Artiste peintre, Portraitiste
Agnieszka Praxmayer,
ur. w Krakowie.
Ukończyła Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych. Studiowała w Paryżu w Ecole Nationale Superièure des Beaux Arts, Dyplom otrzymała w 1989r.
Przez 13 lat pracowała dla renomowanej Galerie Troubetzkoy, Paris. Miała tam kontakt z wieloma kolekcjonerami dla, których tworzyła obrazy dekoracyjne
oraz portrety na zamówienie.
Od 2003 roku, pracuje jako twórca niezależny, podróżując między Polską, Francją i USA.
Jej specjalizacja to portrety na zamówienie.
Tworzy również pejzaże inspirowane podróżami, wizje podwodne inspirowane rafami koralowymi, pastele, rysunki, collages... Miała wystawy indywidualne w Krakowie, Paryżu, Nowym Jorku oraz Waszyngtonie D.C.
Jest członkiem ZPAP Kraków oraz Stowarzyszenia Marynistów Polskich.
Pracownia: Krakow, Sykesville,MA, USA.
AGNIESZKA PRAXMAYER
Born in Cracow, Poland..
Studied at PLSP - State Art College.
Graduated in 1989 from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France;
Had worked for Gallerie Troubetzkoy, Paris for 13 years.
She divides her time between Cracow, Paris, Nice (Cote d'Azur), Washington D.C.
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. "
EXPOS :
SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
- 1993 - Banque CL, Miromesnil, Paris, France;
- 1997 - Absurd et realite', Galerie Herouet,
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;
- 2011, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Washington
DC, USA;
- 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;
- 2004- 2nd International Biennial Pastel Exhibition,
Nowy Sacz, Poland;
- 2005 " Mini Art'"- Strasbourg's Parliament, France ;
- 'Marynisci' - seascapes at Ustka and Cracow, 2006, Poland;
- 2007 Salon des Artistes du 20e - Paris, France;
- Marynisci- seascapes exhibition, 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 - seascapes exhibition 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, Poland;
- Salon Artec 2012, Musee Matra, Romorantin, France;
- Marynisci - seascapes exhibition,2012 Cracow, Poland;
- Marynisci - seascapes exhibition , 2013, Cracow,
Poland ;
- Krakow Art Expo, 2013, Tomaszowice Dwor, Poland;
- Franchement Art, Citadelle de Villefranche sur Mer,
2013, France.
