Meet the Artist
kyle
SORENSEN
ARTIST & OWNER
GEORGIAN BAY | ONTARIO, CANADA
Canadian artist Kyle Sorensen is best known for his rich portrayal of landscapes through the lens of geometric abstraction. Resonating with the Cubists, as well as the language of hard edge painting, Sorensen’s fractured acrylic landscapes are a fresh approach to traditional landscape painting.
Inspired by the vast beauty of Northern Ontario and the waters of Georgian Bay, Kyle’s work focuses on dissecting these three dimensional landmasses in to their simplest two dimensional form, with immense concentration on bold colours and razor sharp transitions.
Sorensen’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and venues across North America since his first solo exhibition in 2013. Kyle was also nominated for the “BMO 1st Art Award” in 2013.
STATEMENT
I always begin my process with a place. A place that I am drawn to for whatever reason; sometimes it might be my interest in how the waves crash against shoreline, or perhaps the way the sun sparkles on the blue water. I’ll snap a photo with my camera and revisit these images later in my studio where my mind will begin to reduce the image into various geometric shapes and colours. It is by reducing the image to various intersecting planes that you are left with an abstract image of where you once were, or how you felt when you witnessed this place.
From these concept sketches, I begin my paintings. Working with acrylics and Canadian Birch panels I paint and create a fragmented memory of the place I once sat. The end result leaves the viewer with a familiar feeling; like they’ve been there before, or they can remember how it felt when they were in that moment. It need not be an exact replica of the image I saw through my own eyes, rather an image that prompts your other senses; temperature, smell, location. And to me, that is the most important part of my practice – feeling, remembering, contemplating.