Artists » Dimce Isailovski

Isailovski’s paintings, drawings, and collages are full of emotions, expressions, and warm colors. He has taken Macedonian traditional images and applied them in a modern, contemporary style. His most critically acclaimed work has been his collages. As R.M. Vaughan of the Globe and Mail described these works, “Isailovski gives the muse mythology a decidedly urban look by mounting his skilful graphite portraits of young, bountifully coiffed women onto layers of newspapers. … Fused and then ripped, cut into shapes, and dappled with enamel paints (which appear especially glossy against grimy newsprint), these recycled canvases carry an innate dynamism, a frantic tone, that is nicely offset by the complete contentment, and confidence, carried by Isailovski’s nubile subjects. While this kind of tattered presentation is not for everyone, especially people who worry about the archival longevity of art, I found it invigorating, a refreshingly unstuffy conflation of street-art ingenuity and fine art formality.” A 1985 art graduate of the Skopje, Macedonia’s University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. Isailovski has had eighteen solo exhibitions and produced seven individual installations and multimedia projects. He has participated at over 50 group exhibitions. Since 1985, he has been a member of the Macedonian National Association of Fine Artists. His North American exhibitions include three solo exhibits in Ottawa, two exhibitions in Toronto, as well as exhibitions in New York, and in Washington, D.C Isailovski has been a visiting artist in Frankfurt, Germany; Bologna and Venice, Italy; Paris, France; and Ankara, Turkey. In parallel to his fine art production, Isailovski has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, art-graphic editor, executive editor, Art Editor-in-Chief and Chief Designer. He has created designs for more than 500 publications.