Patricia Friday, Strangers IV, 2020

oil on canvas, 40x50 cm, signed on the back "Patrycja Piętka 'Strangers IV' 2020".

Patrycja Piętka, born in 1998, graduated from the General School of Fine Arts in Katowice. In 2017, she began studying at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She is currently on her fourth year of painting in Professor Miroslaw Sikorski's studio and her first year of stage design, trying her first hand at realizing student film etudes. She has collaborated with galleries in Krakow. She took part in exhibitions: "PUZZLE" in Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) as part of the Polish Culture Week, 2019; "At a stretch" as part of Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2019: SKOK KRAKERS,2019; "Drawing About Drawing-Black on White. 200 Years of Drawing at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts" organized by the National Museum in Cracow. In 2019, she received an honorable mention in the 3rd Winter Youth Salon at Zofia Weiss Gallery and an honorable mention in the CALL4ARTS2019 competition organized by the 4Style Foundation. The artist is interested in the theme of night, restlessness and melancholy feelings. She also draws her inspiration from film culture, following the psychology of the characters and the specifics of building tension, as well as the symbolism and understatement hidden in the layers of reality. In her canvases, she walks with quiet steps through night streets illuminated by single window lights, as well as travels by train through the evening forest wilderness. He follows the lives of animals after dark with night vision, trying to understand the mood of oppression and horror hanging in the misty air. The world of childhood fears hidden in the basement is intertwined with an emotional nature whose instincts are as untamed as our own.