Magda Chmielek, Black Leaves I

Black Leaves I, 2020, Magda Chmielek

Linocut

100 cm x 70 cm

39 1/3 in x 27 1/2 in

About the Artist

Magda's floral forms bounce, collide, and coalesce across the canvas. She is traditionally informed by modernist paintings and digital image production. She achieved the mastery in making prints that pulse and vibrate through a considered choice of tonal values and combinations of natural and artificial colour. She expresses herself through fast, deliberate and subtly off-kilter compositions.

Her collages, in turn, are Pop-art-influenced being crafted from found images manipulated and juxtaposed into new concordances. In her last series, slices of faces from models headshots are overlaid atop others to create disconcerting hybrids. Other sources include popular magazines, and book illustrations, showing Magda's interest in workaday imagery forced to go beyond its essential purpose.