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Artist Statement:
My works are a mosaic of mixed
media: photography, drawing,
painting, performance,
photomontages, and collages
all in a traditional and
digital integration.
The most intimate form of my
expression is paintings – art
of action and graphic design
mixed with photography-
specific collage of irony,
perceiving the reality, my
rebel. My ...
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Katarzyna Gajewska Biography:
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29
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Mixed Media
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Cy Twombly
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Education 1998 Graduated with the title of Artist-Exhibitor at State Secondary Art School in Warsaw 2003 Graduated with B.F.A at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2005 Graduated with M.F.A at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2002 Exhibition of painting, Forum of Non – Governmental Initiatives, Polish Theatre, Warsaw, Poland 2002 Exhibition of paintings and posters, Fund of Non – Governmental Initiatives, Warsaw, Poland 2002 Painting Exhibition, Kawiarnia Radna, Warsaw, Poland 2003 Exhibition of paintings and graphics, Elektor Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2004 Painting Exhibition, Gallery Chimera, Old Town, Warsaw, Poland 2004 Painting Exhibition, Gallery Kotlownia, Warsaw, Poland 2005 Painting Exhibition, Gallery Le Madame, Warsaw, Poland 2005 Poster Exhibition, Make Art not Violence, Gallery Le Madame, Warsaw, Poland
2006 November, Painting Exhibition, “The Battle over Madame X”, Origin Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland
2006 Dec – Jan 07, Painting Exhibition, “Beyond the Clouds”, One Gallery, Co. Dublin, Ireland
2007 Solo Exhibition, “First Hand Emotion”, 13 – 25 Feb 2007, Signal Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow, Ireland 2007 Solo Exhibition, “Face’ography”, 2 -31 March, the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland
2007 Solo Exhibition, 3 – 29 June, “In the Name of the Feelings”, Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow,
2007 Solo Exhibition, “Based on Dreams” 9.08 -6.09, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland
2007 Solo Exhibition, September, “Pleasures and Terrors” the Mill Theatre Gallery, Dundrum, Co. Dublin, Ireland
2007 Solo Exhibition, November, “Paintolepsy” Droichead Arts Centre, Co.Dublin, Ireland 2007 Solo Exhibition, December, Cavan Arts Office, Co. Cavan, Ireland
2008 Feb “La Vie en Rose”, Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2008 March, DIY, Wexford, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions 1999 Poster – reviews at the Polish, German and French Days of Culture, Weimar, Germany 1999 Polish – German exhibition of student poster “To overcome the borders – international studies” Warsaw, Poland 1999 Exhibition preceding the Polish Festival of Feature Film, Gdynia, Poland 2002 Exhibition “Sex, art and video tapes”, Foundation Wyspa Progress, Gdansk, Poland 2003 International painting project “Orbis Pictus Europa”, Warsaw – Praha 2003 International Poster Triennial, Trnava
2003 Photo overview “Human Faces”, Warsaw, Poland 2004 “Men say no to violence against women” – Artists against violence, Warsaw, Poland 2005 IAF, Inspired Art Fair, London, United Kingdom 2005 Christmas Art Fair, Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2006 Cois Farraige 06, Joan Clancy Gallery, Co. Waterford, Ireland
2006 “In the Frame”, Siopa Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland 2006 “Everything in God’s Garden is Rosy”, Waterville Lake Hotel, Co. Kerry, Ireland 2006 “Mother Art- A group show of 12 female artists”, Buckley & Associates Fine Art, Co. Cork, Ireland 2006 September 30th, Open Studios, Pallas Heights, Dublin, Ireland
2006 17 – 19 November, Art Ireland, Dublin Art Fair, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
2006 December, Christmas Group Show, Joan Clancy Gallery, Co. Waterford, Ireland
2006 Dec – Jan 07, Mid Winter Exhibition, Hallward Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Dec – Jan 07, Christmas Exhibition, the Kenny Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2007 February Art Extravaganza, Joan Clancy Gallery, Co. Waterford, Ireland
2007 July, GRETA HELLSTROM~JOHN BETJEMAN TRIBUTE, Joan Clancy Gallery, Co. Waterford, Ireland
2007 July, Polish Art Summer, Project Arts Centre, Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland 2007, 6th-9th December, Polish Artists for Children, the George Hotel, Limerick, Ireland
2007 Christmas Art Exhibition, Urban Retreat Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Christmas Art Exhibition, Joan Clancy Gallery, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland
2007, December, AMO Public Art Exhibition, IFI, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
2008 1-21 Feb “Between Dreams and Documentation” new paintings by Katarzyna Gajewska and Bill Griffin, the Kenny Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2008 March, SolArt Gallery, Co Cavan
2008 March, Spring Exhibition, Joan Clancy Gallery, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Upcoming Exhibitions 2008 Solo Exhibition, the Ivy House, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Awards
2004-2005 Ministry of Culture Scholarship, Poland
Collections
Private Collections in Ireland, England, Germany, United States Residencies
Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry, August 2005 Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry, December 2005
Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry Dec 07-Jan 2008
www.myspace.com/katarzynagajewska
www.katarinagajewska.com
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| Artist Statement |
My works are a mosaic of mixed media: photography, drawing, painting, performance, photomontages, and collages all in a traditional and digital integration.
The most intimate form of my expression is paintings – art of action and graphic design mixed with photography- specific collage of irony, perceiving the reality, my rebel. My paintings evolve organically from life's everyday glances. Rather than trying to force my will on them, I give them total control. Each layer determines and guides the next. My paintings, my photographs, also my digital works are a dialogue between giving and taking. I don't want to sign the work until it looks like it has been lived on, until I have violated the open white space and created something that can become independent of me and fend for itself. My works and research explore conceptual relations between cognitive processes, languages and cultures, as well as existentialism and perceived reality, in which an infinite human imagination constructs and distorts an existence into an illusion of reality.
The role of provocative feelings, persuasion as well as the human impulse to beautify compels my works of art. The ephemeral nature of being, how it intersects with the manifestation of various power structures and binary gender codes and how the minutia of detail poses as the illusion of choice is the heart of my art.
My inspiration is a complexity and depth of single individual feelings, getting out of mental barrier. In my art, especially in painting I’m trying to connect the way, which forms states human anxiety, intimate and difficult to articulate states. I’m looking for a path, which in a strange and unexpected way will guide me through the difficult and sometimes sensitive emotions. My inspiration is human face it’s mimic of, happiness, sadness, pain, glances. Glance which reaches far beyond the borders of body and soul. This glance is exactly what I’m trying to catch. Glance imprisoned behind the pane of glass. This glass symbolises small prisons of our souls, prisons which are built for indifference of other people. Inspirations of my projects are often mannequins. Mannequins moulded on human similarity and imprisoned behind the shop fronts. The mannequin, his stiff glance, rigid gestures, has for me and my art plenty of meanings. My inspirations are deeply rooted in myself. Each process of creation is for me like setting a bird free from the cage. I’m trying to search for inspiration every day, reach the deep feelings hidden below the surface of appearances. Pull them out from behind the window pane. That’s the reason – why in my painting only my hands are the tools, why in photography I apply tight views and extreme close – ups, why I use the multiplication and repetition element. Thanks to that, a sort of space is created, where the artist gets really close to his projects. It is a permanent record of fleeting sensations. This release from naturalism is a real struggle between the forces of creation and destruction.
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