Art House 310 First Friday – Tania Pemar & Dominique Joiner
Opening Reception | First Friday December 1st, 2023 | 6-10pm
This event is free to attend and open to the public. Show hangs through December 24th, 2023. Art House 310 is located at 310 S. Laura. Two blocks SE of Douglas & Washington in downtown Wichita.
TANIA PEMAR
Tania Pemar is a freelance artist living and working just outside of Wichita, KS.
Tania has always been enthralled by the experience of art making itself. The feeling of her hands engaging with the materials, the moments before and after mark making, and the subtle shifts in seeing the natural world around her. Her work is the accumulation of: feelings, memories, landscape, subconscious and conscious thoughts that form into colors and shapes that she interacts with on canvas. Her work is primarily driven by the way she experiences the world visually, through the mental notes she takes as she goes about her day to day. Another key part to her practice is the fact she has grown up surrounded by the landscape of the coast and this is a major theme that continues to bring life and vision to her work.
Tania is passionate about the unique and integral impact artwork can have within a space. She believes that art can be a fulfilling experience in the spaces we dwell.
See more of Tania’s work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taniapemar/
DOMINIQUE JOINER
Dominique Joiner (b 1988 Wichita, Kansas) uses her chosen mediums of acrylic and oils to identify the experience of women in a male dominated society. Dominique has observed the lives of many women from several walks of life and uses the influence of these women to relay her narrative. She uses the ideals of sensuality and affection to draw the viewer in and coaxes them to become more aware with riveting details and underlying messages. Dominique has a goal of pressing women to gain more ipseity, regardless of the rhetoric they are taught to the contrary.
Ipseity starts with awareness, the doorway to change. Many of the artist’s paintings directly depict the chosen problem, with no offer of a solution, forcing the viewer to digest and relate. The use of golden accents is meant to show a sense of majesty and divinity that women carry, regardless of the situation, be it vulnerable or powerful. As the gateway to life, women deserve to be viewed as such. Dominique’s art will encourage individuals to search inwardly and come to peace with their feelings.
See more of Dominque’s work on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DomiiiJo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/domiijo/ and on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@domiijo