MONIKA GLOVICZKI
Initially inspired by Impressionist art, Monika Gloviczki modernizes her work by incorporating elements of abstraction and reportage. While she often approaches her paintings with a scene in mind, she allows her instincts and imagination to take over. Her artwork can be described as a form of silent music, a symphony played by pigments to form a harmony of composition and color; a song describing deeper layers and moving beyond the banalities of everyday life to reveal what is extraordinary.
Gloviczki was born in Poland, but spent most of her adult life in Paris, where she earned her MD and PhD degrees and worked in the medical field. Gloviczki’s artistic education began at an early age with her father, Stanislaw Kazmierczyk, a Polish painter and illustrator, who taught her the basics of drawings, gouache, and oil painting. She also took drawing and painting classes in Warsaw, Paris, at the Ateliers du Carrousel du Louvre, and later in the US. Gloviczki has garnered recognition for her art, exhibiting regularly in the US, but also in France, Italy, and Azerbaijan. Among her shows the most notable are her annual exhibitions at Agora Gallery in New York, NY, from 2016 to present; three exhibitions at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery in Milano, Italy in 2021; the Art 3F Art fair in Paris from 2018 to 2020 and the 19th Salon International d’Art Contemporain in Paris, in 2016. She currently lives and works in Scottsdale, Arizona as a full-time artist. Her works belong to private and public collections in the US and in France.
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Painting is the essence of my life, an unexplained necessity to express something that I feel or imagine. It is like a journey to the deeper layers of the self, under the banalities of the everyday. It is a silent melody played by colors. As Georgia O’Keeffe said, “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.” My international journey brought me from Poland to France, and finally to the United States, where I was able to fulfill my dream of becoming an accomplished and fulfilled artist. I always create with music, mixing inspiring sounds with an image or vision of a painting. I let the music and the paint talk to each other and I feel like a reporter of this conversation, fully immersed in this flow. The painting’s vision evolves constantly as I work on the piece, until I feel satisfied with the result or too tired to continue. Another day might bring the solution. I play with photographs of works in progress, trying different angles, turning them upside down, zooming in and out, or using versions in different colors or in black and white. Very often it takes me months to finish the painting and I have several ongoing projects in my studio.
