2016 Polish Constitution Day Celebration

Maja Goldlewska is the Assistant Professor of Art, Department of Art and Art History in the College of Art and Architecture at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her artist's statement includes the following:

"I explore beauty, permanence and decay in my creative work. I look to phenomena that occur between the form and formlessness, order and chaos, things that seem permanent, yet are subject to change and evolution (such as clouds, stains, patterns of growth and decay). A human body may be perceived as a form very familiar and permanent, it has been praised as an expression of divine beauty, yet it may be a symbol of and it is a subject to decay. Rococo and Baroque architecture and frescoes are fascinating for their unprecedented formal solutions: ascending motion and swirling compositions that are similar to constellations, nebulae or cumulonimbus clouds and for their fleshy, ostentatious content. To me, they symbolize eternal beauty that transcends time."