In this episode, I talk with Richmond, Virginia based painter Agnes Grochulska. We discuss her relocation from Poland-where she was born-to the United States, taking a long hiatus from art-making to raise a family, the life of Alice Neel and being a female artist and much more.
From her website: Agnes Grochulska is a contemporary realist painter working mainly in oils. She also enjoys creating drawings in graphite and charcoal.
Agnes studied design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. She currently resides in Richmond, Virginia, and her art can be viewed at the local Eric Schindler Gallery. Since becoming a full -time artist in 2016 her work has been shown among others, at galleries in New York City, Denver, Miami, local galleries in Virginia and abroad.
A solo exhibition of her work took place at Eric Schindler Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, May 2019.
Recent exhibitions include NOMAD St. Moritz, Switzerland with John Wolf, and “New Waves 2020” at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art curated by Susan Thompson, an Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum.
Agnes’ work has won several awards and has been published in the Artist’s Magazine, Drawing Magazine, Artists on Art Magazine, and others. Her drawings and paintings have been shown and privately collected throughout the US and Europe, most notably the Del Cerro Family Collection and the DaLuz Collection.
New work can be also found at her regularly updated website, Instagram, and Facebook accounts.
Agnes is interested in a broad spectrum of themes and subjects in her art. She is drawn to the human subject with all the emotion, meaning, and importance that only the human form can carry. Another idea she likes to explore is the landscape around her, trying to capture the essence of the place.
Her upcoming exhibitions:
* NOMAD St.Moritz curated by John Wolf, Switzerland, February 2020 * New Waves 2020, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, March 20 - August 16, 2020
