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Artist Statement:
One may define an artist as a
human being who is forced to
be truthful.
An artist’s conscious
intentions are always at the
mercy of inner necessity. An
artistic growth, is more then
anything else, a refinement of
this sense of truthfulness.
A painting is after all “ an
artist’s mind realizing itself
in colour and space “ . And so
every work of art symbolizes
an infinite background of
thought and feeling.
I feel most real, most
truthful to myself, in my
studio. After several years of
interdisciplinary studies and
practice I found that abstract
painting is my ideal vehicle
of expression. As many of the
relations that a painter
grasps are non-verbal, the
abstract language has become
for me a way to explore an
interior life of feeling and
thought. I wish to create
paintings that have a powerful
presence, yet at the same time
are inwardly tuned, as one is
faced with this depth and this
fragility.
I tend to work in a series,
developing a body of work
challenged by an idea or an
image I am trying to resolve.
Working in a sequence places
meaning within the dialogue
between paintings and allows
for an accumulative ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
current exhibitions:
Win Henstock Gallery,
Oakville, ON, Canada - Two
person exhibition, with Jacek
Rudnicki.
Galerie d'art Bellattitude,
Quebec City, QC, Canada
Summer Show
Hollander York Gallery,
Toronto, ON, Canada - Summer
Exhibition Gallery Artists
Westend Gallery, Edmonton, AB,
Canada - Summer Exhibition
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Artist Galleries:
Hollander York Gallery,
Toronto, Canada
www.hollanderyorkgallery.com
Westend Gallery, Victoria and
Edmonton, Canada
www.westendgalleryltd.com
Galerie d'art Bellattitude,
Quebec, QC, Canada
www.bellattitude.com...
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Agnieszka Rudnicki Biography:
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| Your Personal Biography |
Agnieszka Rudnicki was born in Torun, Poland, in 1974.
Her early childhood years were strongly shaped by dance and music classes, piano competitions, music recitals and public dance performances.
In her formative teenage years, Agnieszka was engaged in creative movement theater, drama group, poetry readings as well as she received her first formal art training. At that time she also travelled extensively throughout Western Europe, absorbing its beauty, architecture and art.
Agnieszka arrived in Toronto, Canada at the age of 18. She developed a portfolio of drawings, paintings and black -and-white photography and got accepted into the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1994. Her imagination and creativity simply blossomed in OCAD’s stimulating environment as she’s taken an interdisciplinary approach to learning and studied such varied disciplines as figure drawing, sculpture / installation, textile / fibre arts, ceramics, metal smithing, photography and art history. Agnieszka graduated from OCAD in 1998 with a Medal of Excellence and a number of scholarships and awards.
Since 1999, together with her husband,Jacek Rudnicki, also a painter, she’s maintained an art studio in a northern part of Toronto, focusing exclusively on full time painting practice. Agnieszka works within the genre of abstract painting, as she finds the non-verbal, image-free communication with the viewer / observer most challenging and most satisfying. Her most influential painters belong to the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, particularly Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, but so does a reclusive and minimalist Agnes Martin, experimental Gerhard Richter, as well as Quebec’s Automatistes group of painters.
“ I tend to work intuitively, passionately and truthfully. I allow the painting to lead me into a unknown direction, I allow myself to get lost in it, to fight with it, to find myself through it . Every single time the process of searching and finding is genuine and uncompromising, often it is emotionally and physically exhausting.
I build a painting through many layers, which in a way reflects my philosophy for life: we all are an accumulation of layers of experiences, passing through the materials of our bodies. Sometimes I disturb the surface of the painting, scratching, rubbing, destroying and revealing what’s hidden underneath, as happens in life, too. In a way my paintings are a metaphor for life itself.
I take my concentration, intensity and strength to create from the disciplines of yoga, shotokan karate and lately shodo ( Japanese calligraphy ), as I believe that the path to creative growth leads through sustained and relaxed concentration and a calm mind. Shodo teaches me the importance of visual thinking and mental training, where a sense of rhythm and emotional expression as well as technique are of essence. Shotokan karate and yoga calm my mind and help me develop inner discipline, which in turn allows me to push the boundaries of my paintings towards yet unchartered territories of expression and form.”
Agnieszka’s paintings appear in private collections across North America and she has gallery representation in Toronto, Edmonton, Victoria and Quebec City. |
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