Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Dorota Kuźniak "Nausea" from the series "Kitchen Passions" 2020'.
Exhibited
"Seven Stages of a Woman's Life. Paintings by Polish women artists", group exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Art in Lodz, Lodz, 23.09-13.11.2022
Biography
She mainly practices oil painting on canvas and board. Graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, where in 2016 she received a master's degree with honors in the painting studio of Prof . A. Dymitrowicz and multimedia studio of Prof. W.Pukocz. Graduate of German Philology and Postgraduate Studies at the W. Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wroclaw. Author of many solo exhibitions, and participant in group exhibitions. Nominated in 2015 to the second stage of the Painting Contest "POSITIONS" for the most interesting artistic attitude among students of the faculty: Painting at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. She is a laureate of Honorable Mention in the 27th National Youth Painting Review "Promotions" in Legnica and a finalist in the 5th Triennale of Contemporary Painting "Autumn Confrontations", Rzeszów 2019, where she was among 15 artists nominated for the award. Winner of an honorable mention of the Podkarpackie Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts 6th Triennale of Contemporary Painting "Autumn Confrontations", Rzeszów 2022. Two-time finalist of the 4th and 5th All-Polish Leon Wyczółkowski Painting Competition. Leon Wyczółkowski in Bydgoszcz in 202020 and 2022 , finalist of the 1st All-Polish Painting Competition named after Krzysztof Grzesiak, Pressure Tower, branch of the Museum in Lębork. She has participated in the YICCA International Contest of Contemporary, as well as the 16th Warsaw Art Fair in Kubicki Arcades and the 18th and 19th Warsaw Art Fairs in EXPO XXI Warsaw-International Fair and Congress Center.
The main subject of Dorota Kuźnik's paintings is a woman. The essence of these female images is an attempt to depict what makes up femininity, defines it, determines its status, social and cultural condition and the roles it plays in the contemporary world. In the wide range of female images, the figure of the androgynous woman occupies next to the mother woman and the theme of motherhood and the idea of sisterhood and sisterhood. In addition to the subject matter depicting motherhood , she also creates a positive model of femininity realized outside of motherhood. In the images of seemingly silent women, shown in stolid poses, there seems to be hidden an attitude opposing being a victim of destiny, a vocation to fulfill the social role of mother and motherhood ascribed to them , as the only legitimate possibility for the realization and manifestation of their femininity.
The embodiments of femininity present in her paintings are portraits of women, in which she does not focus on rendering a vision of conventional beauty, but rather on shedding attributes considered feminine. Entering into dialogue with post-feminist discourse, she attempts to reinterpret the concept of femininity in painting based on model representations of femininity, ideal, objectified representations of woman traditionally depicted in images of women in painting, thus redefining the position of women functioning in their traditional socially and culturally assigned role. She willingly reaches for subversive strategies. However, this is not extreme feminist interventionism and activism.
