Gosha Karpowicz, Intervallum XXXXI, powdered pigment and oil on linen. 48”x34”, 2021
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Gosha Karpowicz’s paintings invite the viewer into a mysterious and enticing world of color.
The subtle veils of layered paint behave like the mystery of time cloaking memories, forming and inventing new encounters. Colors continuously transform from within, confessing their sensitivity to light and darkness and asserting themselves in brilliance, all while still displaying gentleness and fragility.
Karpowicz’s paintings arise out of conjuring interactions of color fields, ultimately illuminating the relationships between them. The alluring reference to the lines of horizons becomes an evocative image of both the known and the unknown, with no beginning and no end. The paintings’ surfaces contemplate space and time through colors dividing or connecting, allowing their implied vastness to dictate form. The ephemeral mood of her paintings speaks to the dreamy yet solemn quality of human yearning for meaning.
Karpowicz’s inspiration comes from Eastern and Western philosophy, from master painters such as J. M. W. Turner, and from observing the fleeting quality of the ever changing world of nature. In her work, Karpowicz tends to her need to find poetic expression to articulate human experience.
In a world where stillness is rare, Karpowicz’s paintings rely on the moments of quietude. They offer the viewer a space to pause and reflect on their own experience.
About the Artist:
At a young age, Gosha Karpowicz was compelled to leave her home country of Poland, then part of the Communist bloc, to live and paint where freedom of expression was encouraged and respected. Karpowicz arrived in the United States as a political refugee, soon graduating with a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC in 1985 Karpowicz exhibits internationally. Her solo show will be hosted by Anthroposophical society in December 2021 NYC, and a group show “Permanence of Art “ in September In Katowice, Poland. In June 2022 she has plans to travel to a group show in Germany The Syker Vorwerk:, Bremen, Ge “Connection Concrete “. Her few recent exhibits were at The Interchurch Center NYC, Village West Gallery Jersey City NJ. Museum of Contemporary Art “Electrownia”, Poland. Hopper House, Nyack, NY amongst many.