Irma Michaela Szalkay

"I have recently been introduced to your work, and I must say I'm very impressed. It's an interesting blend of Pollock and Rauschenberg..."

From: Robert M. Berry
Senior Curator | Icosahedron Gallery 2011

"žThe modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world; in other words, expressing the energy, the motion and other inner forces," Jackson Pollock once said. Contemporary artist Irma Michaela Szalkay creates colorful mixed-media masterpieces exploring art's physical, mental, and emotional dimensions, reflecting those meanings together and in depth. Fascinated by the way the paint and colors and different materials interact with each other, Ms. Szalkay has developed her own revolutionary style which she describes as Reflexionism: a process which starts with a theme, from which the artist will imagine that theme's "žphilosophy of shape", or the way the work's form interacts with its message. The artist collects pertinent material and creates a mental concept and plan for visualization of the theme.
Ms. Szalkay often paints in "Cycles:" theories on philosophical themes, exploring ideas such as chaos, cognition, entropy, hope, and love. The colors, materials and structure of her paintings are intended t...

Irma received her Ph.D. 1993 from the University of Graz, Austria. Painting has been a lifelong pursuit of hers. While studying in Graz and in Vienna, she started activities as an artist with charcoal, verre eglomise technique, collages, installations and acrylics with mixed media in her leasure time. She visited museums and galleries all over the world, reviewing and studying all types of art.,