Bożena Grzyb-Jarodzka

A painter, graphic artist, interior designer, connected with Wrocław since her birth. Graduated from PWSSP National High School of Fine Arts on Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Faculty at Konrad Jarodzki in 1984. Together with a group of her year students, her future husband among them she curated the Luxus art group with which she has exhibited to the present day. 

She published drawings and graphics in a magazine brought out by the group under the same name. Her paintings from the 1980s are the images of both contemporary friends, representatives of youth subculture and ideological and philosophical idols of generation of the 80s ( e. g. Dylan, 1988). 

The best known however are her going back to sugary poetics of Hollywood image of cinema heros based on available photographs- the artist truly portrays although perfidiously travesties (Electric kiss, Love will overcome Death, 1988) Florid bright-coloured spots covering canvases suggest psychedelic visions. Colouristic cacophony and the use of kitsch composed specific form of contemporary omnipresent greyness of life and at the same time demonstration of freedom and creative independence of art. The artist has been creating (multi format) big size portraits of real people often settled in a luxuriant, floral background. There is a fascination of Pop-Art in it, oneiric and romance as well, often the starting-point for the paintings is an accidental photograph or a film frame, but always nucleus for a thought about human and his emotions and feelings. The series of artist’s paintings are: Well-knows and Friends, Stars, Good Matches, Favorite artists.