AGNIESZKA PRAXMAYER is a Polish-French artist born in Cracow.
Graduated from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France;
Lives in Europe and USA. Has an art studio in Sykesville,Maryland and Cracow, Poland.
Specialized in commissioned portraits, produced for private clients as well as for institutions and television productions, for example: Tv series Highlander.. She favors a variety of mediums including oil and acrylic paints applied with both brush and with palette knife; oil pastels; ink and collages. Her inspiration comes mostly from travels and nature.
-> Citation from the book'Nature Art Today 2010':
'Inspired by her travels, Ag.Praxmayer has an ability to reinterpret the ordinary and present it to us in an array of colors, textures and abstractions. She uses natural light to great effect and under her skilled artistic ministrations, we catch tantalizing hints of the Mediterranean, e.g., Capri island, Naples, etc. The artist's milieu is nature: birds, leopards, aquatic life, coral reefs. There is a delightful tension in her work - the ability to use metaphor and make it come alive on canvas; the skilled use of juxtaposition that effortlessly expresses the inextricable relationship between beauty and its opposite, between chaos and harmony, between the harsh and the sublime.
The artist writes: 'In everything that is beautiful, there is the pull of that which is not.'
In reference to coral reefs and the diving subjects, the artist's work is a metaphor of the contemporary human search for freedom and the fear of the unknown. '
SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
- 1993 - Banque CL, Miromesnil, Paris, France;
- 1997 - Absurd et realite', Galerie Herouet, Les Marais, Paris, France;
- 2000 - Agora Gallery, Soho, New York, USA;
- 2005 - Galeria Temporary Contemporary, Cracow, Poland;
- 2006 - Galeria Bronislaw Chromy, Cracow, Poland;
- 2006 - Galeria Dom Polonii, Cracow, Poland, 2006;
- 2010 - Washington Theological Union, Washington.D.C.,USA;
- ArtExpo New York 2011, USA;
- Business Art 2011, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France;
- May 2012, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Washington D.C., USA,
- Dec 2012, The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, USA;
Selected GROUP EXHIBITION:
- Prixeurope 90, Ostenda, Belgium;
- 14 Salon International Jules Verne, Nantes, France;
- Del Bello Gallery, Toronto,1990, Canada;
- Fondation Sinaide Ghi,1992,1993, Roma, Italy;
- Hof de Bist, Antwerpia, 1992, Belgium;
- Biennale Sacrum'92, Opole, Poland;
- 10th Biennial for Sport in the Fine Arts - Barcelona,1992, Spain;
- Ekologia'95, Radom, Poland;
- 'Images against Aids' - Centre Pompidou,1996 Paris, France;
- ' Salon Jesienny'97', Palace of Arts, Cracow, Poland;
- ' Blue Collection', auction organized by UNESCO for the benefit of the UNICEF;
- The Triennial of Polish Drawing, Lubaczow,1999, Poland;
- 'The World's Women On-Line' by Arizona State University 1999-2000, USA;
- 2nd International Biennial Pastel Exhibition, Nowy Sacz 2004, Poland;
- ' Mini Art' - Strasbourg's Parliament 2005, France ;
- 'Marynisci' - marines at Ustka and Cracow, 2006, Poland;
- Salon 2007 des Artistes du 20e - Paris, France;
- Marynisci- marines, 2008, Galeria Kotlownia - Cracow;
- Salon ZPAP 2008, Cracow, Poland;
- Exhibition 'Paintings inspired by music'- Palace of Arts, Cracow, Poland, 2008;
- Salon ZPAP 2009, Galeria NCK Nowa Huta , Cracow ,Poland ;
- Marynisci - marines 2010, Cracow, Poland;
- ArtExpo New York 2011, USA;
- 2011, Business Art 2011, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France;
- ' Women in the Arts 2011'- Miami, USA;
- Salon 100 years of ZPAP in Cracow, 2011, Poland;
- Salon Artec 2012, Musee Matra, Romorantin, France;
- Marynisci - marines ,2012 Cracow, Poland;
- Marynisci - marines , 2013, Cracow, Poland
- Krakow Art Expo, 2013, Poland;
- Franchement Art, Citadelle de Villefranche sur Mer, 2013, France.
- Salon malarstwa i rzezby ZPAP, 6 mars- 13 avril 2014, NCK, Krakow,
- Marynisci, ( marines ), Krakow, 2014;
- Salon zimowy ZPAP, 2015;
- Marynisci w Krakowie, Dom Polonii, Krakow, 2015 i Chrzanow- MOKSiR, 8 stycz-25 luty 2016,
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Agnieszka Praxmayer joined Pixels.com Licensing on February 24th, 2012.
