ANTOINETTE WYSOCKI PAINTER

My intention is to create abstract paintings that indulge in materials and focus on the expressive process itself. Balanced with details of organic imagery, evocative symbols and text, to address overall subjective translation and perception while addressing impediments of memory association.

I've worked to develop a process combining various materials, chance, control and analysis. Part of my focus is the balance of media and absorption rate so that the various materials interact, binding or refracting from each other or the canvas itself. Each work begins with action painting, with focus around gestures and washes, balancing chance and consciousness. The second stage of control defines the abstracted imagery pulling out elements, while balancing the raw with saturated. The mixed media can alter the pieces beyond repair or become the focus of the piece itself. The process is concluded in the analysis stage where the preponderance of symbols are defined through detailed drawings and brush strokes, insertion of dialog and deciphering of imagery.

These paintings are an active engagement with the viewers sense of process, their perception of media and ground, as well as layers of allegory and abstraction. They seek to balance the subjective with the concrete, the abstracted with the detailed and the sign with the signified.

EDUCATION

2004 Continuing Education, Corcoran College of Art, Washington, DC
2003 Continuing Education Masters Program Special Education, Trinity College, Washington DC

2000
BFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1995 Continuing Education, Corcoran College of Art, Washington, DC 1

1995
Interdisciplinary, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 JOYCE, Joyce Gallery Central and Harbor locations Hong Kong

2014 The Annex, Catstreet Gallery, Hong Kong 2013 Blank Space Gallery, New York, New York
Solo Exhibition, ProArts Dubai
Three Person Exhibition, Meade Carny Mayfair Gallery, London

2012 Three Person Exhibition , BLANK SPACE GALLERY, New York, NY 2010 Two Person Exhibition, 23rd Atmosphere Gallery , Chicago, Ill
Two Man Exhibition, Cat Street Gallery , Hong Kong
Solo Show, Berkley Gallery , NY, New York 2009 Solo Show, KITCHEN , Washington, DC 2006 Bird Series, Solo Show 87 Florida, Washington DC 2004 Recent Works, Three person show, Dupont Circle Gallery Washington, DC
Paintings and Drawings, Parkside Gallery, Sacramento, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / ART FAIRS 2015
Group Show The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2014
Group Show AAF Hong Kong Group Show The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Group Show Llyods Club, London

2013 Group Show The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Group Show Llyods Club, London Group Show AAF, London Battersea Group Show Westchester Art Council, New York Group Show AAF, Hong Kong

2012 Group Show Cheltneham Gallery, England Group Show Operation Smile, Hong Kong Group Show, AAF Show Battersea, London

2010 Group Show, Wall Street Gallery, New York, NY Tribute for Haiti, Kipton Group, New York, NY

2009 Paintings, Group Show, Hyattsville, MD 2008 Paintings, Group Show, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC

2012-current Commissioned Painting Wimbledon England, 2012 Collaboration Handbag Collection with Hong Kong designer Piecco Pang, 2011 Radio Interview Hong Kong Radio, 2010 A Painting, short film by Craig MacNeil 2010 GLAAD Top Emerging Artist, 2007 ART DC Top 10 DC Artist, 2006 American Art Collector, 2005 Selected featured artist-Women's Prerogative.com Washington Project for the Arts/ Corcoran Slide registry, 2005