Barbara GAWĘDA-BADERA (1969), Meeting; 2022

Acrylic, canvas; 150 x 120 cm
Signed, dated, and described on the back: "Meeting" acrylic on canvas 2022 Barbara Gawęda - Badera

Work exhibited at the exhibition "Buddha's Gardens" Barbara Gawęda - Badera and Piotr Lutyoski at Galeria Otwarta pracownia - Krakow 2022.

Graduate of the Art Institute of the Silesian University, Branch in Cieszyn. Diploma in painting under the direction of Prof. Jerzy Wronski. Winner of an honorable mention in the 33rd National Painting Exhibition Bielska Jesien. Scholarship holder in the international artist-in-residence program at the North Wales School of Art and Design in Wrexham, UK. She participated in two editions of the exhibition "Woman about Woman", a presentation of works by well-known Polish women artists, at the Bielska BWA Gallery. Her name appears in the publication "Women's Art", edited by Jolanta Ciesielska and Agata Smalcerz, published in 2000 by the Bielska Galeria BWA. She participated in the project "The most dangerous brushes", a presentation of young Polish painting, which resulted in an exhibition at the Ksawery Dunikowski Museum, "Królikarnia" Palace, in Warsaw, and a publication with the same title, edited by Agnieszka Rayzacher and Katarzyna Swiezak, published by the National Publishing Agency. The artist's works have been exhibited, among others, in Zameek Książąt Pomorski - Szczecin, Galeria Bielska BWA - Bielsko Biała, Galeria Miejska Arsenał - Poznań, Królikarnia - Warsaw, Ksawery Dunikowski Museum - Warsaw or Galeria Otwarta pracownia - Cracow. The painter's works can be found, among others, in the collection of contemporary painting of the Museum of the Sułkowskis' Castle in Bielsko-Biała or in the Collection of the Bielska Galeria BWA, as well as in numerous private collections.
Currently, the artist's works are a continuation of her consideration of space as a "frame" that delineates private territory, in the chaotic, random reality of the interior. Objects become props among which people function, being in an often accidental relationship with each other. In the series "Events" he takes up anew the obsessive theme of the encounter with oneself.