Katarzyna Adamiak - Jaśnikowska
Poland
Katarzyna Adamiak - Jaśnikowska - was born in 1985 in Legnica. She is a graduate student of the Eugeniusz Geppert's Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. In 2016, she defended her diploma in painting. In her paintings , the artist focuses mainly on the human being. She has been concentrated on the portraits. She writes about her work:
“(...)I hallow a lot of time to extract a character from the face of the portrayed human.
I patiently put layers of light, I built a portrat that subtly tries to show what is not seen at the first sight in a given person.
These are all spiritual portraits. I create them with a particular sensitivity and intension to capture something more than only physical state of the portrayed person. I try to present not only a physical similarity of the model but also this spiritual element is very important for me – a human being apart from the body has got the soul, as well.
Regardless of our understandig of the very concept I hope that a spectator manges to observe a spiritual side of my paintings. It can sound banal but while working on my portraits I am looking for the same features in my own life, everyday meeting with the other person. I am searching for good and spiritual beauty which everone bears inside their souls. “
The space depicted in the painter's paintings is not a purely realistic convention. We can also find in it a rich metaphorical world, full of atmosphere of mystery and ambiguity. Finalist of painting competitions, many times honored. She presented her works at many juried exhibitions including: „Modportrait 2017” IAACC Pablo Serano, Instituto Aragones de Arte y Cultura Contemporaneos, Zaragoza, Spain and „Modportrait 2017” The MEAM Museum, Barcelona, Spain„Something more than realism … XII”, Zaragoza, Spain; 2014 "5th Nationwide competition for them. Marian Michalik on the Picture for Young Painters "Czestochowa, Poland (honorary mention); "12th International Salon of Art" BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland.
She lives and works in Legnica. Works in private collections in Poland and abroad.
* This statement has been provided directly by the artist in association to their 14th International ARC Salon entries. This content has not been edited for typos or grammatical errors and has not been vetted for accuracy.
