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TO BE TITLEDagaTa czErEmuszkIn-chruT

TO BE TITLED

This is the first presentation of Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut’s works made exclusively on paper. These works, like the other large format paintings by the artist, are an insightful study of the complex structure of the human - both on the natural and spiritual level. By choosing the appropriate means of artistic expression (such as deaes-theticization, deformation, schema-tization, geometrisation) the painter creates a world that provokes the viewer to explore the realm of human experience, which is usually pushed into the background or is completely overlooked. It is all about emotions and relationships. About loneliness, being lost, misunderstood and the internal heroic struggle inside us. Czeremuszkin-Chrut strives to capture all of this in her neo-figu-rative art whose basic assumptions have been processed into individual language of expressional painting.

The focus of Czeremuszkin-Chrut is the individual, with all of their com-plexities, human life, alienation,

emotions and anonymity, which she then transforms into her paint-ings. They are also all biological processes, physicality and energy, which are transformed into paintings, which is not intentional and planned, but rather subconscious, sensual and intuitive.

This art is not autobiographical, but universal. The artist doesn’t want to impose her own rigid interpre-tation. The sense of presentation is only gently being suggested by enigmatic titles. This is because Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut appre-ciates freedom, not only her own but also the recipient’s. As she said “I avoid over-intellectualizing, I do not like to fill my art with gibberish information, socially or politically correct”. We will not find literal and obvious messages in these paintings, but will be allowed to read them individually – and that will make them more reliable. After all, when dealing with art, this is considered a superior value.

Kama Wróbel

WORKS

24h, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2012

3 legs, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2014

Girl, mix media on paper,30,5×23 cm, 2013

Hunters, mix media on paper, 30,5×23 cm, 2014

Ground, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2012

I can’t walk, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2010

I don’t need you, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2010

2×2, mix media on paper, 30,5×23cm, 2014

Landscape, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2013

Laziness, mix media on paper, 35×23 cm, 2014

Light Green, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2012

Runner, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2014

Spine, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2014

Strange, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2011

Too much love, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2011

Uniform, mix media on paper, 30,5×23 cm, 2014

VLP ON, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2011

Yellow, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2014

Water&Sand, mix media on paper, 32×24 cm, 2011

BIOGRAPHY

Agata was born in 1983 in Poland. She graduated from the High School of Fine Arts (Czestochowa, Poland) with a specialization in Graphic Design. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw this year with a Master’s degree in Painting. She has participated in several art events in Europe and North America. Her paintings can be found in many private collections in Belgium, Great Britain, Poland, Austria and the United States. Agata’s works do not have any philosophical or theoretical background. She purposefully tries to eliminate everything which is only an attachment to the painting and its quintessence, and to achieve a pure sense of each work.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 – Paper - Canvas - Wall , MOSART, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland

2013 – Minimalisation, 022 Gallery, OW ZPAP, Wroclaw, Poland

2012 – Body language, Agora Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

2012 – Beds, Elektor Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2012 – Zmysły Sztuki, Museum – Palace in Wilanow, Warsaw, Poland

2011 – Skin on skin, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA

2009 – Relations, Jazzownia Liberalna, Warsaw, Poland

2009 – Write letters, Dluga Gallery BOK – Boleslawiec, Poland

2009 – Paintings, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 – Interference, Polish-German art project, Sokolnicki Fort Gallery, Warsaw,

Poland

2013 – Nord Art, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Schleswig-Holstein Germany.

2013 – The Third Triennal of Polish Contemporary Painting, BWA Rzeszow, Poland

(nominated for a prize)

2012 – Wave, Baltic Art Gallery, Koszalin, Poland

2012 – Art n’Bloom, Brussels, Belgium

2011 – Within young figuration, Platon Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

2011– Spring Benefit-Kaleidoscope, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, USA

2010 – The second Triennal of Polish Contemporary Painting, BWA Rzeszów, Poland

2010 – The Marian Michalik IV Competition for Young Painters, City Gallery,

Czestochowa, Poland

2010 – Triennal of small painting forms, Torun, Poland

2010 – Intimacy, Flying Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2009 – Contemporary figrated themed works, winter show in EC Gallery with

T.Bilecki, Chicago, USA

2009 – Reflections, Polish Center of Wisconsin Gallery, Franklin, WI, USA

2009 – Paintings: Body, Object, Texture” EC Gallery, Chicago, USA

2008 – Bloom project, Brussels, Belgium

2008 – Podwodny Wroclaw” Festival, group exhibition, Browar Mieszczanski,

Wroclaw, Poland

2008 – BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, graduated exhibition, Poland

2008 – 127m2 of painting – realization of mural painting in Browar Mieszczanski,

Wroclaw, Poland

and more..

EDUCATION

2011–2012 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (postgraduate – education)

2008 – M.F.A. Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw

2003 – 2008 Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (painting department)

2007– Edinburgh College of Art- scholarship UE Socrates-Erasmus

1998–2003 Art College, Czestochowa, Poland (graphic design – publishing)

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2011 – selected to Studio Visit Magazine – spring 2011 edition

2007 – Around the Coyote, Curator’s Choice (curated by Shannon Stratton),

Chicago, USA

2007 – Education grant from City Hall Wroclaw

2007 – Art grant from City Hall Wroclaw

Publisher E|C Gallery 215 N. Aberdeen | Chicago IL 60607 P. 312.850.0924 www.ec-gallery.com CuratorEwa Czeremuszkin Photos Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut Anna Nosowicz

Graphic designKama Wróbel

Agata Czeremuszkin-ChrutTo be titled01–03.2014E|C Gallery215 N. Aberdeen|Chicago IL 60607www.ec-gallery.com

Agata Czeremuszkin-ChrutTo be tited