Anna Chorzępa-Kaszub

Anna Chorzępa-Kaszub (b. 1985, Poznań) is a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Visual Communication at the University of the Arts in Poznań (2010). She worked for years as a creative graphic designer at an advertising agency in Poznań. Over time, she began to use the experience she gained at university and in her professional work to develop her own paintings.

The artist draws her greatest inspiration from the broadly defined street art scene. The starting point for her work is the human being, though not in a literal sense. She focuses on the intangible, elusive aspect of human experience. Chorzępa-Kaszub’s works are often heavy in tone: black dominates from all sides, and at times, the figure seems to blend into the background, merging with it. Colors vary from softer tones to more aggressive ones, depending on the emotions that accompanied her during the creation of each painting. Essential elements in her compositions include drapery, light, and movement, which shape the figure not only in its material form but also convey the elusive, almost intuited part of existence. One painting often serves as a starting point for the next, and while they do not form a unified narrative, they communicate with each other in some way. Faces are less important and appear infrequently; instead, other elements on the canvas — hands, drapery arrangement, colors, and light — are meant to convey the emotions of the depicted figure.