Kinga Czerska

Czerska sees the world composed of an intense amount of connections and information that the mind processes, with never ending amount of nuances and details. Hers is a world ever in motion. In her work, she flattens everything in front of her into one plane analyzing its contents. As the world restructures by shifting and undulating she captures the brief moment when it is stable just before another shift occurs.

Czerska devotes her time to the study of patterns and structures found all around us: in architecture, engineering, flora and fauna, stars and galaxies, the human body and psyche. Understanding the intricacies of the natural and manmade environments and the phenomenal detail that allows for each piece to fit creating a graceful, precise, 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 all as the elements interlace, change, shift, and reconfigure.

Throughout her earlier career Czerska lived in 8 major US cities and was immersed in studying different subjects thus her work reflected this environment as she created flowing and undulating hard edge abstraction. Culminating in a commission of a 400-foot mural by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at 50 West Side Highway in New York.

At the same time Czerska felt the calling to explore remote areas by hiking, backcountry skiing, rock climbing etc. and it is once she started heeding the call when her work changed as she discovered natural beauty, silence and stillness which is far more intricate and chaotic, but yet beautifully balanced.

Czerska began to focus her attention exclusively on the interaction between light, energy and rhythmic balance, moving away from the flat hard edge abstraction of her earlier career. She desired to go beyond the surface, both materially and conceptually, by shattering the flat shapes and in so doing unearth the hidden energy and structures that lie beneath the seemingly stable outside layer.

Czerska needed to capture these depths and to do so she had to change the way she worked. To understand the woven fabric of this new world for 4 year she dove into weaving, wood sculpture, ceramics, basket weaving, knitting, ribbon work, glass, and metal. As her exploration continued it became clear that painting was her first and true love, but to express her new found language her painting style had to change. Czerska knew what she wanted to create, but it took months of exploration to create a technique that would be suitable to her new vision.

To produce works that emanate this intrinsic energy from within, Czerska employs an almost engineered architectural approach. The paintings comprise of multiple translucent layers of paint and textures on wood panels as she builds the interior structure. In this first phase the painting lives solely in her mind as all that is there is hidden as each layer covers up the one beneath. Once she is satisfied with the interior world she then begins to mine what she knows lies hidden – by meticulously removing sections of layers. What is unearthed is an infinitely elegant, intricate world pulsating with energy and light. As she keeps working the surface, she builds out new spaces, a linked unified environment, each element coactive with the other.

The resulting meditative works are enigmatic, balanced, subtle and atmospheric, both in the visual nature of the paintings themselves, and in how they interact with the surrounding space: the type of light, the quality of light, even the time of day can impact the viewing experience. These highly complex works slowly reveal themselves upon the viewer’s patient, even intimate consideration.

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 in the US, Europe, Caribbean, Australia and throughout Asia. In addition, she has been awarded several public commissions and attended prestigious Residency Programs, including Art/Omi and

International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York.

Born in Krakow, Poland in 1973| Works between Seattle, New York, and Aspen.