merkuria / Joanna Merkuria Czerwinska
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(born in Poland, works and lives in Seattle) visual artist and award-winning illustrator with commercial graphic design experience, who combines elements of printmaking, drawing and painting in two-dimensional space; graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, earning a MFA with a major in Graphics Arts (2016). She has shown her work i.a.: Gallery 110 (Seattle), Canvas Event Space (Seattle) and Gallery MC (New York).
In my artistic practice I focus on human psychology and its condition. I try to understand human emotions, their way of thinking, theirs behavior, interactions of individuals, but as well as their relationships with the reality.
I collect everyday life. I choose essential and quite insignificant elements. Then I close them in two-dimensional space. They are often out of the context, or occurring in a new seemingly illogical connections.
This is the way I put new order in the surrounding me reality. I make an attempt to understand and reconcile the dual nature of things: rationality and irrationality.