WHAT
The Department of Visual Arts and Technology at San Antonio College presents 
“Cumuli and Other Clouds,” an installation of imprinted and hand-painted gossamer fabric panels by artist Maja Godlewska.

Her unique approach towards painting combines European styles while reaching back to the Renaissance with a twenty-first century sensibility. Godlewska explains, “Bodies in my paintings simply become cloudlike shapes, dissolved into organic textures or stains and drips.”

Born in Poland, and now an Assistant Professor of painting at the University of North Carolina, for the past 20 years Godlewska’s work, from painting to photography, has shown around the world.

WHEN and WHERE
Artist Lecture:
Tuesday; Sept. 16, 2008
11 a.m.- 12 p.m.

Opening Reception Follows the Artist's Lecture

Exhibition: 
Sept. 15-Oct. 22, 2008
The VATC Gallery is open during normal campus hours.

The Lecture, Reception and Exhibit are free and open to the public.

WHERE
San Antonio College
Visual Arts & Technology Center (VATC)

VATC is on the San Antonio College main campus
950 Lewis St. @ Dewey St.

 WHO
Born in Wroclaw, Poland, Maja Godlewska earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, before continuing her education at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland.  Subsequently, Godlewska moved to West Africa for two years, an experience that greatly shaped her early work.  Since 1997 she has made her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she is Assistant Professor of painting at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. 
 
Godlewska's primary medium is painting, but she also is an installation artist, photographer and graphic designer.  Her lecture will address, specifically, her installation in the VATC Gallery and, in general, her unique approach towards painting, a philosophy that combines European styles reaching back to the Renaissance with a twenty-first century sensibility.  “Leonardo da Vinci advised artists to look into the formless — such as clouds and stains — in search of form and composition," Godlewska states. "I am attempting to reverse this process, searching for chaos and for the formlessness in what we assume is defined and familiar. Bodies in my paintings simply become cloudlike shapes, dissolved into organic textures or stains and drips.”

Over the past two decades, Maja Godlewska’s work has appeared in 24 solo and 48 group exhibitions in United States, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Ukraine, Poland, South Korea, Indonesia and Chile.  Many of her pieces are also included in the permanent collections of municipal, regional and corporate collections worldwide.
 
CONTACTS  
SAC Department of Visual Arts & Technology, 210-733-2902