Elaine Pawlowicz exhibit at Gallery Artist

Elaine Pawlowicz’s exhibit “Cosmos Series 2013” is at Gallery Artist. She says, “The style of my painting is magical realism where the space is flat with an idiosyncratic perspective. I am consciously developing my aesthetics within the tradition of the Chicago Imagists, Modernism, landscape painting, graphic arts, and Surrealism. I am searching for new ways to tell my stories by experimenting with composition, scale, and repetition. I am interested in the peculiar qualities found in the mundane.” The objects she chooses to paint are both heroic and pathetic. The Cosmos series has been an ongoing project for the past five years and are each radial in design. “This group of paintings was inspired by a recent artist residency in rural Portugal. Each painting utilizes graphic, sci-fi images of geology, outer space and the ocean floor along with suburbia images to describe human vulnerability and spiritual redemption. I am interested in how the global human spirit can survive terrible natural and psychological disasters and still find the will to move forward.”