Dimensions: 100 x 80 cm
Signed p.d.: 'P. Taranek.'
signed on the reverse: 'Paulina | Taranek'
Biography
Graduate of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, works and lives in Cracow. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions in Krakow, Warsaw, Lodz and Czestochowa, among others, in the BWA Gallery in 2019 exhibition entitled: "Big City Light". Participant in group exhibitions in Krakow, Warsaw, Czestochowa, among others, and abroad in Brussels, Tokyo, in the international Art Fair in Canada in Vancouver and the USA in San Diego. She is a winner of painting contests, including the National Geographic art contest "I paint what I see - a symbol of the city in the style of Picasso", where she created an award-winning interpretation of the symbol of Cracow - "Lajkonik". The work promoted the National Geographic series "Genius: Picasso" in Poland. Winner of the national painting competition "Zadra" 2012, Jury Award and Audience Award "Magic of the Quarter of Four Faiths" Wroclaw 2013, awarded in the International Competition for the portrait of G. J. Steenke. Scholarship holder of the Erasmus program - Antwerp 2011/2012 and participant of the 2nd International Symposium Szymbark 2013. Honored by Artist Portfolio Magazine USA, California. An article about her painting appeared in the April 2020 issue of Life is Art Magazine USA, Los Angeles Paulina Taranek in 2020/2021 was included among the Faces of the Future of Czestochowa. In 2021/2022, her works were presented at the exhibition "Coexistence" at the Krakow Museum, and in 2022 at the post-competition exhibition of the 12th Triennial of Small Painting Forms at the Wozownia Gallery in Torun, as well as in 2023/24 at the Krzysztofory Palace at the Krakow Museum. She was part of the publication "Women of the Academy" published by the Publishing House of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and her work was published in the glossary "Feminatives of the Academy."
