Lingua VI
Digital painting on paper. 30 x 40 in
Anda Kubis
Anda Kubis is a recognized Canadian abstract painter. She works in expanded digital and large scale oil painting. As an artist and educator, Anda is committed to aesthetics and creativity as they positively impact human flourishing and quality of life.
Evocative of idyllic landscapes or microscopic imagery, Anda’s abstract paintings provoke perception and conjure a wide range of associations. She uses colour to reflect an entirely contemporary world - one that is seen with light yet often shaped by our invisible digital tools. Attractive and at moments destabilizing, Anda’s paintings toggle between data and the material realm, just as we all do in order to participate in contemporary life. Her father Eduard Peter Kubis, a Post-war Latvian furniture designer, introduced Anda to Modernist ideals - notably a belief in aesthetics shaped by progressive notions towards new technologies and material experimentation - all with a healthy dose of humour. Informed by these tenets, and their criticisms, Anda’s work fundamentally emerges from her love of painting combined with a desire to reflect daily experience.
Anda Kubis has been a committed art educator since 1992 - having taught painting and drawing at York University and the University of Lethbridge. In 2000, she began her career at OCAD University. She has held administrative roles as the Chair of the Drawing and Painting Program (2009-2013), and Associate Dean, Outreach and Innovation in the Faculty of Art (2014-17). As Associate Professor at OCADU, she teaches upper level undergraduate and graduate students, in Toronto and abroad, specializing in studio teaching and seminar courses devoted to questioning the impact of new technologies upon how we live and express ideas today.
Anda Kubis has shown widely in North America and Europe. Her artwork is represented commercially in Canada by Bau-Xi Gallery, in Toronto and Vancouver, and Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art in Calgary. Numerous public and private collections have acquired her work, including: ScotiaBank, Capital One, RBC, TD Bank, BMO Art Bank, Cenovus Energy, Inter Pipeline - Calgary, Keg Restaurants, Nordstrom, Aimia, The Westaim Corporation, Rodin Law Firm Litigation Counsel, and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.