Arlene Kaczka
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USA (United States)
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Mischtechnik
Stil: Expressionismus
Statement:
Artistic expression, for me, starts from looking at the tree branch, the expression on people’s faces or the marble flooring, and the like. While at MSU I have created a few different series of works.
The first called ‘Menu’ deals with pornography taken from the internet. While looking at specific images from printed sheets of paper, I painted the images while dealing with my issue of porn. The like and not like aspects of it and the outcome came to be non-threatening images on 8X5 sheets of paper.
The next was a few works dealing with an obsession of a guy I met on the internet. The series has to deal with love, obsession, and longing to hold somebody you might never meet. I sculpted a head and created a huge canvas measuring 18’X9’ witch depicts imagery representing the feelings of love brought out from meeting this guy online.
My final series deals with drawing from life. Taking one, two, or three sheets of paper and using charcoal to steer my hand and eye coordination to create the essence of the person I am looking at. This makes the subject recognizable but also holds the mystical qualities that captures more then a person’s flesh.
I deal with the figure and what experiences I go through. There are always people around me and because I am a person I’m drawn to the face. It shows emotion. And I capture it! I could call myself an emotionalist. I represent the emotions.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Exhibits/Awards
Stimuleye at Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg NY
Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Red Saw Gallery, Newark NJ
Montclair State University, MFA GALLERY
William Paterson Center Court Gallery, Tuna Gallery, Power Arts Gallery, Student Center Art Gallery
William Paterson Babcock Purchase Prize Award
Award with �Profiles of the Future,� with the painting called: The Kiss
I won a Hahne�s �Draw Your Mom� contest at age 6 my work was printed in the Sunday Star-Ledger on May 13, 1984 in Section One: Page 19
New Jersey School of Visual Arts
West Hudson Arts Council Exhibit
Rutherford Art Fair
Kearny High School Exhibition
Solo show at Deko Lounge
Art in the Park, Kearny, Twice
Education/Courses
Montclair State University, MFA, current
William Paterson University, B.F.A., August 2006
Kearny High School, HS Diploma 1996
New Jersey School of Visual Arts, Photography
Montclair University, Computer Graphics Course while in High School
William Paterson University, Printmaking Workshop
Printed Documentation
I was in the Kearny Journal, a picture of me drawing a man from the Art in the Park Event.
I have been in the Observer through-out the years about three times. Twice through WPU winning awards and having my art photographed with me and a third time for the Art in the Park Event.
Hahne�s �Draw Your Mom� contest at age 6 my work was printed in the Sunday Star-Ledger on May 13, 1984 in Section One: Page 19
Performence Event
I have participated in a Graduate Thesis Preparation by David Horton. Chairman David Horton had Professor James Andrew Brown prepare the �Monster� creation. It had to be big enough that the graduates could walk through and mobile enough to move around. We worked on that project and the day of the Show I was to get half naked, run around with a wrap on my and I or someone got the idea to place mud on our faces and my breasts. There were two of us to run around wildly and antagonize the audience. The Monster was to represent something in which the graduates had to pass through to come out at the other end in order to let go of something in which held them back like fear. It could have been anything personally to them, but generally it was to find their fear, face it and let it go. And prepare them in a special way for MFA Graduation that year. I must have did a good job because Horton said, �We are hitting the malls next week.� That was a joke but I was inclined to really do that for I had lots of fun. This took place in front of an Audience and was in the Power Art Gallery. Also in the Power Art Gallery at WPU I have participated in one or more group shows with sculpture and possibly painting.
Biography
Arlene Kaczka b.1978 grew up in Kearny, New Jersey. Her Mother Marilyn Mather always encouraged her with the pursing of the arts. Arlene went to Kearny High School where she took many art classes and realized her future would be in the art field. Arlene graduated Kearny High in 1996, when she then started with a summer course called philosophy in pursuit of a BFA program at William Paterson University. Meeting great professors Arlene started moving into creating huge oil stick paintings and trying various other materials. Arlene graduated William Paterson University in 2006 and fruther went on to Montclair State University getting her MFA in 2009, while concentrating more on presentation and series of works.
Arlene now wishes to Artist Residency hop gaining the means to continually produce artwork, meet creative people, live in various locations around the world.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Art Related
Art in the Park
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Hat Seller on 23rd Street NYC
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Schwarz-Weiß
25 x 20 cm
2006
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Walking Billboard
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Schwarz-Weiß
25 x 20 cm
2006
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Cannot See His Face
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Schwarz-Weiß
25 x 20 cm
2006
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