Polish born and raised Kalina Winska is the Artist in Residence Program at Recology King County. Her “Gleanings / 2024” exhibition runs from September 6 to September 14. This is what the artists says about her exhibition.

“A certain beauty and fragility emerge in these otherwise rigid forms, when they have been crumpled and flattened. Everything here has been mistreated and discarded because it is no longer needed, yet in this abandonment the materials take on new meanings. Working with these objects inspires profound feelings of interconnectedness. I mean here a deep connection to people and objects through the intimate work – sometimes quite intensive physically, psychologically, and emotionally work – with discarded material.”

The schedule for the exhibition

• Opening reception: September 6, 6-9 pm
• Exhibition hours: September 7, 11-4 pm
• Exhibition open by appointment: September 9-13
• Closing reception and artist talk: September 14, 1-5 pm, the talk at 2 pm

Kalina Winska is a Seattle-based artist whose works – mostly paintings, created on canvas, wood panels, and paper – present speculative landscapes in which the artist blurs reality and representation, the environment and its technological translations, with imagery taken from weather patterns, climate models, futuristic landscapes, and virtual realities.

Kalina grew up in Poland. She earned her MFA from The Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw in 2009 and The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL in 2012. As a recipient of Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship, she went to study in Germany at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) in Spring 2007.

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