Joanna Salska

Prayer

2018

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...

Up There She Turned 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 ...

Is This The One? 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 pa...

To Leak The Sea Salt Abstract With Sunflower 2018 Pencil signed, title and dated. Joanna Salska was born in Poland and received her MFA from Warsaw Acade...

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'Towards Le Scathe Cove'. Contemporary mixed media landscape painting, Cornwall Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ January morning, heavy swell and a strong southwester, rain imminent, sheltering beneath lichen furred granite outcrops. A plein air painting from the series 'Holan ha Dor' (Meaning 'Salt and Earth in Cornish). West Cornwall is a harshly beautiful peninsula, jutting out into the wild tireless ocean, shaped and moulded by powerful salt laden Atlantic winds, and criss-crossed by ancient, tangled hedgerows. Drawn to the immediacy of moments, underpinned by enduring narratives, Sophia's fluid expressive paintings explores the flux and balance in the nature of all things: The freedom of the air and solidity of the soil; Of anchored stone and rhythmic water; Of human narratives written in the wild landscapes; In the sensual interplay of light and shadow. They capture an essence of the equilibrium between wild raw energy and serene stillness; chaos and harmony; and the enduring and the effervescent. Mixed media on watercolour paper Signed and inscribed Unframed 23 x 30cm / 9 x 12 inches __________________________ About The Artist Sophia Milligan is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, exploring discourses on permanence & evanescence; the eternal, cyclical absolutes of birth & death; motherhood & childhood; and ancient immutable connections. With resonating ripples of intuition and instinct Sophia illuminates the presence of the ordinary, creating moments of sublime present. 'Born among the wild cliffs and tempestuous seas of west Cornwall, I grew with the intimate details in the twisting lanes and the intense changing light throughout the turbulent seasons. I formed a primordial connection with a deep instinctual sense of being part of the natural narrative, and wherever in the world I may be, this connectivity underpins my practice. Like the wind sculpted hawthorns and sensual coves of weather worn granite, I have been shaped by the powerful energy entwined in this ancient raw environment.’ ‘We are the stories of the journeys that came before. I weave into my work the tales of transitory circumstance; of struggle and survival; of forms and textures holding records of evolutionary millennia. I paint, I draw: with marks, mixtures, photography, words; the raw earth; the restless oceans; the whispered breeze. I work with time, and the immeasurable spaces of experience within, giving subtleties of existence a pause for contemplation. There is beauty in such poignant breaths. All moments are significant, every pebble of now forms the vast mountain of yesterday, and the great realm of tomorrow's possibilities'. Sophia has a 1st class honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Arts and World History, and a Masters Degree in Contemporary Visual Arts. Her work is held in prestigious international private collections, and exhibitions of her interactive, immersive installation, photography and mixed media works include 'Tabula Rasa', London; 'Superlative', Plymouth; 'Transition', Newlyn; The Eden Project, Cornwall; The European Parliament, Brussels; Kew Gardens, London; and 'The Cameraless Film Festival', Chicago...

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