Joanna Zochowska, Edmonton
Member Since November 2018
Artist Statement DR JOANNA ŻOCHOWSKA
VISUAL ARTIST
about me https://zochowska.wixsite.com/joannazochowska
webpage http://zochowska.com
artworks https://www.instagram.com/zochowskacom/
exhibitions https://www.behance.net/zochowska
Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts, sculptor and painter living in Canada
2017 - PhD in Fine Arts
She successfully graduated on Academy of Fine Arts in GdanSk in Sculpture and perfomance profile with "Theory of the mask" which refers to the exploration of the phenomens such as desychronization of "I" in contemporary culture, conception of "idol". The first sketches she drew were in 2004 during practice in Atelier De Mempenti in Marseille in France. In 2010 she received a master's degree specialization - sculptural shaping of space at the University of Silezia in Cieszyn.
2014 - Award for creativity in Visual Arts
In 2014 the artist has received the award for the overall creativity given by the President of the Union of Polish Artists in the 3rd Visual Arts Festival in the BWA Bielsko-Biala Gallery in Poland
2017 - Encyclopedia of Personalities of the Republic of Poland
Artist was honored to be in Encyclopedia of Personalities of the Republic of Poland as an artist with lots of achievements on social ground such as performer, visual art creator and doctor of art.
Her art is famous in Poland and Czech Republic. In their collections her art keep and expose local museums and prestige galleries such as Museum of Art History and BWA Gallery in Bielsko-biala.
STATEMENT
The artist says about her artworks: they are an interpretation of human mind. I transform people's soul on the medium, telling a story about their life and emotions.
ART CRITICS SAYS:
"The main theme that the JZ revolves around, is an attempt to express deep mental states through its physicality, by materializing them in all kinds of deformities and the transformation of its physical structure. The artist is looking for original and non-trivial form and presentation of the beauty of the human body, arguing against the idealized and superficial image of body present in pop culture and in the media. Specific to some of her paintings is kind of a monumentality of body, characteristic to baroque marble statues." says Polish critic Szczawinski after interviewing Zochowska on the radio Katowice.
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