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Karin Bubaš is a Canadian photographic artist who has gained an enviable reputation in recent years for her rich and often haunting imagery inspired by cinematic themes, her environment and contemporary culture.
Karin Bubaš was born in 1976 in North Vancouver, BC. Encouraged by her parents from an early age and inspired by the talents of her older brother Dan, she has always loved art. She fondly recalls her high school art classes at Sutherland Secondary School with teachers Lorna Schuler and Wesley Anderson who nurtured her natural abilities in drawing, design and photography. They also introduced her to Artists for Kids where she had the opportunity to work in scholarship programs with great Canadian artists Guido Molinari and David Blackwood. Following high school graduation in 1994 and a year at Langara Community College, she enrolled in Emily Carr College of Art and Design to pursue her love of photography in earnest. She graduated with a diploma in Media Arts in 1998 and has worked as an artist ever since.
Karin Bubaš draws references to the cinematic work of Alfred Hitchkock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sophia Coppola and the photographic work of William Eggleston. Bubaš is a very prolific artist. She has participated in more than 40 solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe in the past twelve years. Her work is found in numerous private and public collections including Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, Alberta, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver. |
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Karin Bubaš
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Late Winter, Lynn Creek |
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colour photograph
edition 45, 5 artist's proofs, signed by the artist
mounted on acid free gator board
paper size 20.75 x 50", image size 14.75 x 44"
released April, 2010
sale price:
$950
The Print
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The colour photograph “Late Winter, Lynn Creek” is a 44” wide panorama which uses the natural setting and local history of Lynn Valley as a source of inspiration. The image depicts late winter foliage in a northern view of Lynn Creek in lower Lynn Valley. A sizeable billow of smoke lingers at the foot of the rocky river bed, hovering like early morning fog. Upon further inspection, the outline and features of a young woman emerges through the smoke as a sort of apparition or smoke spirit. The picture brings to mind the rich historical aboriginal ancestry of the region and is a further exploration of the relationship between woman and nature. The image was also informed by archival photographs of Squamish nation residents at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Born and raised in Lynn Valley, Bubaš felt that creating an image sympathetic to the history of Lynn Valley and North Vancouver would be appropriate for an artist edition. Like Bubaš’ previous work with women in the landscape, the image raises questions rather than provides answers. Who is this woman and what is she doing at the foot of the river bed? Is she lighting a smoke signal or is she performing some sort of ceremonial task? Or does she not really exist and is just a kind of apparition that seems plausible through the fog?
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