Kinga Czerska
My work is a meditation. I see the world composed of an array of connections and information, which my mind needs to processes with extraordinary nuance and detail. My desire is to understand how things fit together and how one small change can affect everything around it. As things shift and undulate in my work I capture a moment of stillness before inevitable change occurs.
Czerska (pronounced (Churs-skah) devotes her time to the study of patterns and structures found all around us: in architecture, engineering, flora, fauna, stars, galaxies, the human body, and within her own psyche. Understanding the intricacies of both our natural and manmade environments and the way the myriad details found within interlock, thus creating our elegant and balanced world, is her life’s work. Czerska’s quest is to understand how it all fits, what holds it together and, most importantly, how one can affect the whole as the elements interlace, change, shift and reconfigure.
Czerska then began to feel a calling to explore the more remote areas of the American West, by hiking, backcountry skiing, rock climbing, paddle-boarding, etc., and it was once she started exploring our natural world that her work began to evolve in new ways. She learned that the beauty, silence and stillness of nature is intricate, sometimes chaotic, but always beautifully balanced.
It was then that Czerska began to focus her attention exclusively on the interactions between light and energy and the rhythmic balance between them, moving away from the simpler abstractions of her earlier career. She delved beyond the surface, both materially and conceptually, by dismantling superficial shapes to explore the hidden energy and structures that lie within them.
Czerska’s meditative works are enigmatic, balanced, subtle and atmospheric, not only in the nature of the paintings themselves, but in how they interact with surrounding spaces and light. These highly complex works reveal themselves slowly.
Czerska has exhibited extensively throughout the US including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Aspen, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Santa Fe and Chicago. She has produced commissions for many collectors across the US, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia and throughout Asia. She has been awarded numerous public commissions and attended multiple prestigious residency programs, including Art/Omi and International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York.
“Destiny”
