Details

First Name

Anita

Last Name

Kucharczyk

Username

anitak

Bio

Anita Kucharczyk (b. 1990) is a Polish-born visual artist currently based in Southern California. Her work explores the properties and perception of light through various media, including painting, installation, animation, and projection mapping.  Immersive, site-specific experiences that investigate the interplay between light, color, and space, are a result of her work. Her practice often blurs the boundaries between artwork and environment, resulting in fully amplified sensory installations undisturbed by external influences.

Kucharczyk holds an MFA in Painting (2015) and an MA in Media Arts (2016) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. In addition to her studio practice, Kucharczyk is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA and works as a Creative Director at The Experiential Co.

Her work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions around the globe including at Lightbox, New York, NY; Gallery Pado, Los Angeles, CA; Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL; Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver, CO; QiPO Fair, Mexico City, Mexico; Horse And Pony, Berlin, Germany; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; The Holy Art Gallery, London, England; Neo Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan; Mona Art Club, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Website

anitakucharczyk.com

Country of residence

United States (US)

Statement

Statement

My subject matter is light. There is something mystical about it—sacred, unknown, elusive. It’s beyond visual experience, even spiritual. Contact with light is very personal and intimate. I strive towards a comprehensive study of light, followed by an ongoing and meticulous examination of color and form in a variety of projects.

Fascinated with the diversity of light, I examine refractive and reflective qualities of objects, surfaces and materials. I look for light in color and composition. Strongly influenced by the Light and Space Movement, I have a deep interest in how the luminous properties of an object alter our perception of reality and how they affect our feelings. Each color and its visual properties carry a specific emotional resonance and—when used properly—can convey a spectrum of emotions to the viewer.

It takes both an object and it’s viewer to make a whole—a unique interaction in time and space. None of my artworks mean anything without a person experiencing them. Unseen work is as if it never existed. Only when the message is conveyed is the work complete.

 

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

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2023

Breathing Room
Gallery Also, Los Angeles CA, USA

2022

Colorbox
Gallery PADO, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018

Impression
Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2016

Body Of Mine
Lutheraneum, Warsaw, Poland

2015

Silence
Galeria Dzialan Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2014

Ordinary – (Un)Ordinary
Youth Community Center, Zyrardow, Poland

Drawing Exhibition
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

Bestiary
Cultural Center, Mszczonow, Poland

2012

Different View
Youth Community Center, Zyrardow, Poland

2011

Painting
Cultural Center, Biala Rawska, Poland

Group Exhibitions

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2024

Collective Show
Hi-Desert Art Center, Yucca Valley, CA, USA

Primary Color
TRYST Art Fair, Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA, USA

NOMAD III Art Show
Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA, USA

Muros Permeables
Hilbert Raum, Berlin, Germany

15 years: Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Bendix Building, Los Angeles, USA

2023

NOMAD II Art Show
Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA, USA

Passage of Time
Supermarket Art Show, Stockholm, Sweden

Brief And Spectacular
Scrantch, Wonder Valley, CA, USA

Strange Worlds: Gardens Of Earthy Delight
QiPO Art Show, Mexico City, Mexico

2022

Tiger Strikes Satellite
Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL, USA

Neo Shibuya TV
30 Seconds Museum, Tokyo, Japan

High Beams No. 6: Convoy
RMCAD, Denver, CO, USA

NFT > One Of A Kinds
Tel Aviv Museum Of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Going Down In The West
Horse And Pony, Berlin, Germany

Oppositions
The Holy Gallery, London, UK

Mona Art Club: Textures
Soho House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2021

NOMAD Art Show
Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA, USA

High Beams No. 4: SPF 405
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA

2020

Creative Code Festival
Lightbox, New York, NY, USA

5th Annual Hold You Foundation
The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Modular
The National Arts Drive, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018

Summer Salon
Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2017

Journey
Styk Sztuk, NIEBO, Warsaw, Poland

2016

Siemens Fine Art Award
Salon Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Side Effects
Community Center, Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland

Area Of Rememberance
Mazovian Museum, Plock, Poland

2015

Coming Out 2015
Kulczyk Silverstein Properties, Warsaw, Poland

Identity
Mazovian Museum, Plock, Poland

Museums At Night
PPA’s Printing House, Warsaw, Poland

39-/ Verbally: Thirty-Nine Minus
Resursa Gallery, Zyrardow, Poland

Structures
Galeria Mlodych Tworcow, Warsaw, Poland

TEAM
Salon Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2014

Chapeau Bas! – Gentlemen, Hats Off
STYK Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Painting
University of Natural Sciences And Humanities, Siedlce, Poland

Structures
Galeria Mlodych Tworcow, Warsaw, Poland

Painting
Museums At Night, Warsaw, Poland

City of Stars Festival
Bielnik, Zyrardow, Poland

Media Arts Department’s 5th Birthday
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

2013

Art Connects
Agrostawy, Bledow, Poland

2012

Art Everywhere
Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Painting
Art Center Performer, Zyrardow, Poland

2011

Public Space Art
Galeria Dzialan Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Structures
Galeria Mlodych Tworcow, Warsaw, Poland

 

Interests and medias

Interests

Painting

Painting medias

Oil