Gregg Welz

Red Currents

2016

Once I Was Ordinary 2018 Pencil signed, title and dated. Joanna Salska was born in Poland and received her MFA from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. She is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. Passionate about political and social issues, she often touches these subjects in her art. Salska's paintings remarkable achievement is the creation of a sustained emotional effect despite multiple narrative tensions. There is a sense of quiet power, of emergence and beginnings, of wisdom against an anticipated struggle. Sometimes she uses pseudonym “Uba Owl” in her practice. Joanna Salska as Uba Owl has created a foundation of a new artistic direction which she calls "Alterrealism.” It is an interdisciplinary movement connecting arts and sciences. The main purpose of Alterrealism is to describe a hidden reality in a world dominated and determined by new mass media Her work has been shown at Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, Allrich Gallery, PII, Roszkowska Galleries and others. She was invited twice to Beijing Biennale, and her paintings are in many collections, including Beijing Museum, Pamela Bonino, Yaddo Foundation, Washington Museum of Women in the Arts, and many other private collections. EDUCATION 2017 Enrolled in PHD program in Studio Art at Warsaw Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw, Poland M.F.A. in Painting and Graphic Arts, Warsaw Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw, Poland. Studied with Ludwik Maciag and Tadeusz Dominik. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Galeria Wizytujaca, Warszawa, Poland 2017 Galeria Apteka Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland Roszkowska Galleries, Hudson, NY 2016 PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA 2015 Mercury20, Oakland, CA Roszkowska Galleries, Hudson, NY 2014 Mercury20, Oakland, CA 2013 Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA 2012 PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2011 PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery, Lambertville, NJ 2009 PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Vintage Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Atelier Studio Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 Event Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1999 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 1992 Corvallis Arts Center, OR South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR 1990 Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, CA Cerro Coso College Art Gallery, Ridgecrest, CA Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA John Ash...

"By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/presen...