Kinga Czerska sees the world composed of an array of connections and information, which her mind processes with extraordinary nuance and detail. In her work, she flattens her perspectives into a single plane, analyzing its contents. As what she sees before her restructures, shifts, and undulated, she captures a moment when it is stable, just before another shift occurs, and creates intricately woven paintings that capture the light and movement and energy she sees.

Czerska (pronounced (Churs-skah) devotes her time to the study of patterns and structures found all around us: in architecture, engineering, flora, fauna, stars, galaxies, the human body, and within her own psyche. Understanding the intricacies of both our natural and manmade environments and the way the myriad details found within interlock, thus creating our elegant and balanced world, is her life’s work. Czerska’s quest is to understand how it all fits, what holds it together and, most importantly, how one can affect the whole as the elements interlace, change, shift and reconfigure.

In her earlier career Czerska lived in eight major US cities, as she immersed herself in studying a multitude of subjects. Her work reflects these changing environments, and it was then that she began to create her first undulant abstractions. An early example was a commission, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, of a 400-foot-long mural at 50 West Side Highway in New York.

Czerska then began to feel a calling to explore the more remote areas of the American West, by hiking, backcountry skiing, rock climbing, paddle-boarding, etc., and it was once she started exploring our natural world that her work began to evolve in new ways. She learned that the beauty, silence and stillness of nature is intricate, sometimes chaotic, but always beautifully balanced.

It was then that Czerska began to focus her attention exclusively on the interactions between light and energy and the rhythmic balance between them, moving away from the simpler abstractions of her earlier career. She delved beyond the surface, both materially and conceptually, by dismantling superficial shapes to explore the hidden energy and structures that lie within them.

To understand the fabric of this new world, for four years, in various studios, Czerska studied weaving, wood sculpture, ceramics, basket weaving, knitting, ribbon work, glasswork, and metallurgy. As her explorations continued, it became clear that painting was her first and true love, but to express her new language her painting style had to change. Czerska knew what she wanted to create, but it took years of exploration to create a technique that would be suitable to her new vision.

To produce works that convey this innate, intrinsic energy, Czerska employs her engineering degrees in an architectural approach. Her paintings are comprised of multiple translucent layers of paint and textures on wood panels. She builds deep structures., adding layer upon layer, each covering the one beneath. Once she is satisfied with the strata of this world, she then begins to mine what she knows lies withing by meticulously removing portions of layers. What she, in this way, unearths, is a new, elegant, intricate world, which pulsates with energy and light. As she keeps working the surface she creates new spaces—a linked, unified environment, each element coactive with the other.

Czerska’s meditative works are enigmatic, balanced, subtle and atmospheric, not only in the nature of the paintings themselves, but in how they interact with surrounding spaces and light. These highly complex works reveal themselves slowly.

Czerska has exhibited extensively throughout the US including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Aspen, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Santa Fe and Chicago. She has produced commissions for many collectors across the US, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia and throughout Asia. She has been awarded numerous public commissions and attended multiple prestigious residency programs, including Art/Omi and International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York.

Born in Krakow, Poland in 1973, she works between Seattle, New York, and Aspen