Creating canvases laden with emotion and personal feelings is for the Katarzyna Gajewska necessity, obsession and addiction. Believing in instinct over reason, she is starting over with every painting. The relation between value of colour and texture is her formula for expressing her vision. The effect of the feeling’s complexity is doubled by the works chaotic texture. Trying to contour human silhouette in bold structure on the surface, she is exploring the physical expression of the theme. The paintings give direct attention to their own physicality and because of that, the human form emanates with psychological structure, driving to the insubstantial. Colour and texture are symbols.
Some parts of the paintings are abstracted because of the elusive nature of our feelings. Some of the paintings are open – ended, which constitutes effects of saving suppressed emotion. Some of the paintings represent the form threatened and squeezed. Most of them require many sittings as the sudden realization or impatient result can be possible only by accumulated understanding of the theme. Very often using hands to model paint on canvases and boards, she is transferring feelings and reactions in a very physical way.
place & year of birth
Warsaw, Poland, 1978
featured galleries
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
solo exhibitions
2007 “Paintolepsy” Droichead Arts Centre, Co.Dublin, Ireland
2007 “Letters from All Seasons” Cavan Arts Office, Co. Cavan, Ireland
2008 “La Vie en Rose”, Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
group exhibitions
2008 “Between Dreams and Documentation”; the Kenny Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2009, Figures and Portraits, Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin,Ireland
2009, Nouveau Vadge,The Back Loft, La Catedral Studios,Dublin, Ireland
bibliography
“Katarzyna Gajewska - Art of Happiness”, Hiro Magazine, February 2007
“Painting – releasing activity”, Rita Baum, issue 11, ISSN 1429-852X, index 366129, Autumn, 2007
“It’s all in her hands”, Metro Éireann, June 21, 2007
“Artist in Residence”, Words Cian Fitzsimons, Synergie Magazine, Spring 2008
awards
2004-2005 Ministry of Culture Scholarship, Poland
Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry, Summer 2005 Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry, December 2005
Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry Dec 07-Jan 2008
Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry April 2009
Some parts of the paintings are abstracted because of the elusive nature of our feelings. Some of the paintings are open – ended, which constitutes effects of saving suppressed emotion. Some of the paintings represent the form threatened and squeezed. Most of them require many sittings as the sudden realization or impatient result can be possible only by accumulated understanding of the theme. Very often using hands to model paint on canvases and boards, she is transferring feelings and reactions in a very physical way.
place & year of birth
Warsaw, Poland, 1978
featured galleries
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
solo exhibitions
2007 “Paintolepsy” Droichead Arts Centre, Co.Dublin, Ireland
2007 “Letters from All Seasons” Cavan Arts Office, Co. Cavan, Ireland
2008 “La Vie en Rose”, Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
group exhibitions
2008 “Between Dreams and Documentation”; the Kenny Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2009, Figures and Portraits, Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin,Ireland
2009, Nouveau Vadge,The Back Loft, La Catedral Studios,Dublin, Ireland
bibliography
“Katarzyna Gajewska - Art of Happiness”, Hiro Magazine, February 2007
“Painting – releasing activity”, Rita Baum, issue 11, ISSN 1429-852X, index 366129, Autumn, 2007
“It’s all in her hands”, Metro Éireann, June 21, 2007
“Artist in Residence”, Words Cian Fitzsimons, Synergie Magazine, Spring 2008
awards
2004-2005 Ministry of Culture Scholarship, Poland
Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry, Summer 2005 Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry, December 2005
Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry Dec 07-Jan 2008
Residency Award Cill Rialaig Project Co. Kerry April 2009
