Resumé

ARTISTIC HIGHLIGHTS:

Participated in a recent international art competition with noted recognition:
www.artistwanted.org/linzykokoska

Recent artist review in a predominant art critics’ blog based in Budapest: http://www.szecesszio.com/linea/2009/11/30/the-symbolist-decorative-art-of-linzy-kokoska/

CMYK - butik og galleri, Cophenhagen, permanent selling artist (prints) Desert Art Show, Private art show with expat artists in Muscat, Oman, 2009
PGC (post globalization collective) art show, Singapore, November, 2008
LACAD group art exhibited, L.A – 2006-2007-2008
Art in the Ghetto, group exhibition- Seoul, Korea - 2006
University of Cape Breton Art Gallery – 2004 solo exhibition

Taught art to adults and children in both group and private settings
Taught Art and Dramatic Arts to University level students
Fine artist: Mixed media, watercolor, oil, acrylic and ink

Digital artist: using photography, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, Pattern maker

Websites:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linzy-Kokoska-Visual-Artist/119649031639,
http://www.wix.com/LinzyK/This-is-the-one,http://www.myartspace.com/linzy.kokoska

Art Curatorial Assistant- University of Cape Breton 2002-2004- Helped to install shows for visiting artists and volunteered time as a curatorial assistant for the gallery.
Member of WAF, World Art Federation
Commissioned works to various clients around the world.
Designed and sold work to a prominent Indi-rock band in Canada and have my art work circulating on over 20,000 Cd’s and posters.
Published a book of art and poetry in 2008; Beautiful Abstraction: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/323146

12 years of Dramatic arts experience for theatre and film

DESIGN & MARKETING/MANAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS:

Specializing in branding ,logo design, creative ideas and art direction.
Created art work for various clients, such as logos, broachers and banners
Organized events, Performed PR functions, dealt with media as well as managed events.
Created media kits, press releases and copywriting as well as, created special promotions, write/design print
Organized large and small scale events for business and art
Advertising and marketing, creating appealing and tactical packages for release


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Employment History

Freelance Design and Art Direction, current, Bahrain
{rojects completed to date: Gulf Air TV commercial, Art direction/ Set Design,Fashion TV, Presenter and Video Editor for 60 second clip to air on Fashion TV International,Various branding and logo projects for private companies

TALKS International –Muscat, Oman- PR and Event Manager/Copywriting Editor, September 2008 to June 2009

Emagazine Art- Madrid, Spain www. Emagazineart.com- Jr. Contributing Editor, Copy Writer and media relations, Freelance

SOLEIP Gyeongsang National University, S.K - University ESL and Art Educator, December 2007-July 2008

Urban Events - Part-Time Event Coordinator, PR Coordinator, and Staff
Supervisor, Seoul, South Korea 2005-2007

Infraware, Inc. (www.infraware.co.kr)-Part-time IT/Business ESL Instructor, February 2006-August 2006 Seoul, South Korea

Yes Youngdo English Academy Art Educator and English Instructor, June 2004-June 2005 Seoul, South Korea

Donovan Media Productions -Marketing/Public Relations Internship,
March 2004-June 2004, Sydney, N.S.

Private Art Instructor, on going for 5 years.

Art Curatorial Assistant- University of Cape Breton 2002-2004- Helped to install shows for visiting artists and volunteered time as a curatorial assistant for the gallery.

Education History

Sessions Online School of Design, NYC, New York, USA-Present-
Masters in Digital Design, online program :Concentration in Graphic Design, Digital Illustration and Art.

Toronto School of Art- Toronto, Ontario, CA- 2007
One year, intensive fine art studies: Collage, mixed media and print making

University of Cape Breton Sydney, Nova Scotia Fall 2002-Spring 2004
Graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration: 4-year Marketing

Concordia University Montreal, Quebec Fall 2000- spring 2001
Visiting student in Bachelor of Commerce (marketing)

Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia Fall 1998- spring 2000
Bachelor of Commerce (business, science and arts electives)

Holy Angels High School Graduated in 1998
High School Diploma

Santra Putura Studio, Ubud, Bali, Republic of Indonesia
Competed: Intensive abstract art studies

Studio Perak, Ubud, Bali, Republic of Indonesia
Competed: Intensive Jewellery design and silversmith studies

Threads of Life, Ubud, Bali, Republic of Indonesia
Competed: Intensive Indonesian and Balinese textile studies.

Article Exert on my work:
…“The work of Linzy Kokoska is incredibly filled by symbolist evocations. She’s a living (yes, living !) artist, born in Nova Scotia but who traveled through many countries in Europe and Asia (see Linzy Kokoska visual artist profile on Facebook). Her second name, Kokoska, isn’t definitively invented, but it’s real: we don’t know if she’s relative of the famous Oskar Kokoschka, but we know that the spirit of Austria Felix, an aesthetic where coexist a complexity of artistic developments such as expressionism, decorativism, symbolism and secession, is still alive in this contemporary artist.”
…“A further step in the Symbolist direction is performed by Linzy Kokoska combining the perception of natural elements with images and symbols which belong to the incredibly wide universe of this painter’s own sensibility. Again, we are miles away from every Impressionism: natural elements aren’t copied, nor interpreted, but, really, created and transformed in a sort of heraclitean flux…”
…“As Henri van de Velde perfectly stated, the lines in decorative or figurative arts, is not just a “beautiful element”, an embellishment which excites the eye of the spectator. The lines is charged by the energy and the spirituality of the artist who drawn it ! And, definitively, this is the case of Linzy Kokoska, too.”
By Mattia Moretti, Art Critic and Historian, Budapest, Hungary
View full article:
http://www.szecesszio.com/linea/2009/11/30/the-symbolist-decorative-art-of-linzy-kokoska/

Projects by Linzy Kokoska

Digital Dreams
17 Files

Vintage remixed
5 Files

Patterns
5 Files

Collage
5 Files

Alien Flowers
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posters
2 Files

Lovely by Linzy Kokoska
7 Files

detailed matter
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Portraits Remixed
7 Files