Karolina Ptaszkowska
Karolina lives and works in Bristol, but was born in Nowy Sacz (Poland). She gained her MA from The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2010 and in recent years, she was enrolled on the Turps Art School Correspondence Course.
Karolina works across painting and installation and articulates poetic, inter-subjective dialogues. It results from myriad sources: psychoanalysis, linguistics, the mundane as well as art history and pop culture.
Karolina’s works mirror painterly sensitivity defined by vitality, drama and sign-tracing. She highlights physicality and psychology of the painterly gesture. She asks a question if the image has a body, and if yes – is it a social, a physical or a psychological one. Ptaszkowska addresses these aspects in various layers of her practice.
Works
The Food Must Come in or the Fire Be Put Out
Naive to the Bone
ongoing series of works on paper and papier-mache trays