Kate Lipecky, Materia,2022, aluminum, wood, dimensions: 62 x 23.5 x 23.5 cm, unsigned.
BIO:
She was born in 1984. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, pursuing a diploma in painting under Prof. Teresa Kotkowska-Rzepecka and an annex in sculpture in the studio of the dean of sculpture, Prof. Józef Murzyn. In 2008, she completed a photographic project from the set of the film , "The Mill and the Cross", directed by Lech Majewski. Since 2014, as part of Kate Lipecky - The Sculpture Foundation, she has been supporting artists' activities in the market, striving to popularize and improve access to knowledge about visual culture and its traditions. In 2015, her sculpture was exhibited at the Museu Europeu d'Art Modern in Barcelona. The artist's works are in the permanent collection of the National Museum in Gdansk and in art collections in Poland, Dubai, Belgium and Lithuania. Her sculptures have been exhibited at the Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, the Mark Rothko Art Center in Dyneburg, Latvia, and the Arty Cube gallery in Vilnius, among others. In 2019, she won the national competition "Jutronauts" organized by Gazeta Wyborcza and Kulczyk Investments. In her work, she balances between classicism and avant-garde, and draws inspiration from various eras.
