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"Do a good job, not bad. *
Katja Tukiainen, born in Pori, Finland, 1969, is an acclaimed painter and visual artist whose
works have been included in international exhibitions and public collections. She
paints because she loves the challenge of creating impressions, only possible
with oil paint. Already in the middle of 1990's her paintings turned to the
pink scale and represented her cute but not harmless girl characters. Since
then her girls have appeared not only in her paintings but also in her
murals, sculptures, graphic novels and even tattooed on people’s skin.
Tukiainen calls them her girl army. The members of her army are cute,
irreproachable, strong and determined girls who do anything she asks. Tukiainen holds master degrees from both Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and
University of Art and Design Helsinki. At the moment she is working with her
visual artist's PhD in Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Her artistic research
focuses on narrative painting in space. In the mid 1990's she studied in
Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Italy. In Venice she was selected for the first
time to international group shows. Tukiainen has participated in
artist-in-residence programs in Hungary, Italy, Japan, Sweden and New York. Katja describes her work: "With my paintings, sculptures and installations I lead the audience
to the world where cute and minor creatures have an opinion and the power. When
I am reading daily news I cannot always believe in goodness, but in the world
of my art good wins bad 6-0. People say my works are provocative and they speak
out, but still they are sensitive. It is more than ok to say that." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |
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