ELAINE PAWLOWICZ
Cosmos Series 2013
13 Haziran/June - 4
Temmuz/July 2013
Açılış Kokteyli /
Opening Coctail:
13.06.2013 Perş. / Thurs. Saat / Time:18:00-20:00
press release
The style of my painting is magical realism where the space
is flat with an idiosyncratic perspective. I am consciously developing my
aesthetics within the tradition of the Chicago Imagists, Modernism, landscape
painting, graphic arts, and Surrealism.
I am searching for new ways to tell my stories by experimenting with
composition, scale, and repetition. I am interested in the peculiar qualities
found in the mundane. The objects I choose to paint are both heroic and
pathetic. I extract an “anima” locked within the ordinary that describe a part
of our past, current, and future human spirit.
The Cosmos series has been an ongoing project for the past 5
years and are each radial in design. This group of paintings was inspired by a
recent artist residency in rural Portugal. Each painting utilizes graphic,
sci-fi images of geology, outer space, and the ocean floor along with suburbia
images to describe human vulnerability and spiritual redemption. I am
interested in how the global human spirit can survive terrible natural and
psychological disasters and still find the will to move forward. The dark
premise for each painting is reconciled with images symbolizing hope. I can
arrange each canvas like musical notes into a grander composition revealing
many layers of meanings. I inject a humorous, subversive edge into my paintings
to provide contrast, and relief from a solemn premise.
Galeri ARTist
Çukurcuma
Ağa Külhanı Sokak, No: 10/A Çukurcuma / İstanbul
Tel.: +90 212 251 91 63