Joan Painting

Bea Filipowicz (b. 1992, Poland), visual artist, printmaker & painter. She lives and works in Wroclaw where is employed as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, where she received her MA in Printmaking (2017) at prof. Przemysław Tyszkiewicz’s Intaglio Studio and graphic design at ad. Tomasz Broda’s Illustration Studio (Award of the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodship for the Best Diploma of the Year 2017). Besides her solo presentations in Poland, she participated in various group exhibitions abroad. In 2017 she participated in collective international printmaking project ずれた – Zureta – The Misprint, at the Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo and exhibited in 6th Guanlan International Print Biennal in China In 2016 she has exhibited in several group exhibitions in Poland and abroad including: ‘The Young in the Museum. The Top Level ‘, National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland (2016); After Eden’, LATARKA Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. She exhibited her painting on the final show of 14th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015). Beata Filipowicz is an artist who works in painting and experiments with traditional printmaking. An author’s edition opens the possibility of changes in the content and language of the works. Her creative process is guided by intuition where imagination, coincidence and automatic drawing, play an important role. In the Fields of Possibilities series she express great admiration for the structure of the world, explores phenomenon of life and nature from universal and personal perspective. Her ideas has different source that often refers to eastern philosophy and observations of contemporary physics. The area of her interest is metaphysics, she believes in G. Chirico’s words: ‘Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.’