Originally from Poland, Beata Chrzanowska has lived most of her life in Chicago. She got her BFA at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design where she studied Integrated Studio Arts with a focus in painting and drawing the human form. Since then she has migrated to New York where she continues an active career in the arts painting from her studio in Queens.
Simple Math, 27″ x 33.75″
Before her move to New York she had participated in multiple shows and organizations all around Milwaukee. Among those were Jackpot Gallery, Foxglove Gallery, Gallery M, and the Borg Ward. In New York she had the opportunity to work for the artist Mickalene Thomas on her Brooklyn Museum and Lehmann Maupin shows. She also had the chance to show at Fowler Arts Collective, ArtHelix Gallery, and recently had her first solo at Muchmore’s Gallery.
Beata’s works are compositionally, chromatically and geometrically conscious. They are puzzles that she builds from a single figurative line drawing. Once the first colors are placed, every additional color is affected until a compositional balance is created. The work exists to demonstrate a non-traditional execution of the flesh, arising attention to the moments she finds most intriguing and inviting the audience to experience that same driven thrill through the femme.
House, 10″ x 12″
Beata is thrilled living and working in NYC. She moved to the city less than a year ago and the work she is producing is an encapsulation of her experiences thus far. From the dark phase that consumed the work upon arrival to the city with only a suitcase and a box of acrylics to the new found realism and succulent colors that are surfacing at this point of her career, her work is truly a self-portrait through the painted flesh. Her most recent work “Simple Math” is a sarcastic approach to the complexities of life. In the work she is pushing the idea of female sexuality by candidly bringing attention to the sex. Through color and geometry, such a complex composition of the flesh is broken down and made to look “simple”. The work represents an important checkpoint for the artist, now comfortable and familiar with the city, working as an artist assistant to Jeff Sonhouse and knowing “the ropes” of the Big Apple, the world is her oyster, and what better place to be than that NYC.
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