Joanna KARPOWICZ (b. 1976), Car by the Beach, 2011

acrylic, canvas; 70 x 100 cm;
signed, dated and described on the back:
"CAR ON THE BEACH" / 70 X 100 cm, acrylic on canvas / JOANNA KARPOWICZ / "SAMOCH.D PRZY PLAŻY" / 70 x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas / IK w prostokącie / 2011.
Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, diploma 2001 in the studio of Prof. Leszek Misiak. Lives and works in Cracow.
Important individual exhibitions: LA Woman, Artemis Art Galery (Cracow, 2017); Anubis, Raven Gallery (Cracow, 2016); I Want To Believe, Zamek Cultural Center (Wroclaw, 2014); Anubis, my friend, Łącznik Gallery (Cracow, 2013); Means of Locomotion, Cafe Szafe (Cracow, 2008); Room 666, Galeria Nova (Cracow, 2003). Comics and albums with illustrations by the artist: Lipstick, by Jerzy Szyłak, Mandragora Publishing House, 2003; Tomorrow There Will Be Fur, Atropos Publishing House, 2005; Postcards from Białystok, Ludwik Zamenhof Center, 2013; Acid Apple, by Jerzy Szyłak, Timof Comics Publishing House, 2017; Anubis - artbook, Centrala Publishing House, 2017; Anastasia. (I), by Magdalena Lankosz, publisher: Culture of Wrath.

"With my heart I am close to the voyeur Hopper and other charming guys with character: Beckman, Buffet, Hockney. When I paint, I evoke ghosts with whom something connected me. Things that were or are, I show in fictionalized terms, fidelity to reality is a secondary issue for me, emotion, the mood of the moment becomes more important. I often turn my paintings to films, literature, music. In the painting I do a lot is from illustration - and vice versa. I like night views, light painted from the point of view of darkness. I like the false sense of security that artificial light creates. I try to recreate that impression on canvas. I'm inspired by being on the road, the lethargic world of the night shift - small towns, roadside bars, motels, the emptiness of a hotel lobby. The leitmotifs return stubbornly: falling snow, embers and cigarette smoke, cars, palm trees, urban neon signs. The interpretation of a scene is left to the viewer, in the hope of creating a completely separate, new, personal story."
Joanna Karpowicz