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Biography for Rhona Konrad |
 Rhona Konrad was born in Montreal into a family of artists and musicians. Konrad began studying piano at the age of three and by the age of eight, won a scholarship to the esteemed Conservatoire de Musique et D’Art Dramatique. Her father, Sigmund, was a professional artist and owner of an art gallery in Montreal. Konrad learned to paint from him and regularly exhibited and sold her artwork in his gallery. She has won various art competitions and has sold her work to several museums in Canada.
Konrad has exhibited regularly throughout the years and was featured in the Holocaust Remembrance Week in Toronto several years ago. Her most recent exhibit is currently running until January 31st, 2206 at System4, located at 70 Wingold, suite 2. Konrad, who has an arts degree with an honours in Art History from McGill University, has been influenced by many disciplines and experiences, ranging from being the child of Holocaust survivors to high energy physics to Buddhist philosophy.
Konrad says the following sums up her philosophy…”Through my studies and explorations, I have discovered the world is one interconnected whole. Whether it is the destruction or creation of subatomic particles, the Temple in Jerusalem or reciting the Shema, everything is interrelated,” she says. “ My whole life I have tried to balance knowledge and imagination and I am constantly brought back to something Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Konrad has developed and employs an ethereal technique combined with an opaque use of watercolours to express her vision of spiritual and mystical elements of our existence. This is juxtaposed by the use of architecture, winding streets and archways. The movement through these doorways and streets offsets the ephemeral spirit world as well as a way to delve into the layers that mask the truth in our lives.
Recently, Konrad has worked on a series of miniature paintings, titled, Spiritual Manuscripts, using mixed media. Other series include the human body, synergetic nature, Judaica, which also incorporate mixed media as well as digital imaging.
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