About The Artist
This site is about my husband, Ed Maskevich. He has been involved in making and creating all sorts of things as far back as he can remember. Art has always been one of the true joys of his life. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. He later moved to New York City to pursue the dream of many artists, that is to make it in the big time. After three years he decided that this was not the direction for him.
We married in September of 1980 and have two daughters. We recently added a wonderful grandson to our family. We also have an assortment of cats, dogs, and fish. We live in a small town, West Olive, in Michigan. It is little more than a wide spot in the road. It is a quiet semi-rural area that we prefer.
I started this website for my husband because he is disabled. he suffers from a chronic mental illness called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This is a condition that he has had his entire life. When he was younger he had the energy to manage and cope with this illness. Over time the illness has become more chronic and consumes most of his energy making it impossible for him to function productively in the everyday world. It has also had an impact on his art. His art has become, for him, a form of therapy that helps him to somewhat normalize his life. His illness does not affect his intelligence, insight, or motor skills and abilities. It does affect his organizational and social skills so that is where I have taken over. My husband's illness keeps him from running a business. So, I have set up website so that I can share the work of my husband with others.
Louise Maskevich
Owner and President
EM Fine Art Studio, LLC
Artist’s Statement
July 28, 2005
For quite a long time I used
to believe that the essence of my work could be distilled down to one word,
strength. Strong color, shape, composition, light and so on. That slowly I was
eliminating all of the unnecessary elements. I was trimming it down to bare and
simple forms. The paintings were sleek and trim and could hold their own. The
reality I discovered is something quite different.
My work is more about
contradictions. There are simple shapes but they are made up of layers of
colors and scribbles as I mix the paint on the surface of the painting. As much
as I wanted to simplify everything I could not tolerate the shapes to be flat
and lifeless. I wanted something simple yet I wanted it to be richly complex
without it appearing to be that way. This was a throw back to my days as an
abstract color field painter. I wanted each simple shape to be a small abstract
painting working with other small abstract paintings on the same surface.
Various complex microcosms coming together to form a completed whole.
“Jung has wisely said
that if you are able to observe a quality that is characteristic of a
person, you may be quite certain that somewhere in that person the opposite is
equally true.” June Singer, BOUNDARIES OF THE SOUL
