Young shoots,oil on canvas, 30 x 24 cm, 2021. work signed.
Joanna Mlącka was born in 1981 in Minsk Mazowiecki. Between 2005 and 2010 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She defended her diploma with rector's honors in the painting studio of Prof. Jaroslaw Modzelewski, and an appendix in photography in the studio of Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski. In 2009, as part of the Erasmus program, she studied at the Vysoká Škole Výtvarných Umení in Bratislava. She received a prize named after Prof. Jozef Szajna and a distinction from Ewa Tomaszewska for her thesis in 2010. She is a laureate of the ENTRY Initiative Award in 2011, a finalist of the 11th edition of the nationwide GEPPERTA: Attention Painting ! competition and a scholarship holder of the City of Warsaw in 2013. She regularly presents her works at group exhibitions. She is the author of several individual exhibitions, among others, in Promocyjna Gallery, Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Korekta Gallery, Gallery (-1) of the Olympic Center in Warsaw. On the subject of her work has been written, among others, in the quarterly "EXIT new art in Poland", the monthly "Businessman", as well as in the book "Guide to galleries. The art of investing in art. Volume 3". Joanna Mlącka works in painting and photography. She finds inspiration for her works in the real world from which she borrows shapes of objects and plant motifs, combined with her own vision, strips them of their original function and gives them a new meaning. The works are often complemented by suggestive titles. In the formal layer, he operates with saturated color, varied matter and high realism. The constructed objects are often suspended in surreal space. Her paintings are a metaphor of reality described by symbols and signs of objects. In her works she addresses the nature of man and his environment.
