did that have any effect on the way you work?
No, but my grandfather & great-uncle were sports photographers...Visit The Hockey Hall of Fame, Turofsky Collection, or online ...
(here is a bit about Sari Grove's grandfather & great uncle, Lou & Nat Turofsky...(from the Hockey Hall of Fame website)...
Turofsky Photo Collection
The Turofsky Collection is the world's single largest collection of hockey photographs. Noted brothers, Nat and Lou Turofsky, began taking photos in 1907 and quickly established themselves as the premier photographers in the sporting world. Their spectacular and diverse hockey photographs truly captured the essence of the game, from the stars to the journeymen, from the glamourous arenas to the dank training facilities, all of which chronicle the Original Six era.
Imperial Oil Ltd purchased the collection on December 2, 1981 for $15,000. Imperial then donated the collection of 900 glass-plate negatives and 21,000 cellulose negatives to the Hockey Hall of Fame where they are now archivally preserved. Twenty-seven of these images have been selected for the exhibit. )
I inherited an ability to catch motion- I don't need my subject to be still to catch it...
Do you have a motto or creed that as an artist you live by?
That license plate motto "Live free or die"...
What advice would you give a young artist that is just starting out?
Don't work in quantity...Do less work, very well...One great piece is worth 10 good ones...Don't let dealers con you into producing quantity...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, New York. 2009. Joe Fig...
originally Posted by GroveCanada.fm at Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:18 PM
Categories: uncategorized
Talking to myself...an interview...Sari Grove lately...2011-ish...
Another imaginary interview with myself...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio by Joe Fig...In fact, I had wanted to do this type of thing, but conveniently, I found another artist who had beat me to the punch, who also conveniently had the questions on her blog...
2010/11/inside-painters-studio.html Here is the blog where I lifted the original questions from...
When did you consider yourself a professional artist, and when were you able to dedicate yourself full-time to that pursuit?
The word professional to me always meant when you first take money for your work...In 1993, I sold my first painting...This was after 4 years of working on my painting in a studio after graduating from university...I was always full time after university...
How long have you been in this studio?
I consider the world my studio...I have been in this world technically for 44 years now...(I write technically, because I did arrive with alot of skills & tastes written into my DNA from my parents...)
Has the studio location influenced you?
Well...The world I live in now is bounded a bit by where I live, since I tend to circle my home...Yorkville area, Toronto, is a traditional stomping ground for bohemians, so, no matter how kooky I get, there are always kookier people nearby...Which is good in many ways, although, I do enjoy being unique & it is hard to stand out if you are a spotted zebra if you live in the midst of a herd of spotted zebras...
Please describe a typical day, being as specific as possible. For example: What time do you get up? When do you come to the studio? Do you have specific clothing to change into?
I try to wake up by the crack of noon...My husband, Joseph Grove, also an artist, is a total insomniac who barely seems to sleep at night at all...(I'm not sure actually)...I, am a sleep-a-holic, & even the slightest disturbance in my REM sleep screws me up for days...I can't create if I am feeling wiry or tense, the work just doesn't work if I try...So to make up for my off & on sleep pattern at night, I make every effort to sleep in as long as possible...Once I am awake, then I am highly productive & tend to work at a furious intensity...I am like fire when I work at something...But I don't set a schedule...Schedules make me tense...I learned how to cut my own hair just to avoid the commitment of an appointment...I spend much of my creative process just stalking my subject...My work right now is about swans...So, I might be down at Bluffer's park hand feeding Trumpeter Swans a couple of times a week for half a year...You really have to know your subject to do good work...My husband is a big walker & he makes me walk miles & miles & miles with him...I say makes me because his pace is faster than mine & it is a bit like having a personal trainer...Walking is how I decide on a new subject...I am addicted to the gamma rays emitting from our desktop Mac computer-especially since we live in a cold mostly dark climate...So I will surf the internet reading artist blogs art coach blogs art gallery websites Facebook Twitter really almost anything since I Love to read & this is all so free- I do this on really cold days...I have a hobby...Medicine...I am very good at bridging between art & medicine, so my hobby is to find cures for diseases...Especially based on need...If I meet someone with a disease, someone I like, I will spend a huge amount of time researching their problem & trying to fix it...
My tops are designed by Katydid & bought from ...My all stretch Lee jeans were 23 dollars at a Walmart...(please don't tell anyone)...I wear the best running shoes I can find on this planet...Sometimes I run in them...
Do you listen to music, the radio, or TV when you work? If so what, and does it affect your work?
No...Music makes me blind...So I only listen in the bathtub where you can find me much of the time...
What kind of paints do you use?
Kama walnut oil paint from Montreal...Walnuts are tree nuts, which are not necessarily a problem for peanut allergy people, since peanuts are ground nuts...Linseed otherwise known as flaxseed, grows in the ground, so that can be more of a problem for peanut allergy people than walnut paints...Betcha didn't know that!
Do you have any special devices or tools that are unique to your creative process?
Painting knives from Italy with squishy handles...()
Are there specific items that have significant meaning to you?
My dream machine alarm clock with radio from my McGill days, circa 1989, bought on an airplane with my mum...(lasted this long, because I don't use alarms, of course...) It tells me the time & has a good radio...
Do you work on one project at a time or several?
One at a time...
When you are contemplating your work, where and how do you sit or stand?
Ideally I would be lying down...I think better lying down...But this is not an ideal world...I used to have a bed in my studio...Hmmm...
How often do you clean your studio, and does it affect your work?
After each project I throw everything out...Each work also means all brand new stuff...Keeps it fresh...
How do you come up with titles?
The wind blows them in usually...
Do you have assistants?
Two intact bengal lady cats named Jadzia & B'Elanna who are an endless source of mischief & laughter...
Did you ever work for another artist, and if so, did that have any effect on the way you work?
No, but my grandfather & great-uncle were sports photographers...Visit The Hockey Hall of Fame, Turofsky Collection, or online ...
(here is a bit about Sari Grove's grandfather & great uncle, Lou & Nat Turofsky...(from the Hockey Hall of Fame website)...
Turofsky Photo Collection
The Turofsky Collection is the world's single largest collection of hockey photographs. Noted brothers, Nat and Lou Turofsky, began taking photos in 1907 and quickly established themselves as the premier photographers in the sporting world. Their spectacular and diverse hockey photographs truly captured the essence of the game, from the stars to the journeymen, from the glamourous arenas to the dank training facilities, all of which chronicle the Original Six era.
Imperial Oil Ltd purchased the collection on December 2, 1981 for $15,000. Imperial then donated the collection of 900 glass-plate negatives and 21,000 cellulose negatives to the Hockey Hall of Fame where they are now archivally preserved. Twenty-seven of these images have been selected for the exhibit. )
I inherited an ability to catch motion- I don't need my subject to be still to catch it...
Do you have a motto or creed that as an artist you live by?
That license plate motto "Live free or die"...
What advice would you give a young artist that is just starting out?
Don't work in quantity...Do less work, very well...One great piece is worth 10 good ones...Don't let dealers con you into producing quantity...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, New York. 2009. Joe Fig...
originally Posted by GroveCanada.fm at Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:18 PM
Categories: uncategorized
Talking to myself...an interview...Sari Grove lately...2011-ish...
Another imaginary interview with myself...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio by Joe Fig...In fact, I had wanted to do this type of thing, but conveniently, I found another artist who had beat me to the punch, who also conveniently had the questions on her blog...
2010/11/inside-painters-studio.html Here is the blog where I lifted the original questions from...
When did you consider yourself a professional artist, and when were you able to dedicate yourself full-time to that pursuit?
The word professional to me always meant when you first take money for your work...In 1993, I sold my first painting...This was after 4 years of working on my painting in a studio after graduating from university...I was always full time after university...
How long have you been in this studio?
I consider the world my studio...I have been in this world technically for 44 years now...(I write technically, because I did arrive with alot of skills & tastes written into my DNA from my parents...)
Has the studio location influenced you?
Well...The world I live in now is bounded a bit by where I live, since I tend to circle my home...Yorkville area, Toronto, is a traditional stomping ground for bohemians, so, no matter how kooky I get, there are always kookier people nearby...Which is good in many ways, although, I do enjoy being unique & it is hard to stand out if you are a spotted zebra if you live in the midst of a herd of spotted zebras...
Please describe a typical day, being as specific as possible. For example: What time do you get up? When do you come to the studio? Do you have specific clothing to change into?
I try to wake up by the crack of noon...My husband, Joseph Grove, also an artist, is a total insomniac who barely seems to sleep at night at all...(I'm not sure actually)...I, am a sleep-a-holic, & even the slightest disturbance in my REM sleep screws me up for days...I can't create if I am feeling wiry or tense, the work just doesn't work if I try...So to make up for my off & on sleep pattern at night, I make every effort to sleep in as long as possible...Once I am awake, then I am highly productive & tend to work at a furious intensity...I am like fire when I work at something...But I don't set a schedule...Schedules make me tense...I learned how to cut my own hair just to avoid the commitment of an appointment...I spend much of my creative process just stalking my subject...My work right now is about swans...So, I might be down at Bluffer's park hand feeding Trumpeter Swans a couple of times a week for half a year...You really have to know your subject to do good work...My husband is a big walker & he makes me walk miles & miles & miles with him...I say makes me because his pace is faster than mine & it is a bit like having a personal trainer...Walking is how I decide on a new subject...I am addicted to the gamma rays emitting from our desktop Mac computer-especially since we live in a cold mostly dark climate...So I will surf the internet reading artist blogs art coach blogs art gallery websites Facebook Twitter really almost anything since I Love to read & this is all so free- I do this on really cold days...I have a hobby...Medicine...I am very good at bridging between art & medicine, so my hobby is to find cures for diseases...Especially based on need...If I meet someone with a disease, someone I like, I will spend a huge amount of time researching their problem & trying to fix it...
My tops are designed by Katydid & bought from ...My all stretch Lee jeans were 23 dollars at a Walmart...(please don't tell anyone)...I wear the best running shoes I can find on this planet...Sometimes I run in them...
Do you listen to music, the radio, or TV when you work? If so what, and does it affect your work?
No...Music makes me blind...So I only listen in the bathtub where you can find me much of the time...
What kind of paints do you use?
Kama walnut oil paint from Montreal...Walnuts are tree nuts, which are not necessarily a problem for peanut allergy people, since peanuts are ground nuts...Linseed otherwise known as flaxseed, grows in the ground, so that can be more of a problem for peanut allergy people than walnut paints...Betcha didn't know that!
Do you have any special devices or tools that are unique to your creative process?
Painting knives from Italy with squishy handles...()
Are there specific items that have significant meaning to you?
My dream machine alarm clock with radio from my McGill days, circa 1989, bought on an airplane with my mum...(lasted this long, because I don't use alarms, of course...) It tells me the time & has a good radio...
Do you work on one project at a time or several?
One at a time...
When you are contemplating your work, where and how do you sit or stand?
Ideally I would be lying down...I think better lying down...But this is not an ideal world...I used to have a bed in my studio...Hmmm...
How often do you clean your studio, and does it affect your work?
After each project I throw everything out...Each work also means all brand new stuff...Keeps it fresh...
How do you come up with titles?
The wind blows them in usually...
Do you have assistants?
Two intact bengal lady cats named Jadzia & B'Elanna who are an endless source of mischief & laughter...
Did you ever work for another artist, and if so, did that have any effect on the way you work?
No, but my grandfather & great-uncle were sports photographers...Visit The Hockey Hall of Fame, Turofsky Collection, or online ...
(here is a bit about Sari Grove's grandfather & great uncle, Lou & Nat Turofsky...(from the Hockey Hall of Fame website)...
Turofsky Photo Collection
The Turofsky Collection is the world's single largest collection of hockey photographs. Noted brothers, Nat and Lou Turofsky, began taking photos in 1907 and quickly established themselves as the premier photographers in the sporting world. Their spectacular and diverse hockey photographs truly captured the essence of the game, from the stars to the journeymen, from the glamourous arenas to the dank training facilities, all of which chronicle the Original Six era.
Imperial Oil Ltd purchased the collection on December 2, 1981 for $15,000. Imperial then donated the collection of 900 glass-plate negatives and 21,000 cellulose negatives to the Hockey Hall of Fame where they are now archivally preserved. Twenty-seven of these images have been selected for the exhibit. )
I inherited an ability to catch motion- I don't need my subject to be still to catch it...
Do you have a motto or creed that as an artist you live by?
That license plate motto "Live free or die"...
What advice would you give a young artist that is just starting out?
Don't work in quantity...Do less work, very well...One great piece is worth 10 good ones...Don't let dealers con you into producing quantity...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, New York. 2009. Joe Fig...
originally Posted by GroveCanada.fm at Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:18 PM
Categories: uncategorized
Talking to myself...an interview...Sari Grove lately...2011-ish...
Another imaginary interview with myself...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio by Joe Fig...In fact, I had wanted to do this type of thing, but conveniently, I found another artist who had beat me to the punch, who also conveniently had the questions on her blog...
2010/11/inside-painters-studio.html Here is the blog where I lifted the original questions from...
When did you consider yourself a professional artist, and when were you able to dedicate yourself full-time to that pursuit?
The word professional to me always meant when you first take money for your work...In 1993, I sold my first painting...This was after 4 years of working on my painting in a studio after graduating from university...I was always full time after university...
How long have you been in this studio?
I consider the world my studio...I have been in this world technically for 44 years now...(I write technically, because I did arrive with alot of skills & tastes written into my DNA from my parents...)
Has the studio location influenced you?
Well...The world I live in now is bounded a bit by where I live, since I tend to circle my home...Yorkville area, Toronto, is a traditional stomping ground for bohemians, so, no matter how kooky I get, there are always kookier people nearby...Which is good in many ways, although, I do enjoy being unique & it is hard to stand out if you are a spotted zebra if you live in the midst of a herd of spotted zebras...
Please describe a typical day, being as specific as possible. For example: What time do you get up? When do you come to the studio? Do you have specific clothing to change into?
I try to wake up by the crack of noon...My husband, Joseph Grove, also an artist, is a total insomniac who barely seems to sleep at night at all...(I'm not sure actually)...I, am a sleep-a-holic, & even the slightest disturbance in my REM sleep screws me up for days...I can't create if I am feeling wiry or tense, the work just doesn't work if I try...So to make up for my off & on sleep pattern at night, I make every effort to sleep in as long as possible...Once I am awake, then I am highly productive & tend to work at a furious intensity...I am like fire when I work at something...But I don't set a schedule...Schedules make me tense...I learned how to cut my own hair just to avoid the commitment of an appointment...I spend much of my creative process just stalking my subject...My work right now is about swans...So, I might be down at Bluffer's park hand feeding Trumpeter Swans a couple of times a week for half a year...You really have to know your subject to do good work...My husband is a big walker & he makes me walk miles & miles & miles with him...I say makes me because his pace is faster than mine & it is a bit like having a personal trainer...Walking is how I decide on a new subject...I am addicted to the gamma rays emitting from our desktop Mac computer-especially since we live in a cold mostly dark climate...So I will surf the internet reading artist blogs art coach blogs art gallery websites Facebook Twitter really almost anything since I Love to read & this is all so free- I do this on really cold days...I have a hobby...Medicine...I am very good at bridging between art & medicine, so my hobby is to find cures for diseases...Especially based on need...If I meet someone with a disease, someone I like, I will spend a huge amount of time researching their problem & trying to fix it...
My tops are designed by Katydid & bought from ...My all stretch Lee jeans were 23 dollars at a Walmart...(please don't tell anyone)...I wear the best running shoes I can find on this planet...Sometimes I run in them...
Do you listen to music, the radio, or TV when you work? If so what, and does it affect your work?
No...Music makes me blind...So I only listen in the bathtub where you can find me much of the time...
What kind of paints do you use?
Kama walnut oil paint from Montreal...Walnuts are tree nuts, which are not necessarily a problem for peanut allergy people, since peanuts are ground nuts...Linseed otherwise known as flaxseed, grows in the ground, so that can be more of a problem for peanut allergy people than walnut paints...Betcha didn't know that!
Do you have any special devices or tools that are unique to your creative process?
Painting knives from Italy with squishy handles...()
Are there specific items that have significant meaning to you?
My dream machine alarm clock with radio from my McGill days, circa 1989, bought on an airplane with my mum...(lasted this long, because I don't use alarms, of course...) It tells me the time & has a good radio...
Do you work on one project at a time or several?
One at a time...
When you are contemplating your work, where and how do you sit or stand?
Ideally I would be lying down...I think better lying down...But this is not an ideal world...I used to have a bed in my studio...Hmmm...
How often do you clean your studio, and does it affect your work?
After each project I throw everything out...Each work also means all brand new stuff...Keeps it fresh...
How do you come up with titles?
The wind blows them in usually...
Do you have assistants?
Two intact bengal lady cats named Jadzia & B'Elanna who are an endless source of mischief & laughter...
Did you ever work for another artist, and if so, did that have any effect on the way you work?
No, but my grandfather & great-uncle were sports photographers...Visit The Hockey Hall of Fame, Turofsky Collection, or online ...
(here is a bit about Sari Grove's grandfather & great uncle, Lou & Nat Turofsky...(from the Hockey Hall of Fame website)...
Turofsky Photo Collection
The Turofsky Collection is the world's single largest collection of hockey photographs. Noted brothers, Nat and Lou Turofsky, began taking photos in 1907 and quickly established themselves as the premier photographers in the sporting world. Their spectacular and diverse hockey photographs truly captured the essence of the game, from the stars to the journeymen, from the glamourous arenas to the dank training facilities, all of which chronicle the Original Six era.
Imperial Oil Ltd purchased the collection on December 2, 1981 for $15,000. Imperial then donated the collection of 900 glass-plate negatives and 21,000 cellulose negatives to the Hockey Hall of Fame where they are now archivally preserved. Twenty-seven of these images have been selected for the exhibit. )
I inherited an ability to catch motion- I don't need my subject to be still to catch it...
Do you have a motto or creed that as an artist you live by?
That license plate motto "Live free or die"...
What advice would you give a young artist that is just starting out?
Don't work in quantity...Do less work, very well...One great piece is worth 10 good ones...Don't let dealers con you into producing quantity...
Questions stolen from Inside the Painter's Studio. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, New York. 2009. Joe Fig...
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A little bit of paint in your hair...
Sari Grove: a self-employed visual artist... (pic shows me July 17, 2011 after I cut all my hair off)
Artist Statement:
I like to wait until something significant happens...I have time, & I don’t really like to create unless there is a good reason, something needs to be
remembered, a lesson needs to be taught, someone needs to be venerated...
Purpose(which is different from meaning), is a new slant that I have added to my skillset... The sculpture of the Trumpeter Swan is not
only beautiful but it will attract real swans to a pond & detract predators...
I also care deeply about process, which means that how something is created is integral to the finished work of art...So in my painting
“Tempesta” (‘stormy’), I hand pulled the linen & hammered in black steel carpet tacks along the back & hammered copper tacks along the edges for
support & what I didn’t do was use a staple gun with staples, which really changes the way you touch the wood stretchers...
This winter I wove giant nests out of Sisal rope, to try to make a nicer place for the swans to sit on instead of sitting on the ice...Trying to get
approvals from the city to put the nests out led me to the sculpture, which seemed to follow as a nesting site signifier...My path has moved to the 3
dimensional, & into larger scale public projects...I sense my fishbowl expanding...
Mentors:
via artist.conspiracy, Art Business Coach, Alyson Stanfield (I also put this here to help other artists if they need some coaching...)
Selected Commercial Galleries & Alternative Venues:
(I like to work with a gallery director just one at a time, & I put all of my energies into that, & make that great, & if the location is beautiful & the people are nice & the
art makes you inhale deeply because it is so good, then it is a success, & I don’t really
care that much about the money part, but it seems to be better for some reason because I don’t care...)
2011 Bluffs Gallery, Scarborough (this gallery overlooks the Bluffs, which are cliffs on
Lake Ontario- I think interesting locations are so much a part of the viewing experience)! Curator: a lady named Susan Dimitrakopolous
2010 National Mailbox, Yorkville (an experiment in converting web viewers to bricks & mortar) Owner: Don Tannahill
2009 Water Lily, Davisville (Water Lily was a health supplement place with some eco-art showing as well) Director: an exotic creature from an India lineage family in
Africa named Usha Makan 2008 Kohl Gallery of Arts, Eglinton Director: Gary Kohl who was an art teacher at
Toronto schools 2007 Scollard Street Gallery, Yorkville, Grand Opening of Gallery Director: Serge
Chriqui who came from running a wood flooring business 2006 Yorkville Gallery, Yorkville Director: Chun Chen an artist with a sister who
owns real estate & a Chinese sensibility 2005 Lanes Gallery, Hazelton Lanes (Lanes gallery had gorgeous Persian carpets & I
had all their giant window space looking out from Hazelton lanes mall) Director: Bahman Fadaie-nia who had a deep knowledge of the art of carpetmaking
2004 Studio 99 Cafe & Gallery, Yorkville (Me & Joseph had all the walls here) Director: Warsame Boch who brought the flavours of Djibouti
2003 Art Canadiana Gallery, Bloor Street Directors: Sharon Norman & Ray Argyle with a corporate feel
2002 ArtistsDog Gallery, Montreal Director: Michael Cooper with ad agency savvy 2001 Original Papers Art Gallery, Prince Arthur Street ( I had a big solo show here)
Director: Tom Gottlieb who loved to eat & socialize (in the best way) 2000 ArtFocus Gallery, Toronto (Pat Fleisher who was an old pro in the art
business) 1999 The Redhead Gallery, Spadina (an artist run centre)
1998 Yorkville Fine Frame, Yorkville (Yorkville Fine Frame is in tony Yorkville on Bellair, it was a tremendous retail location, 2 different incarnations of owners newly
from Korea)
1997 Gebo Artworx, Queen street ( an artist hippy feel co-operative venture)
1996 Artalog Art Gallery, Castlefield Avenue North York (this gallery put art on computer & carried the computer to corporates-this was Before the internet existed! A
smart & nice person named Mark Buck) 1994-1995 Studio 2007, Sherbourne Street (my first studio, which I loved & had 2
solo shows in & the bakery downstairs made it all smell good) 1993 First sale of a work of art & so, became a “professional”...(Michael Lennon was
my first customer, & he works at Lorac Wine my mum’s company- pressure? nah, just a wise investor)
Educational Background:
University of Toronto
Humber College Harvard University
Ryerson PolytechnicalUniversity Atkinson College
1989 McGill University, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Sarah Lawrence College
1984 University of Toronto Schools (U.T.S.) High School Diploma 1979 The Toronto French School, lower school
Media, Books, etc.
Interviewed on a show called MediaTV on the CITYTV channel...(about computers & art-this was Before the internet!!!)
Interviewed on a local Toronto cable channel...(about chimpanzees rescued from aids testing facilities & making art)...
Published: The Talking Vegetable Garden, I did the illustrations for this book with Joseph’s help...
Giclees & other prints(I no longer do multiple prints): a long time ago I did 500 limited edition prints of an oil painting called Osmosis through Mahon Graphics in
Markham...Soon after that, a series of giclees prints through Altron Colour Imaging in New Brunswick(‘See Spot Run’ did the fine art photography for those)...
Related Online Documents for the more curious: *doc/59821986/The-Long-Curriculum-Vitae-Bio-Artist-
Statement-thingy-for-Sari-Grove-self-employed-visual-artist-my-apologies-to-the-already- bored a long version c.v, bio, statement...(13 pages)
*doc/55875773/Vitae-2011 just from post-2010 to the present... (June 19, 2011)
*doc/55473706/Swanne-Story sculpture...just a smidgen of history...
*doc/55420763/Karma a day in the life of an artist document... *doc/56017808/Joseph-May-22-2011 brief notes about Joseph
Grove, this is sparse)... pic:
Magnolia is a 36 by 48 by 1-3/4 inch oil on linen by Sari Grove from 2010, painted only with a knife, using Kama Pigments walnut oil paints, no turpentines, no rabbit
skin glue, no lead, no brushes, painted en plein air with some automatistes memories seeping through...(took me 6 months to do)...
The Bluffs Gallery
1859 Kingston Road, Scarborough, Ontario
M1N 1T3 phone 416-698-7322
Fax 416-698-7972 Sari Grove is now (as of Friday, May 13, 2011)
showing with Bluffs Gallery (go there now till July 31, 2011 to get a great deal on an original
Sari Grove oil on linen painting...(Blooming Lilies 24x36 inches is currently there on special!!!)
Take Danforth to Birchmount go south then turn east on Kingston road, look for the
Scarborough Arts Council sign on your right, pull into the driveway, park, the Bluffs Gallery is on the second floor, enter
from the front door to make it easier...(right on the lake
too!)
E W www.grovecanada.ca PH 416 924-9725 Sari Grove
National Gallery of Canada (through ArtMarketing on Bay St.)(Joseph & Sari Grove’s ‘Space Ships’ 30x40inch framed under plexiglass, watercolours gum arabic
watersoluble crayon doublethick illustration board)(Plus a varied collection from the “Marsh Series” works on 300lb. Arches paper in D.L.Stevenson acrylics Canadian,several works donated...(more than 5) Art Gallery of Ontario (through Art Gallery Store)(Osmosis) Sunnybrook Hospital Heart Centre (Silent Auction)(Jane’s Tree) Sunnybrook Hospital Oncology Centre(Figure Skater , Bald Eagles, Skeleton, oils 2x3ft) St. George’s Society (Indian Summer by Joseph Grove, 300lb Arches paper ,D.L.Stevenson acrylics, brush) “Marsh Series work”Sacre Coeur School (purchase at Silent Auction through teacher Hodo ) Rosedale Dental Clinic ( 2 22x30inch Canadian made acrylics on French paper) Mailboxes Etc. (Skiier, oils) U.P.S. store (through Chantal from Haiti , Birthday Cake oils) Lanes Gallery (Sous le Pont oils, & View -Daniel Smith metallic oils on wood panel cradled Yorkville Fine Frame (Cow 30x40 inch framed plexi. watercolours Schmincke gum arabic crayon, Fruit went to Laurie-L.LaB.aquapasto 30x40inch un- framed on doublethick architect board Curry’s)(now framed) Hudson’s Bay Company (through Design Academy student- possibly(was stolen) bronze of blowfish, Music 22x30inch acry. on paper framed plexi.) Helen... Toronto Ability School (Osmosis lim.ed.print Mahon Graphics Markham) Fraternal Order of Eagles (Osmosis 100 lim.ed.prints for charity M.D.) Adoption Council of Canada (works by Joseph Grove, extensive
E W www.grovecanada.ca PH 416 924-9725 Sari Grove
collection) large donation...
Aji Sai (Tsunami, oils) National Mailbox (fridge magnet design , Joseph & ‘Mary’ Grove) Sony Animation Studio (through Austin Grant Dusseldorf Hollywood Niger Freelance Animation Technician-Walkabout , Pangea 3x4 foot oil by Joseph Grove) Tilley Endurables (through Joshua Letterman , work on paper framed Marsh series) M.O.C.C.A. (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art when it was up in North York) full set of professional slides Marsh collection from 2000 Horwath Orenstein Chartered Accountants (completely abstract portrait of Joyce Rashid at garden party oils) Bochner Eye Institute (through gift to portrait Dr. Bernard J. Slatt at dentist , paper) Lorac Wine Inc. (through Carol Slatt , I won a ribbon oils 3x4 feet, Marsh framed plexi watercolours paper crayon watersoluble &/or oil pastel) Kerbel Communications (through gift Pointillism oils, Golden Dragon paper acr. ) Metro Canada Logistics (through gift Casa horse oils 2x3 ft.)) Information about artist Sari Grove...(& her husband, Joseph Grove too, who works with Sari on many projects...) LCBO (through employee purchase at discount Crow oils, experimental w. brush)) Gallery One (through Baycrest Rehabilitative centre silent auction purchase Osmosis) University of Toronto Schools (through design submission Maple
E W www.grovecanada.ca PH 416 924-9725 Sari Grove
Leaf digital image) Bridge- cold wax +oils on linen 24 x 36inches unframed went to Dena our neighbour...a teacher...at a local private catholic school...
“Murcielago” oils w. cold wax. framed in big black wood by Scollard Street Gallery , went to J.W.M. to support Durham Humane Society recorded: Jun 17, 2010
A newer C.V. for Sari Grove which starts in 2011...For those who didnʼt read the pre-2010 one already, um, too late...
Ok, you can read “Karma” at (new Bio script)
fullscreen/55420763?access_key=key-1tfts2kf6i17ackeqir
to get a slice of life Bio for Sari Grove...(a one day dip into a life lake...)
The next link “Swanne” (new Resume script)
fullscreen/55473706?access_key=key-2kvlj2gifa9dpz3h0vmz
will give you another dip into a resume, just some filler on some of the sculpture background that was neglected in the pre-2010 documentation...
*Hereʼs the new C.V. which starts in 2011: pithy quote in reference to that;(“Oh no I said too much, I havenʼt said enough, I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try...” lyric excerpt from Losing my Religion by R.E.M.) :)
Gallery: Bluffs Gallery, administrated by Scarborough Arts Shows: from Friday May 13, 2011 to July 31st, 2011 Sari Grove is showing “Bloominʼ Lilies” 24x26x1.5” oil on linen canvas in studio float frame, with Schmincke Mussini resin oil paints, painted with a knife only, no turpentines at all in the process, eco- dammar varnish from eco-house (does not use turpentine to dissolve the natural dammar), no animal hair brushes (well no brushes at all, but it is a point), sustainable wood stretcher bars made from the Phoenix tree (Paulownia wood which Jimmy Carter farms actually), no rabbit skin glue sizing at all (I donʼt use rabbits anywhere in my practice except to love them...), subject drawn & sketched from life with Sennelier oil pastels directly onto sized & primed linen from life (mum gave me Lilies for Valentineʼs day 2008, just in case my guy didnʼt (married to Joseph Grove, another artist...sigh)...), Colours were not obsessed upon as traveling away from realistic colouration is not a problem for me-in fact it makes me content that I allow for happy accidents...Price: You have to go in person to find out, but I assure you it is a very good special price ʻcause I think Bluffʼs gallery is cool...(& I know people are brokerama a bit right now)...
A newer C.V. for Sari Grove which starts in 2011...For those who didnʼt read the pre-2010 one already, um, too late...
Projects in progress: The Trumpeter Swan Sculpture is so that Trumpeter swans can feel welcome at Bluffers park Bay & also so their predators will back off a little bit...I started this project on Valentineʼs Day 2011...It isnʼt finished yet...ETA is, when it is... (commitment just gives me a stomachache...)
Sort of finished projects that I am not sure what I am going to do with: I designed 7 Artificial Trumpeter Swan nests & wove them all by myself...(Ok, Joseph provided moral encouragement)...Number 7 is really pretty good at 43 inches in diameter, 15 rolls of 1/4 inch Sisal rope, & woven on my hula hoop (custom made for me by Happy Hoopy Love on ebay.ca)...Spoke to Brian today at Parks & Recreation about the fact that their new groynes ruined the natural beach nesting habitat of the Trumpeters that were living there the past two years & also that 2 earlier nest prototypes got thrown out by Parks this winter...Someone suggested I contact the Ministry of Tourism & Culture, so
I probably will, I have already barked up Toronto Region Conservation Authority, Canadian Wildlife Services & a few other now newly annoyed peoples...(annoyed good though)...
You can find me online at or other places too, you know, the usual places you might find an artist...like everywhere...(except for digital red tape...I am a little allergic to red tape...Green is fine though...)
*Secret: I like to go once a week to feed the waterbirds wild bird seed...
A newer C.V. for Sari Grove which starts in 2011...For those who didnʼt read the pre-2010 one already, um, too late...
I have sort of a long history with sculpture...(three stories: 1967-68-ish,1993,2011); from Sari Grove (Mrs.)
My mom, my mum, took me to the “Y” when I was just a blonde lump...It was before I was 2-1/2, because I started real school at 2-1/2...
The “Y” was very very sophisticated in the clay business...They had giant old kilns that really worked & clay tables to work on with proper benches & big bags of clay, but like alot... The clay was the right colour brown & wet & the long table surface was wooden & could get dirty...
My mum just left me there with the much much older people, the adults, the heavyset woman who was already working on stuff that could be sold...Serious adult people...
I was there alot, at that clay department at the “Y”... Long enough, that whenever I try to sculpt something, my muscle memory kicks in & all those skills I learned as a blonde lump come back...
I carved alabaster with a hammer & chisel, well, you know, those various chisels that you use to carve stones with...I bought many large pieces of alabaster from Sculpture Supply Canada, & put them in the trunk of my Dadʼs Audi which he gave to me when it got old...I had planned to do a sculpture garden of body parts, for The Toronto Sculpture Garden...This was in 1993-1994 in my own studio called Studio 2007 at Sherbourne & south of Front in the purple & green building (you know the one)...
What happened was this: My first sculpture was ʻstands with a fistʼ... I had seen Dances with Wolves not that long ago & I thought I should start with something familiar...So I was doing a fist coming up from a foot...Just that... I had also seen Camille Claudel, & the foot idea seemed like an easy way to start...Ok so, this was the first time I had hammered & chiseled, carved into stone, alabaster...
So what happened...um...It was amazing...My hands, the hammer, the chisel, the alabaster...It all came together & it came out Exactly as I had seen it in my mind...exactly...perfect...I freaked out...I couldnʼt be so talented...So skilled...Something was happening...The alabaster...The alabaster was mimetic...The alabaster was alive...I started remembering my visit to Trois Pistoles Quebec- it was so so very cold there- could animals, like harp seals, could they have become frozen & turned into stone? Like alabaster? Could I be working with living tissue? This was the only explanation in my mind for how could, the sculpture, had turned out...It was a fist coming up from a foot...
Too realistic...I started polishing the piece with various grades of sandpaper...Bought a hand sander in hopes that the job might become easier...The alabaster dust was enough that my father the neuro-ophthalmologist would reprimand me for endangering my eyes...I already had a thing removed when I was 8 or 9, something that fell in while I was skiing on a hard snowing mountain...I started work on the next piece of alabaster...Again, mimetic...The whole: “Is this stone alive?” question came back even stronger...I threw all the unworked pieces into my car & returned them to Sculpture Supply Canada...Didnʼt say why at the time...Maybe I did...It was upsetting for me...
In 1999-ish, Canadian Artists Representation Federation Artistes Canadiens (CARFAC) needed a small sculpture for the tables at an event in the old movie theatre converted to banquet hall type thing just west of Yonge & Eglinton...It needed to be cheap & easy to understand...All the members of Carfac were asked to make a small thing, under 70-75 dollars-ish cost of materials... I made a man, muscular, out of plant flower wire armature covered with self-drying white clay- from Lewiscraft...It turned out really nice...Carfac gave me 25 dollars back for materials, but that wasnʼt the end of it...
Hooked again, I started making small flower wire armatured sculpture with self-hardening white-ish clay...A ballerina in the splits...A fallen downhill skier, intended as a mascot for the Vancouver Olympics (made in memory of my Dad-the fallen skier)... Again, my mum took me one day to Al Greenʼs sculpture school to see this new self-hardening stone material that Lorne Winters had invented called “Winterstone”... Someone nice showed me how to put glass fibres into it to make it stronger...I pudged around with a small piece in my hand & then we left...Too much dust in the air for me to work there...
Fast forward to 2011...I am building a Trumpeter swan Outdoor Sculpture for Bluffers Park (as intent- not commission), so that Trumpeter swans & humans & other predators will know that this is a Trumpeter swan friendly park...(Thereʼs a nice spot facing Lake Ontario in the bay)...In the months prior to starting this project I had been weaving artificial Trumpeter swan nests out of Sisal & using a simple monkey chain knot...I had stopped my oil painting habit because my eyes were telescoping...The arm strength I gained from weaving the nests gave me the ability to move to sculpture, large scale scu
C.V. Sari Grove May 2010
Bio
Sari Grove...is a Canadian icy cold Northern born blueish light
tending towards miserable,
knife 'n oils self-employed visual artist painter... Mostly things
related to the word “Grove”...Style is a stone arch bridge between
Impressionism & Expressionism which means, there is
subject but foggy...
Educated internationally & locally, though living
free range philosophically,
as if all that formal training was merely an appetizer to the main
course...
6 ideas that are important to the
artist ... 1)Charity work is worth it...2) Ex- gallerists are still
appreciated... 3)Social skills are part of being an artist ... 4)
Education is continuous ...5)Good family relations are
integral... 6)Survival skills belong to the daily regimen ...
Artist Statement
A lady’s flat wide (was once) white bowl of
steaming hot slow cook Cream of Wheat, cooled by a pour of
cold milk, burnished with granules of melting brown
sugar...Approach from the thickened edges with a well worn
metal spoon...Steam rises like vapour from a horse’s nostrils in
a winter morning barn, while crystalline diamonds in the rough
snow twinkles colours as the kaleidoscope melts into a hay of
textured sweetness ...Something about how good that is,
something like that is what Sari Grove is trying to paint in
her works of art...Tags on her life: Canadian, oil painter,
Expressionist, Nature’s child, optimist,educated, travelled,
friend, wife, butterfly...
Subject happens as it happens, Spirit of the Time , keeping
works of
art topical to happenings
around town ... Materials are classical, the finest oil paints
(though now made locally in Canada & selectively walnut oil
paints for their low low impact on the planet) on quality Belgian
linen canvas, though dammar varnish uses oranges rather than
turpentine(made in Canada too), knives to paint instead of
animal hair brushes, my stretcher bar wood from Canadian
basswood, which,
regrows quicker than pine (more sustainable) & no rabbits were
harmed for the size or ground...Method is rooted in automatism,
which allows
for a freedom of expression, though subconscious
seems so much more specific now than before... comfort with
abstraction allows works to be closer to reality, as, in many
ways, realism is actually very abstract...edges are thick &
painted, wire is copper, packaging is fabric bags not plastic...
Ethically, am bound by many rules, the mere hint of likeness often
scares this artist into dissolving an image with a gentle
opaque glaze to obscure recognition...Like a movie
star wears sunglasses, subjects hide , for privacy...
Full Gallery Representation & Gallerists
2010 New system: See a painting online, meet at National Mailbox in Toronto to see in viewing room,
by appointment with Sari Grove or 416-924-9725 (1/3 commission to National Mailbox for physicality
of viewing room)...
2009-2010 Water Lily solo show director/owner Usha Makan
2008 Kohl Gallery of Arts, Eglinton ave. , “ Tree Perspectives “
Director Gary Kohl
2007 Scollard Street Gallery, Scollard st. , Grand Opening , curator
Serge Chriqui
2006 Yorkville Gallery, Hazelton ave. , “ Toronto Film Festival “
curator Chun Chen
2004-2006 Lanes Gallery, Hazelton Lanes,solo, “ Chiaroscuro “
curator Bahman Fadaie-nia
2000-2003 Studio 99 Cafe & Gallery, Scollard street,solo, “ Cubism
“ curator Warsame Boch
2000 Art Canadiana Gallery & ArtistsDog Gallery , Montreal NY
curator Michael Cooper
2000 Original Papers Art Gallery, Prince Arthur st.,solo, “ Marsh
“ curator Tom Gottlieb
1998 Elaine Tennyson Gallery & Artfocus Gallery & The Red Head
Gallery,Darling Building curator Pat Fleisher
1996-1999 Yorkville Fine Frame , Bellair avenue,solo , “ Automatism
“ curator Huang Kun Lee(Jay & Meong Wan)
1995 Gebo Artworx, Queen st.west , “ Abstract Portraits “ cooperative
curatorial
1994 Artalog Art Gallery, Elte Carpets, North York , “ Star Formations
“ curator Mark Buck
1993 Studio 2007, Sherbourne st. , “ Pointillism “,solo, curator
Sari Grove
1984 Graduating year (grade 13) Art Exhibition, University of
Toronto
Schools, “Stripes & Spheres“ curator Mr. Boutros (art teacher)
Education...
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario 1991
Humber College, Ontario, 1990
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A. 1990
Ryerson Polytechnical University, Toronto, Ontario 1989
Atkinson College Ward’s Island, Toronto, Ontario 1989
McGill University Montreal Quebec Bachelor of Arts 1986-1989
Sarah Lawrence College 1984 - 1985
University of Toronto Schools U.T.S. Diploma 1979-1984
The Toronto French School T.F.S. Ontario age 2-1/2 - 1979
Media & Books & more...
2009 episode 2 on camera
interview ‘Aesthetics’, (Ontario College of Art campus but by
University of Toronto students)
as GroveCanada on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace & more...
2003 Atlantisia gallery...asked to comment about art by chimpanzees
who had been rescued from medical research into
aids... (yes, it is art, was the short answer (Sari gave a long answer,
as per usual though), aired on local news television)
Published 2001 “ The Talking Vegetable Garden” children’s
book...(written by her Dad, edited by her brother & published
with help from sister-in-law, with tremendous input from hubby
Joseph)...
2003 ArtistsDog, Michael Cooper
2000 Art Canadiana, Sharon Norman & Ray Argyle,
1998 ArtFocus, Pat Fleisher
1996 Giclees Altron Colour Imaging New Brunswick (Fine Art
Photography Transparencies shot by “See Spot Run”)
1994 MediaTV on CITYTV interview about Computers & Art
1993 Osmosis 500 limited edition prints Mahon Graphics Markham
Family History:
Sari’s grandfather & great-uncle are Lou & Nat Turofsky , founding
collection of sports photographs (5,000) at Hockey Hall of
Fame , see ‘ Turofsky
Collection’
at
Memberships...
CARFAC Canadian Artist Representation Federation Artistes Canadiens...
CARCC Canadian Artist Copyright Collective ...
Artists’ Digital Online Gallery
(DOG)
Macintosh (Collectors met in
person)
Blogger (Art Blog Writings)
Magnify (Movies Peer group)
Fotopic (Photo Album British)
Weebly (Canadian & shop)
GoDaddy (International + Twitter)
Email the artists at
Significant...married 1996 to artist Joseph Grove, owned by
B’Elanna & Jadzia bengal cats...
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GroveCanada (the word you use when Googling online...)
Joseph & Sari Grove like to support
Tree Canada who plant trees...
Collections & Donations...
FAR Museum Phoenix Arizona...as of Friday March 5,
2010...(Yay! This is my first museum)...”Pigeon & Baker ”security
tag registered at > title registered
officially to Teri Franks, inventor of the FAR security
tag...(love Teri, love those tags, saved my life when I had to
prove ownership provenance in gallery distraining...)
Haiti benefit February 24th at Glendon College, 6-9pm, Teodora
Porumb organiser, “Pussywillows”24 x36 framed float oils
linen...(raspberries in bowl underneath top painting...)
“Wild Lilacs”went to a writer...(television producer/writer),
“I hear the trees speak in colour”went to a famous hair colourist
who changed a molecule & created a hair colour line that was
safer...
“One Little Tree”went to a Christian golf club owner who is also
making green meal replacements & garlic & orgeano oils & owns
an exotic healthy food deli adjoining an internet cafe...
Sunnybrook Hospital Brain centre Transcranial Doppler machine
charity silent auction: painting went to Bjorn who works for
Mercedes (Laird & Eglinton) “Salesgirl”oils linen oil sticks R&F
pigments, gold powder, icing decorator tool from Canadian
Tire, water taffetta laundry bag, copper back wire...thank you
Bjorn.
Hazelton Lanes (through Vince, attorney for Hazelton Lanes)
Earth,Wind, Fire & Water, 3 feet by 4 feet by 2 inches oils on
canvas from 2004-5
National Gallery of Canada (through ArtMarketing on Bay
St.)(Joseph &
Sari Grove’s
‘Space Ships’ 30x40inch framed under plexiglass, watercolours
gum arabic
watersoluble
crayon
doublethick illustration board)
Art Gallery of Ontario (through Art Gallery Store)(Osmosis)
Sunnybrook Hospital Heart Centre (Silent Auction)(Jane’s Tree)
Sunnybrook Hospital Oncology Centre(Figure Skater , Bald Eagles,
Skeleton, oils 2x3ft)
St. George’s Society (Indian Summer by Joseph Grove, 300lb
Arches paper
,D.L.Stevenson acrylics, brush)
Sacre Coeur School (purchase at Silent Auction through teacher
Hodo )
Rosedale Dental Clinic ( 2 22x30inch Canadian made acrylics on
French
paper)
Mailboxes Etc. (Skiier, oils)
U.P.S. store (through Chantal from Haiti , Birthday Cake oils)
Lanes Gallery (Sous le Pont oils, & View -Daniel Smith metallic
oils
on wood panel cradled)
Yorkville Fine Frame (Cow 30x40 inch framed plexi. watercolours
Schmincke gum arabic crayon, Fruit aquapasto 30x40inch unframed
on doublethick architect board Curry’s)
Hudson’s Bay Company (through Design Academy student- possibly
bronze
of blowfish,
Music 22x30inch acry. on paper framed plexi.)
Toronto Abilty School (Osmosis lim.ed.print Mahon Graphics
Markham)
Fraternal Order of Eagles (Osmosis 100 lim.ed.prints for charity
M.D.)
Adoption Council of Canada (works by Joseph Grove, extensive
collection)
Aji Sai (Tsunami, oils)
National Mailbox (fridge magnet design , Joseph & ‘Mary’ Grove)
Sony Animation Studio (through Austin Grant Dusseldorf Hollywood
Niger
Freelance Ani
mation Technician-Walkabout , Pangea 3x4 foot oil by Joseph
Grove)
Tilley Endurables (through Joshua Letterman , work on paper
framed
Marsh series)
M.O.C.C.A. (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art when it was
up in
North York) full
grove@sent.
com to
make an
appointment
to see a
work at
National
Mailbox 33
Hazelton
avenue with
Sari Grove
or call
416-924-9725
& leave a
voicemail to
arrange a
viewing in
person with
Sari Grove
or call
416-924-9725
& leave a
voicemail to
arrange a
viewing in
person with
Sari Grove
set of professional slides Marsh collection from 2000
Horwath Orenstein Chartered Accountants (completely abstract
portrait
of Joyce Rashid
at
garden party oils)
Bochner Eye Institute (through gift to portrait Dr. Bernard J.
Slatt
at dentist , paper)
Lorac Wine Inc. (through Carol Slatt , I won a ribbon oils 3x4
feet,
Marsh framed plexi
watercolours
paper crayon watersoluble &/or oil pastel)
Kerbel Communications (through gift Pointillism oils, Golden
Dragon
paper acr. )
Metro Canada Logistics (through gift Casa horse oils 2x3 ft.))
Information about artist Sari Grove...(& her husband, Joseph
Grove
too, who works with Sari on many
projects...)
LCBO (through employee purchase at discount Crow oils, experimental
w.
brush))
Gallery One (through Baycrest Rehabilitative centre silent auction
purchase Osmosis)
Under
the
Magnolia
branch...
36 x 48”
oils on
canvas by
Sari
Grove is
asking
price $6K
University of Toronto Schools (through design submission Maple
Leaf digital image)
Materials:
no animal hair brushes, no turpentine, no non-renewable
wood, no framing starting in 2009, no cotton canvas, no lead,
no plastic
paint, no rabbit skin glue,no chemical varnish, no camera tracing,
no quantity output, no multiple photomechanical reproductions
manufacturers 2008-9 lefranc bourgeois(gold base),sennelier(
oil pastel),schmincke(mussini oil paints & powders),
liquitex(clear size),phoenix(linen+wood),eco-house(
orange dammar)...Kama Pigments walnut oil paint, R&F oil
pigment
sticks, William Sandys Wright Vaux knife, motorcycle knife,
skull & crossbones knives,Italian painting knife, icing decorator,
syringe,
surgical gloves...
Note: Joseph Grove is saving digital paper by Not writing a really
long C.V. that nobody cares to read anyways...
Snail mail address...
Joseph & Sari Grove
306-15 McMurrich street
Toronto, Ontario
M5R 3M6
CANADA
studio phone...
416 924-9725 (In Toronto)
email...