Krystyny Vandenberg Ekklesia Painting krystynyv@gmail.com
My work consists of paintings and drawings portraying people as I see them—from the back. I have always placed myself in the world in the back of places—I always sit in the back of classrooms, in church, and in any crowd. Being slightly removed from people in this way, I’m able to observe and take in my surroundings in a quiet and unassuming way. My role as an artist and as someone who is drawn to these quiet places is to be an observer. I look at the people around me which is so often friends and colleagues, and I paint or draw them in my own sort of iconography, noticing their complex, fragile, and dynamic relationships with each other and with me. By abstracting them, I draw attention to the idea of these relationships, all while venerating the people by putting them in an empty and flat sacred space thus creating a sort of quiet reverence for them.
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