Joanna Sokolowska is the 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of April 2019. She is a painter and sculptor based in Poland. Her artwork is primarily figurative in nature and revolves around human emotions. Through her figurative art, she explores humanity and its dual nature. Joanna’s intention is to move, to touch, and to invite the viewers to reflect and explore the beauty of their own being.

Joanna’s Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of April 2019. The gallery will promote Joanna and her work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,500 collectors, galleries, buyers and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets. Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Joanna’s biography and artist statement below as she describes her history and inspiration in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see her exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Joanna’s work, please visit her website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Joanna’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Joanna and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Joanna Sokolowska‘s Biography

Joanna Sokolowska, born in 1984, is an artist – painter and sculptor from Poland. Her rich education is both artistic and linguistic, both in Poland and abroad. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2013, she studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, USA, where she received her MFA degree in May 2015. Earlier she received Master of Fine Arts degree at the Department of Sculpture – Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2012), Erasmus scholarship at the Department of Sculpture – Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy (2009/2010); MA degree in English Philology at the Institute of Applied Linguistics – Warsaw University (2009); BA degree at the College of English Language Teacher Education- Warsaw University (2006).

International context is very important in her creative path. As a Fulbright Alumni, she travels and creates worldwide spreading the belief in the uniting power of Art, crossing barriers between cultures and divisions. She promotes Art as universal language wherever she goes. In Poland, she has been a Sculpture and Painting Instructor at Warsaw Arts Academy and Officyna Art and Design Gallery. Her works are being sold in a few galleries in Warsaw (Napiorkowska Gallery, Officyna Gallery, Stalowa Gallery). She exhibited her works in Poland (Warsaw, Lodz), Italy (Rome, Tivoli), USA (Vermont, Boston, NY) and Thailand (Krabi, Bangkok). She also attended international residencies and seminars in USA (Vermont), France (St Nicolas du Pelem) and Thailand (Krabi, Bangkok).

Joanna’s paintings and sculptures revolve around the theme of human being, his interior emotions, life, and psyche. The human being, with his dual nature – sensual and spiritual, is her biggest inspiration and focus. Through figurative art she transfers elemental content of human existence that people, in a natural way, may come to read, without knowing the code and cultural context. She combines elements of realism with expressive, emotional quest for power of expression.

As Joanna says, “For me, the human form is like a temple; a sphere of sacrum, which encompassed the richness of emotions and experiences. These states of mind are sources of exploration for me to seek those binding qualities that make us human. Sculpture and Painting is a way for me to convert intangible feelings into three-and two-dimensional forms.”

Joanna’s main intention is to move, to touch, to invite the viewer to reflect and explore the beauty of own being. Her works are evidence of a search for the means of expression that split the self into a dilemma of human experience. Face expressions, gestures, serve as references for form. Her works become “a meeting place” – a meeting with the inner and exterior selves, while at the same time opening up a meeting space with another’s essence.

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