KAROLINA PTASZKOWSKA
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In my works I generate automated internal subject matter for the paintings and drawings, forming a mutual relationship, and feeding off each other by means of content and material limitation.
Oozines, diffusion, crusty, almost sculptural surfaces, poures, and soft staines lead to the construction of form; but also become a mode of inquiry of what is in the process of being made. The interaction between the language and the pictorial prompts disruptions; allowing for an extension and renewal of formalism in opposition to excesses imposed on the pictorial matter.
I consider my studio as a spectacle arena, where I aim to host a grand celebration that confronts the bombastic powers of the sun scorching the earth and propelling me into a state of rapture. Conversely, I also embrace the concept of the moon as a vehicle for contemplation, using it to gaze upon and explore. I insert myself into this visual representation, balancing my own identity against the world’s imbricated meanings.
Asserting the original unity of man-as-the-universe in the dissolution of duality (microcosm/macrocosm), I want to create a version of the world, both as realism and allegory; paint a landscape, and a painting of the landscape – a frame-in-a-frame - capturing it as it happens, with superimposed containers of language - weird ideas, buildings, people that I’m looking at or thinking at that exact time.
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Born in Nowy Sacz, Poland.
Lives and works in Bristol, UK.
CV
EDUCATION
2019-18 and 2017-16 Turps Banana Art School, Correspondence Course / London, UK
2010-2005 Academy of Fine Arts, MFA in Painting / Warsaw, PL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
> Bite; group show; SVA; Stroud (UK)
2022
> There's a real world outside; group show curated by Mark Conolly; Paint Talk & AHWNN Gallery, Ostend (BE)
> Diverse Pleasures; group shop curated by Ben Risk; Art at Alison Richard Building, Cambridge (UK)
2021
> Spelling; Galeria XX1; Warsaw (Pl) (solo)
> Painters Posting Paintings; group show curated by Joe O’Rourke, online
2020
> Residency Show; The Garage; Bristol (UK); (solo)
2019
> Garbage Pail Kids - group show curated by Kurt Beers, TopaintersTopaintings, online
> Cosmic Fishing - group show, Kosar Contemporary, Bristol (UK)
> Another Time, Another Place - group show curated by Adam Hedley, Bocabar, Bristol (UK)
2018
> Sightings - group show curated by Phil Root, Caraboo Projects, Bristol (UK)
> Paper Cuts - group show curated by Kristian Day, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)
> Places Faces and Spaces - group show curated by Hedley Roberts; New Art Projects, London (UK)
2017
> Paper Cuts - group show curated by Kristian Day; Tripp Gallery, London (UK)
> 'EBC015' Painting and Drawing - three-person show; East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol (UK)
> We Are The Ones vol.1 - group show; CGK, Copenhagen (DK)
> Pay & Display Prize 2017 - group show selected by Daphne Wright & Beatrice Haines; Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (UK)
2016
> Bath Open Art Prize, FaB Festival - group show, 44AD Artspace, Bath, (UK)
> Hatched Plans - group show; Nest Gallery, Bristol (UK)
2015
> After-Images (Po-widoki) - three-person show; BWA Sokol Gallery, curated by Malgorzata Miskowiec, Nowy Sacz (PL)
2014
> Underneath It All - solo show, Hamilton House, Bristol, (UK)
2012
> Painters’ Night - group show, Praca Gallery, Szpitalna 6, Warsaw, (PL)
2011
> Start to Hangart - group show, Klima Bochenska’s Gallery, Warsaw, (PL)
> Diplomas at Lubelska - group show, Lubelska 33/22, Warsaw, (PL)
2010
> Active Side of the Unreal- The Final Show, ASP, Warsaw, (PL)
2009
> Modzelewski and His Students - group show, Kierat-1 Gallery, Szczecin, (PL)
2007
> Class No. 66 - group show, Young Artists’ Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
> Ptaszkowska & Yerka - two-person show, Gallery 011, Torun, (PL)
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES:
2020
> Bricks Bristol Micro Commission
> Residency - May-July; The Garage; Bristol (UK)
2019
> Longlisted for Beers Annual Open / Summer Marathon 2020
> Shorlisted to the ‘South West Showcase Open Call’, Gallery at Plymouth College of Art (UK)
2016
> Axisweb September Artist of The Month
> Shorlisted to the ‘South West Showcase Open Call’, Gallery at Plymouth College of Art (UK)
PRESS / FEATURES:
2022
> Art Licks Magazine, issue 27
2018
> ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 7 (print)
2016
> Axisweb Artist Of The Month, 2016
ARTIST TALKS:
> 2023 - Visiting Artist Talk, Bath Spa University, Bath (UK)
> 2022 - Visiting Lecture, Bristol School of Art, Bristol (UK)
> 2021 - Scratch Lab, visiting artist, Caraboo Projects, Bristol (UK)
> 2018 – Sightings Round Table, artist talk alongside Phil Root and Ross Taylor, Caraboo Projects, Bristol (UK)
> 2017 – Meet the Artists, artist talk alongside Michael Ditchburn, Felix Carr and Karanjit Paensar, East Bristol Contemporary Gallery, Bristol (UK)
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