| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | “To have imagination and be aware of it is to benefit from possessing an inner richness and a spontaneous and endless flood of images,” writes Warsaw-born artist Marta Beranek. “To me it means to see the world in its entirety, since the point of images is to show all that … escapes conceptualisation. Thoughts become monuments.” Literal monuments dwell in Beranek paintings such as “Radio Antenna,” the 2008 oil painting depicting what looks like a cellular telephone transmission tower arising from a blandly grim and imposing structure into a vibrant blue sky dancing with distant gulls.
Beranek, who earned her BA in Art and Design with a major in Painting from the University of Alberta (2002), has participated in numerous exhibitions, including Bird Construction at Edmonton’s Café La Gare, Art on Deck at the Gail Robertson Gallery of Pender Island, British Columbia, and Pospolity at Papyrus Gallery in Warsaw.
The SKILLS Training and Support Services, a non-profit organization of Edmonton and the Pender Island Art Society include Beranek’s work in their collections, as do private collectors in Alberta, British Columbia, and Poland. Beranek, who lives and works in Edmonton was a lead artist at Edmonton’s Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts (2010) and is a member of the Alberta Avenue Artist’s Society. |