About Beata Podwysocka
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Education
2005 - 2010
The Higher School of Linguistics in Częstochowa, Poland, MA in English Philology
1984 - 1990
The University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń, Poland, MA in Polish Philology
Awards
2018
Honourable Mention, 3rd International Biennial of Photography SPACE – DEFINITION
2018
CEO's Top Picks
2018
Minimalist Interiors
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2018
Through the Lens
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2018
Decorilla's Picks
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2017
Black and White Magazine Single Image Contest 2017
2017
Black and White Magazine Single Image Contest 2017
2017
Inspired by Kusama
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2016
ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal
2016
Spotlight Award, Black and White Magazine, Single Image 2016 Contest
2016
Black & White Single Image Contest 2016 Award Winner
2016
PX3 Paris
2015
International Photography Awards, the USA
2015
International Photography Awards ‘One Shot: [Home]’, the USA
2015
'Landscape: Sky and Earth', Photo Place Gallery, the USA, finalist
2014
FIAP Best Author of the Salon
2014
International Photography Awards, the USA
2014
International Photography Awards, 'One Shot: [One World]', the USA
2013
‘Shadows’, juried exhibition, the USA, finalist
2012
‘Play’, juried exhibition, A Smith Gallery, the USA, Honourable Mention
2012
International Photography Awards, the USA
2012
‘Imagination’, juried exhibition, A Smith Gallery, the USA, finalist
2012
‘Abstract Expressions’ , juried exhibition, Photo Place Gallery, the USA, finalist (online annexe)
2011
‘Winter’, juried exhibition, A Smith Gallery, the USA , finalist
2011
Gold FIAP Medal, Architecture,7th International Photography Exhibition, ‘Rock 2011', Serbia
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Event: Abstraction
Dates: Jan. 2, 2020 - Jan. 25, 2020
Photography juried exhibition
Event: Minimal Olsztyn
Dates: June 1, 2018 - Aug. 29, 2018
Exhibition of minimalistic photography
Event: LIGHT & SHADOW
Dates: Dec. 17, 2015 - Jan. 19, 2016
a juried international photography exhibition with my photo 'Cyclist' https://pl.artfinder.com/manage/beata-podwysocka/product/cyclist-3e59/ included in the show.
Light and Shadow
A juried international photography exhibition
December 17, 2015 – January 19, 2016
'Creating unique effects with lights and shadows captured by a camera is, according to many, one of the most important means of photographic expression. Photographers have relied on the possibilities offered by the interplay between lights and shadows throughout the history of photography. In some cases lights and shadows are used to the effect of creating a formal compositional element; in others their role is to guide our gaze or focus our attention on specific parts of the image. The ways lights and shadows contribute to photographic meaning only depend on the imagination of the photographer.'
Event: Landscape: Earth and Sky
Dates: Oct. 27, 2015 - Nov. 20, 2015
a juried international exhibition with my photo Dune 4 included in the show
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Event: Unreality of Things
Dates: Jan. 9, 2015 - Feb. 5, 2015
solo photography exhibition
Event: Shadows
Dates: Oct. 4, 2013 - Nov. 9, 2013
a juried international exhibition with two of my photos included in the show - 'Man with Harmonica' https://pl.artfinder.com/product/man-with-harmonica/ and 'Cyclist'
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Event: Cities: All Dimensions
Dates: March 7, 2013 - March 17, 2013
Celebrating urban-living and virtual-architecture the call for entries for "CiTiES: All Dimensions" invited regional and international artists to showcase their deeply personal perceptions of modern inhibiting. With hundreds of entries from across the Globe the resulting show offers the selected artists a prestigious platform for cultural integration and an exclusive opportunity to network with artists and critics in this genre.
Event: Textures and Structures
Dates: Dec. 7, 2012 - Jan. 3, 2012
solo photography exhibition
Event: Play
Dates: June 22, 2012 - July 29, 2012
a juried international exhibition with my photo 'Mary Poppins' awarded Honorouble Mention
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Event: The World According Beata P.
Dates: June 15, 2012 - Sept. 1, 2012
solo photography exhibition
Event: Imagination
Dates: Feb. 17, 2012 - April 1, 2012
a juried international exhibition with my photo 'Shadow Encounters' included in the show
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Event: Winter
Dates: Jan. 6, 2012 - Feb. 12, 2012
a juried international exhibition with my photo 'Waiting for Spring' included in the show
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Biography
Beata Podwysocka (AFRP, AFIAP) was born in Olsztyn, Poland. She is a self-taught artist who has been always receptive to modern art especially abstract, surrealist and minimalist forms. Her work lies at the intersection of photography and fine arts. She is drawn to the poetry of the ordinary and thus she loves exploring the surrounding world in search of scraps and patches of familiar landscapes in order to isolates shapes, forms, colours or patterns and mould them into self-existing beings. She uses her camera in the way a quilt maker handles scissors cutting out the pieces of reality and sewing them together into a fine art patchwork.
While taking photographs the artist often reaches for vague and transient images such as shadows or reflections. She is fascinated with the fact that one is able to freeze the world that is absolutely intangible, but at the same time, it is inevitably and irreversibly non-existent without the actual physicality of things. Thanks to such a shift in perception she enters countless parallel worlds which are close at hand every day although we rarely realize that we live in their immediate vicinity.
Her works are held in private collections in Poland, the UK, France, Denmark and the USA.
Since 2010 the artist has been actively and successfully participating in photographic competitions both nationally and internationally. Her works have been displayed at four solo exhibitions and several group shows as well as post-contest exhibitions.
Since 2014 she has been a creative photographer, Fellow of the Polish Republic’s Photoclub, a holder of the AFRP title. In July 2015, she obtained the distinction ‘Artist FIAP’ (AFIAP) awarded by the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP).
