ARTISTS STATEMENT
I approach art-making as a way of processing what’s happening in my life and relationships. Since becoming a parent, my identity, my needs, and my experience of the world have shifted tremendously, as has my work in response. My priorities have become the needs of those I am caring for. Intermittently caring for my mother as she is living with metastatic cancer, I’m also striving to raise my young daughter full of joy and wonder while aiming to best support her in overcoming or adjusting to her developmental disabilities. I have turned to ceramics as the medium to convey some of the unpredictability of both those situations, but also as a way to reflect on and memorialize moments in time, both the joy and struggle of it.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Luiza Kurzyna is a Polish- American artist, based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at Every Woman Biennial, AIR Gallery, Art in Odd Places, Kunstraum Gallery, Governors Island Art Fair, Outlet, New Britain Museum of American Art, LoBo Gallery, Chashama, and many others. Her solo projects include the BRIC Garage Door Video Series and +/- Project Space at Soho 20 Gallery. Kurzyna has received support through residencies and fellowships including Ox-Bow, I-Park Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, ChaNorth, the Contemporary Arts Center, BRIC Media Fellowship, and the Brooklyn College Teaching Fellowship. Kurzyna has served as an artist mentor for the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program, as a teaching artist for numerous children’s and community programs, and teaches at Parsons the New School for Design.
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