Magdalena Kwapisz Grabowska

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The Artists about herself / himself:Magdalena Kwapisz-Grabowska, paints with the utmost sincerity, acknowledging the magic and communicative power of her creativity. Kwapisz-Grabowska’s painting focuses on the construction and deconstruction of the human figure and consciousness. Bodies that are rendered in an almost topographic fashion are splayed out across the picture. Using a chalky, limited palette Kwapisz-Grabowska creates human forms that are sculptural yet flat, anonymous yet familiar. Her art explores our world, our personality, and our vision of ourselves. She employs a particular distortion that delivers an everyman to her audience, an intimate humanoid vessel representing the spirit of any one of us. Expressively posed figures overlap and coalesce with limbs that curl and turn back towards the body. Large expanses of color are rendered with a chiaroscuro forming cavernous shadowy pockets that draw our awareness in. These areas are complemented by the ambling scrawled linework that add definition to the composition. Her paintings have been exhibited in Germany, Poland, and the United States. Kwapisz-Grabowska lives and works in Hamburg. by Art Mine Agora Gallery