Maria Kozak is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in upstate New York and Warsaw, Poland. Her drawings and paintings are are intuited, psychological landscapes where figures exist beyond conventional boundaries of time, space, and fixed identity. Driven by existential inquiries into the nature of reality, Kozak's work embraces the full spectrum of human experience—from the sacred to the profane. Descended from a long line of dowsers, alchemists and Polish mystics, she believes in an undercurrent of energy creating and connecting all things. She tries to capture these subtle frequencies in an effort to make the unseen, seen — the unconscious, conscious. Her work is characterized by dissolving forms, layered narratives and ambiguity. It draws from German Expressionism, Surrealism, psychedelia and the transavantgarde.
Her work is found in collections nationally and abroad and has been mentioned in Artsy, the Wall Street Journal, Cool Hunting and Paper magazine. She has shown most recently at LETO Gallery in Warsaw, Dreamsong in Minneapolis and The Detroit Public Library. She was awarded a NYFA /NYSCA Grant and a Schusterman Foundation Fellowship for her work in emerging technology. She has a Master’s degree in painting from the New York Academy of Art and is an alumni of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art + technology. She is also currently the Editor-at-large of Przekrój, Poland’s oldest culture magazine.
For more information please email maria@mariakozak.com
