Jason Misurka
“Lifting joy and spirit through moment and colour”.
My name is Jason Misurka, an emerging Canadian abstract artist born in 1967
Toronto Ontario. I now live in Mississauga, where I paint in my home studio, overlooking and inspiring backyard view.
Having spent over two decades in skilled trades and being a graduate of The Fundamentals of Art and Animation programs at Sheridan College, I paint full-time as a contemporary abstract artist since 2020.
My artistic journey and interest in the arts began at a very young age, around 8 years old, when I picked up a pencil and started doodling images of animals and landscapes. This sparked my imagination and continued throughout high school and then college.
My journey formally began with an introduction to visual arts at Sheridan College, where I studied the fundamentals of art. There, I explored various mediums such as photography, printmaking, live model sketching, and art theory.
I then moved on to the main course of study in the Classical Animation program, which involved more intense visual perceptions, creating repetitive animated drawings brought to life, and designing backgrounds and layouts.
Looking back, I found that my passion and interest in abstract painting allowed me to let go and let my imagination unfold. I created sketches of shapes and forms and then built on them with bold color tones, inspired by my everyday life experiences and observations.
Active member of Headwaters Arts Gallery; Society of Canadian Artists and Mississauga Arts Council.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My paintings intuitively engage the subconscious mind with dreamlike state captures and moments frozen in time and space.This is achieved through layering translucent, bold colour palettes, transferred images, and masking film, adding layers of bold colour forms that evoke the senses with energy, flows of movement and joyfulness.
My paintings are an expression and interpretation of my own life experiences gathered from observations. These observations are then collected and inspired from photo captures, compiled hand sketches of my conjured images and thoughts, and manipulated to shape and form compositions.
The focuses may include inspiring long walks through the urban streetscapes of downtown Toronto, European and Caribbean vacations, and casual nature hikes, such as the winding trails through Gravenhurst Ontario. These life experiences and adventures allow me to explore many areas of interest such as the wonders of nature, florals and the bountiful colours and landscapes the world has to offer.
My techniques include air brushes with richly pigmented acrylic tones, where I paint wide swaths with sweeping motions and smaller areas of fine details. I engage in hand painting with long and short gestural brush movements, incorporating free - flow inks to push paint around in spontaneous flows that naturally unfold in its raw organic forms. Final touches may include acrylic markers for fine details and a flick brush for splatter effects.
“Lifting joy and spirit through moment and colour”.
My name is Jason Misurka, an emerging Canadian abstract artist born in 1967
Toronto Ontario. I now live in Mississauga, where I paint in my home studio, overlooking and inspiring backyard view.
Having spent over two decades in skilled trades and being a graduate of The Fundamentals of Art and Animation programs at Sheridan College, I paint full-time as a contemporary abstract artist since 2020.
My artistic journey and interest in the arts began at a very young age, around 8 years old, when I picked up a pencil and started doodling images of animals and landscapes. This sparked my imagination and continued throughout high school and then college.
My journey formally began with an introduction to visual arts at Sheridan College, where I studied the fundamentals of art. There, I explored various mediums such as photography, printmaking, live model sketching, and art theory.
I then moved on to the main course of study in the Classical Animation program, which involved more intense visual perceptions, creating repetitive animated drawings brought to life, and designing backgrounds and layouts.
Looking back, I found that my passion and interest in abstract painting allowed me to let go and let my imagination unfold. I created sketches of shapes and forms and then built on them with bold color tones, inspired by my everyday life experiences and observations.
Active member of Headwaters Arts Gallery; Society of Canadian Artists and Mississauga Arts Council.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My paintings intuitively engage the subconscious mind with dreamlike state captures and moments frozen in time and space.This is achieved through layering translucent, bold colour palettes, transferred images, and masking film, adding layers of bold colour forms that evoke the senses with energy, flows of movement and joyfulness.
My paintings are an expression and interpretation of my own life experiences gathered from observations. These observations are then collected and inspired from photo captures, compiled hand sketches of my conjured images and thoughts, and manipulated to shape and form compositions.
The focuses may include inspiring long walks through the urban streetscapes of downtown Toronto, European and Caribbean vacations, and casual nature hikes, such as the winding trails through Gravenhurst Ontario. These life experiences and adventures allow me to explore many areas of interest such as the wonders of nature, florals and the bountiful colours and landscapes the world has to offer.
My techniques include air brushes with richly pigmented acrylic tones, where I paint wide swaths with sweeping motions and smaller areas of fine details. I engage in hand painting with long and short gestural brush movements, incorporating free - flow inks to push paint around in spontaneous flows that naturally unfold in its raw organic forms. Final touches may include acrylic markers for fine details and a flick brush for splatter effects.
$1,600.00
Acrylic on birch panel (framed).
28x50x2"
Installed with white floating frame .
$1,300.00
Acrylic on plexiglass.
24x48"
"Wandering Wild" is an abstracted painting created and inspired by the violent swirling winds impacted by the true nature of tornadoes. This is symbolic of the turbulent effects and utter chaos that can possess in people’s lives. To counteract this, I incorporated and mimicked the wild nature through bold colour swashes and a splatter effect that evokes the energy and movement to restore hope, joyfulness, and peace.“
$1,675.00
Acrylic on canvas (framed).
36x48x2"
Installed with black floating frame
$1,120.00
Acrylic on canvas (framed).
24x48x2.10"
Installed with black floating frame
$1,800.00
Acrylic on canvas.
45x45"
" Static is a painting reminiscent and inspired of a throwback to our youth, resembling an enhanced cross-section and the Cubistic pattern of a disco ball. I manipulated and reconstructed these enlarged forms while adding neon and fluorescent tones to evoke the senses and notions, sparking energy, fun, and joy."
$1,920.00
Acrylic on canvas (framed).
45x45x2.10"
" This painting features abstracted, balloon - like layering, with translucent bold shapes and forms ascending in an upward motion. This representation is intended to tap into and conjure the senses, creating a feeling of floatation and weightlessness that has been lifted, and a sense of calm and piece."
Installed with white floating frame
$1,920.00
Acrylic and ink on birch (framed).
48x36x2.10"
" Breaking Through is my abstracted expression of an intertwining road map of life's journeys, the paths people will take ,and their own ventures of self discovery.
This combination of rich, bold tones and free
- flowing ink forms, manipulating a striking resemblance and symbolic expression of - Breaking Through your glass ceiling."
Installed with white floating frame
$1,600.00
Acrylic on canvas (framed).
40x40x2.10"
" Magnetic Attraction is my dreamlike imagination, depicting the abstracted effects of swirling atoms, protons, shapes, and forms with my stylistic approach of layering and intertwining bold colours of raw energy and spontaneous flows . This is symbolic of the conjuring effects of the positive energies within ourselves.
Installed with white floating frame
$1,320.00
Acrylic on birch.
30x40"
"Aqua Blue," my new abstract painting, is an interpretation of bold colour arrangements inspired by my candid photo capture of a school of blue fish during a boat cruise of the Blue Caves in the Ionian Sea off the Island of Zakynthos, Greece. I created these effects by building and blending soft colour tones, adding contrasting dark tones to enhance and manipulate capturing a water flow composition of the sea and fish using airbrush techniques. Additionally, I hand-painted finer details to give it an overall organic, free-flowing image intended to captivate and preserve a moment in time of nature's beauty.
$2,618.00
Acrylic on birch panel.
70x34"
"Springs Eternal Bliss" is my abstracted painting inspired by the warmth and bountiful colours of spring. This interpretation is reminiscent and lent as an inspiration of our recent experiences during our vacation in Zakynthos, Greece. The breathtaking views and turquoise aqua blue ocean painted an evocative picture that sparked my imagination to create a vivacious and luscious arrangement of dreamlike florals and aromatic nuances. This unfolded with layering bold and soft tone airbrush work, along with hand-painted fine details and small flick brush splatter effect for a memorable, spirited, and joyful impression to welcome the spring season.”