“In My Nature” Exhibition by Quebec Artist Stefan Horik

Friday, April 17, 5-7:30pm – Film Night with the Artist Stefan Horik and Filmmaker [KinoLore Productions and local filmmaker Nicholas Mullins]

April, April 18, 5-7:30pm – Opening Reception for “In My Nature” Exhibition by Quebec artist Stefan Horik

Beloved artist Stefan Horik has been exhibiting at Grand Bohemian Gallery Asheville since 2010. His vibrant palette-knife paintings are alive with texture and color – as he depicts the natural environs of his beloved Charlevoix region as well as our Blue Ridge Mountains. This annual exhibition missed a year only with the Covid pandemic, and with Hurricane Helene, where the artist lost a number of works.

Locally-based filmmaker Nicholas Mullins (Hendersonville) will join the artist for a showing of the documentary film he created about Stefan in Canada. 

Stefan Horik

Stefan Horik, born in Quebec in 1965 to a French Canadian mother and Ukrainian Canadian father (also a landscape artist), draws inspiration from the pastoral Charlevoix region and extensive travels across North America. His vibrant palette knife paintings are defined by strong contrasts and spontaneous energy, capturing emotional landscapes with immediacy. Since his first successful exhibition in 1996, Horik’s work has been shown in galleries across Canada and exclusively with the Grand Bohemian Galleries in the United States.

The success of his first exhibition held in 1996 inspired Horik to continue on the path of painting, instead of music, or computers – two of his early interests. The artist built a tiny house on wheels as a rolling studio, which allows him to take his studio into the cold Canadian outback in winter, to paint on-scene, allowing the artist to exercise well-defined contrasts and significant variations in color value in each painting. Particularly notable are his exaggerated horizontal and vertical scenes – as if viewing just a “slice” of an image in nature. Visiting Asheville since 2010, he has explored the area via kayak, canoe, cycle, and by foot – hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway and other areas of in the mountains.