""Black, Yellow, White, dripping", 2010" Painting

Awards 1996 First Prize, Graphic Competition, Warsaw, Poland 1990 Seventh Prize, Soho Art Competition #10, New York, USA 1980-87 Three Grants from Minister of Culture, Poland Biography Maria Sochaniewicz was born in in Gdansk, Poland. In 1970 she entered The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating in 1975 with a Masters Degree of Fine Arts. All of Ms. Sochaniewicz’s work evinces a strong and individual use of color as well as a very personal style that is evident in all of her work - figurative as well as abstract. By the early 1990’s, she had become a purely abstract painter - though her figurative background is still evident in her drawings as a series of sketches “On the Beach”. At the present time, Maria is working on two series: "Strips" – work on paper – and “Dripping” - acrylic on canvas. The latest series of paintings are named "Supernovas". Maria Sochaniewicz was a member of the SOHO20 Gallery for four years, where she had two solo exhibitions and took part in gallery member's group exhibitions. She is also a member of the Union of Polish Artists, Poland (since 1975). She has exhibited her work in several solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Germany, Poland - in New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Mexico City, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Budapest, Szczecin, Radom, Lodz and Warsaw. Her works are represented in many private collections in Europe (England, Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, Poland) and in the USA, Canada, Israel and Guatemala.