Natalia Tarnawa

Bio
Natalia Tarnawa, born in 1983, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław in 2007. Graduated in painting at the studio of prof. A. Dobrzaniecki and with an annex to the diploma in graphics from prof. Ch. Nowicki and dr. M. Warlikowska. She lives, works and creates art in Wrocław. Currently the artist deals with graphics and acrylic painting. Main themes are landscapes and memories from travels. Graphics are multi-colored and multi-level, reduced linocuts.

Statement
I mainly deal with graphics and acrylic painting. My central theme and motif is the landscape and memories from travelling. I focus on discoveries of undeveloped spaces between painting and large format printmaking. I combine the liberty of color patches with the illustrative quality of linocut lines, often supplementing them with experimental media. I also create series of small, acrylic pictures, in which I show the multiplicity of impressions of a single landscape. The results are the extremely vivid colors and the richness of shapes, highlighting the organicity of painting material, which is the paint. I draw inspirations from journeys, then referring in my works to beheld landscapes and elements of local, folklore traditions and cultures.

Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Faculty of Painting (2007)

Individual exhibitions:
2014 Printed memories. Natalia Tarnawa - exhibition of paintings and graphics – Hannover
2014 Written on paper. Natalia Tarnawa – icons exhibition – Nysa
2014 Mirages – Summer Flowers, Otmuchów
2014 Machinæ. Art of machines, machine of art. Exhibition of graphics – Macondo, Wroclaw
2011 Flying memories – Museum Nysa
2008 Natalia Tarnawa – Individual exhibition in Salon NGA 2008 – Nysa
2006 Imponderables and Pools – Polski Theatre, Wroclaw
2003 Natalia Tarnawa – Individual exhibition – Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw

Group exhibitions:
2014 390th Anniversary of Carolinum, Graduates Exhibition – Nysa
2008 Window of Art Exhibition – Ludinghausen, Germany
2008 Let’s Talk – An Exhibition of Emerging Art – Chicago, USA
2007 Bridge. The exhibition of young art – Warszawa
2007 Graduates 007 – Awangarda, Wroclaw
2007 V Biennale of student graphic – Post-competition exhibition – Arsenał, Poznań
2006 Mural on the building. Taming the post-communist architecture on blocks of flats – Oberstdorf, Germany
2006 Exhibition of graphic art. Studio 414 – Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw
2005 Exhibition – Dolsk
2005 Exhibition of drawings. Studio 212 – Wroclaw
2004 Exhibition – Polanica Zdrój