Marta Boros

Marta Boros aligns her pop art with a woman’s view of the world , By James Brewer

Pop artist Marta Boros pursues the twin and sometimes combined tracks of painting and poetry. Her work has qualities that at various times are mysterious, intriguing, challenging and erotic, splashed and collaged on the canvas in vivid colour.

Warsaw-born Marta is making her name in London at a time when, as she says, “people are buying more and more pop art. Contemporary design and art is taking inspiration from pop art. Look at Swedish art, look at American contemporary design.”

Many of her heroes have never been more popular: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Tracey Emin for a start. In particular, one can see how she must have been influenced by the approach of Tracey Emin, who famously describes her practice as one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration, and whose website refers to her work as having “an immediacy and often sexually provocative attitude that firmly locates her oeuvre within the tradition of feminist discourse.”

Marta shares boldness in graphic images with Lichtenstein and Warhol. The difference is that her images are of unqualified honesty rather than parody. She sometimes includes extracts from her poe...

Faculty of Fine Arts, Warsaw.

Espacio Gallery, London.
The Gallery at Willesden Green, London