Titania Michniewicz - Red Phase

My red phase began with the last paintings I completed in my second year painting course at Ottawa University. It had been a challenging year, and I was processing the repressed memories of sexual abuse that happened when I was nine. My world shifted dramatically in the last four months of school: I ended my 4 1/2 year relationship with my live-in boyfriend and decided to transfer out to the University of Victoria to complete my Fine Arts degree (the program at Ottawa University was to be scaled back dramatically while restructuring took place).

After getting settled in Victoria, I turned my focus back to painting. What emerged in my work was an overwhelming attraction to red paint... not just a single shade of red, but any red I could get my hands on.... the more vivid, the better.

The images were large, and disturbing in their intensity, but also very beautiful and symbolic. They effectively conveyed that time of great change and turmoil that brought me to a completely new perspective and life on the West Coast.




Undersea

Orange Sky
1994
acrylic on canvas
37" x 51"

$1625.00



Seafloor

Untitled
1994
acrylic on mylar
96" x 42"

$3025.00




Tangled Garden

Red Trees
1994
acrylic on mylar
42" x 52"

SOLD





Untitled

Red Cathedral
1994
acrylic on mylar
42" x 52"

SOLD




In The Garden

In the Garden
1994
acrylic on mylar
42" x 52"

SOLD





Spiral

Beckwith I
1996
acrylic on mylar
15" x 36"

SOLD





Wood Between the Worlds

Beckwith II
1996
acrylic on mylar
15" x 36"

SOLD





Untitled Sky

Erin
1996
acrylic on canvas
40" x 48"

SOLD