Dorota Dziong

BIOGRAPHY

Oil paint on canvas is my method of work. I tend to use, in equal measure, both paint and thinners as parts of paintings in the creative process. This method emerged through acute awareness of the danger of being too attached to an image or its part. Through trying to rid myself of that attachment, a method of adding paint and erasing it with thinner surfaced.

Although aesthetically organic as final piece, my work is deeply rooted in urban landscape and environment. Constant intentional, man-made aesthetic corrosion is a characteristic of the style. It is an expression of both the personal melancholy as well as the sentimental search for beauty within a city dweller.

Working on a body of work, which I refer to under the common title ‘Along these lines’, I took a step towards simplification of subject matter and allowing an even greater dialogue with the materials (paint, canvas and thinner). Here you will find lines which can be described as horizontal or vertical and are therefore relatively similar to one another yet, at the same time, they wobble and twist within their boundaries, each being different. I work with lines created with a brush and with those made as thinner was poured over a wet painted surface. A line is an endless metaphor, it is the passage of time, it is a heart beat, a road, a vein, a root, and so on. The route the line takes speaks most directly to the sensibility of the hand which guides it. Finally, it finds home in the eyes of those who share in this unspoken sentiment.