Space 4 (2019) Painting by Albertyna Kacalak

My work reflects my attraction to wide-open spaces, and the transitional variations of layered colour found stacked within these large expanses. Is inspired by the natural world. Its beauty and its cruelty. Its paradoxes and its contrasts.
I paint everything I can find. My language is a time-intensive process of putting down thin layers of paint over a textural surface. I organize, disrupt and balance the forms with subdued color, distilling my encounters into visual experiences.
I begin each composition with a small study on paper; at this stage, my intuitive spontaneity is key. When my process leads me to a finished study, I record in my notebook the color recipes, the development of the color application, and the measurements for each change in the composition. The final painting then takes on a different course of ordered and conscious specificity, in an attempt to capture what was found in the study, completing a process that is directed by chance and intention.
It's all connected to emotions, experience. I observe the world around me, and I try to realize it on canvas.

• Nationality: POLAND
• Date of birth : 1988
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• Groups: Contemporary Polish Artists