Emerging Artists: Jasmine Cardenas and Court Swartz

As we round up our artist features this month, we’re elated to present new work by emerging artists Court Swartz and Jasmine Cardenas.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

Jasmine Cardenas

Jasmine Cardenas (b. 1995) is a Toronto based Ecuadorian-Canadian artist working with sculptural paintings, collage and installation. She received her BFA from OCAD University in 2017. Through collecting personal images and objects, her work explores themes of cultural hybridity, childhood, and storytelling. Cardenas’ practice uses a playful tactile approach, materializing lived experiences.

Mood Swingin', oil on canvas, 24" x 24"

$1,050.00

Here Together, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"

$1,050.00

Leftovers, oil on canvas, 12" x 12"

$400.00

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

Court Swartz

Courtlandt Swartz (b. 1993) aspires to create work that involves the viewer without the use of any subject matter or objective message. In 2013 he began to suspend sculptural forms of paint within geometric prisms of hand-cast acrylic glass. Selectively affecting the surface clarity creates windows and apertures, offering insight to the internal elements as they are concealed and revealed. Swartz simultaneously creates large-scale oil paintings, using the phenomenon generated within the sculptural works as inspiration.