Katarzyna Gajewska
Contemporary Portraitist.
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Katarzyna Gajewska
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Katarzyna Gajewska (b.1978)
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Biography Katarzyna Gajewska was born in Warsaw, where she grew up alongside her brothers Stanislaw and Jakub in a house filled with books, paintings and sculpture. Her father was an art historian, her mother an editor with a publishing house, and art and aesthetics were regular dinner-table topics. She began drawing and painting as a child - much like other girls might play with dolls - and went on to spend much of her youth copying Old Masters like Caravaggio, Giorgione and Titian. In 1998, she graduated from the State Secondary Art School in Warsaw, and began showing her paintings and graphic works at group shows in Germany and Poland. In 1999, she won a place at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, from where she graduated in 2003, after which she enjoyed a series of solo shows in the Polish capital (2003-5). In 2004, she was awarded a Ministry of Culture Scholarship, and in March 2005, she received a Masters in Fine Arts from the Academy, before taking up a residency at Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland. |
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Now established as a full-time painter in Dublin, Gajewska has enjoyed a number of highly successful solo exhibitions, and has shown widely in group exhibitions throughout Ireland and internationally. Her works are represented in private collections in Ireland, England, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. As An Artist Gajewska works with oils and enamels as well as mixed media on canvas, using only her hands to apply paint. Being so close to her work makes it a sharper but also a more toxic experience - she has poisoned herself with fumes more than once!! However, it's a passion that dominates her life. As she says: "I am happy if I can paint; if I cannot, I am very unhappy." |
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Her portrait art is perhaps her most consistent genre, and include a series of canvases on iconic women like Marlene Dietrich and Sophia Loren. However, some of her subject paintings, like the deeply satirical Communists, can be equally powerful. Unlimited Potential Judging by her works to date, I think Gajewska has the technical skill and the vision to become a great artist. She has that rare gift of being able to endow common subjects with uncommon significance, while at the same time creating something of real beauty. I hear that her works are selling like hot cakes, even in today's recessionary climate and, frankly, I'm not a bit surprised. |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions Further Information To contact Katarzyna Gajewska, or to see more examples of her wonderful paintings I strongly recommend that you visit her website at: www.katarinagajewska.com/
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