Justyna Pennards-Sycz Justyna Pennards-Sycz’s artistic work, which is ascribed to abstract art mainstream, is a result of colour and light seeking that is intended for creating artistic compositions with specific and persistent emotional charge. Her expressive and stylistic works (particularly the artist’s distinctive way of applying the paintbrush) are the results of her fascination with nature: the chaos and diversity of flora and fauna of the sea and the ambiguity and exoticism of Japan - highly dynamic paintings based on colour but not deprived of details.
Justyna Pennards-Sycz (born 2 April 1969) Painter and translator of Polish origin. Graduate in economics at the University of Münster as well as artistic studies (specialization: painting) at Fine Art Academy of Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. Russian-German and Polish-German translator in 1992-1994. Project manager and internal communication specialist in multinational corporations: Praktiker (Saarbrücken, Warsaw), Creative NLP Akademie in Wiesbaden and AXA Investment Managers in Frankfurt on the Main. Married in 2004 and moved to the Netherlands. Justyna works and lives in Amersfoort. The large-scale abstract paintings by Justyna Pennards-Sycz are the result of a long quest of creating figurative and two-dimensional depth without resorting to traditional artistic means. The starting point in the artist’s work is the encountering world shown in unusual moments which deviate from the accurate state of affairs - Japan right after the tsunami or a forest photographed under the light reveal unreal and magic dimension of wellknown things constituting a unique source of inspiration. Some of the paitings are fully filled with multi-coloured splashes in diverse shapes, whereas other paintings are the artist’s experiments with paintbrush strokes and accent strength which surprises you with the diversity of marks applied to the canvas. Like the traditional painting that played the role of a window to the world, Justyna’s paintings can be seen as a window to the alternative reality – a subjective world deprived of scientific discipline.
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Solo exhibitions • Galerie Absoluut Art Gallery (Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2011) • Jenne Renes Art Gallery of Abstraction Art (Utrecht, Netherlands, 2011, 2012) • Gallery 1664 (Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2013) • Center for Modern Art (Wroclaw, Poland, 2013) Group exhibitions • Museum Casteelse Poort (Wageningen, Netherlands, 2005) • Exhibition of Summer Academy of Fine Art (Hallein, Austria, 2008) • Joghem Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010) • Exposure, HKU (Utrecht, Netherlands, 2010) • Collection of Rabobank (Utrecht, Netherlands, 2011, 2012) • Current Gallery (Baltimore, USA, 2011) • Stadsgalerie (Breda, Netherlands, 2011) • Museum Flehite (Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2012) • Jenne Renes Art Gallery (Utrecht, Netherlands, 2012) • Stadsgalerie (Breda, Netherlands, 2013) • Summer Exhibition “Earth” (Hague, Netherlands, 2013) • Gallery Diana Leperaar in cooperation with the Japan Museum (Leiden, Netherlands, 2013) • Gallery Absoluut (Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2013) • International Art Fair Krakow (Krakow, Poland, 2013) Participation in artistic projects: • “Hotel Bloom“ – execution of large-scale mural projects in a public space • Livebuild – charity project for Africa • Company portrait for urban tourism in Amersfoort
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OCEAN 0 | 2010 | 120 x 100 cm | acrylic on canvas Ocean (collection) The fascination with the diversity of evanescent life became an impuls for creating a collection of experimental paintings combining the underwater world with absurd elements which result in an unique and dynamic space.
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PHYSALIA PHYSALIS LEARNING TO FLY #1 + 2 + 4 | triptych | 2013 | 120 x 240 cm | mixed media on canvas
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PHYSALIA PHYSALIS LEARNING TO FLY #3 + 5 + 6 | triptych | 2013 | 120 x 240 cm | mixed media on canvas
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PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE | 2013 | 100 x 80 cm | mixed media on canvas
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HOME AGAIN | 2013 | 100 x 80 cm | acrylic on canvas
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BERLIN IS WAITING | 2013 | 120 x 90 cm | acrylic on canvas
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JAPAN 2 | 2012 | 100 x 140 cm | acrylic on canvas
Japan (collection) The result of carrying out a search of depth and space in the context of the cultural transformation of contemporary Japan. Exoticism which is presented in a restrained and peaceful way does not take away the mystery that is typical for Japanese painting.
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OCEAN 5 | 2010 | 100 x 120 cm | acrylic and lacquer on canvas
Ocean (collection) The fascination with the diversity of evanescent life became an impuls for creating a collection of experimental paintings combining the underwater world with absurd elements which result in an unique and dynamic space.
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OCEAN 4 | 2010 | 100 x 120 cm | acrylic and lacquer on canvas
Ocean (collection) The fascination with the diversity of evanescent life became an impuls for creating a collection of experimental paintings combining the underwater world with absurd elements which result in an unique and dynamic space.
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JAPAN 4 | 2013 | 90 x 120 cm | acrylic on canvas
Japan (collection) The result of carrying out a search of depth and space in the context of the cultural transformation of contemporary Japan. Exoticism which is presented in a restrained and peaceful way does not take away the mystery that is typical for Japanese painting.
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JAPAN 5 | 2013 | 120 x 90 cm | acrylic on canvas
Japan (collection) The result of carrying out a search of depth and space in the context of the cultural transformation of contemporary Japan. Exoticism which is presented in a restrained and peaceful way does not take away the mystery that is typical for Japanese painting.
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SNOW AT THE EDO RIVER | diptych | 2013 | 100 x 160 cm | mixed media on canvas More paintings: www.justynasycz.com
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OCEAN 2 | 2010 | 130 x 100 cm | acrylic and lacquer on canvas Ocean (collection) The fascination with the diversity of evanescent life became an impuls for creating a collection of experimental paintings combining the underwater world with absurd elements which result in an unique and dynamic space.
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TSUNAMI 1 | 2011 | 20 x 30 cm | acrylic on canvas
Tsunami (collection) A collection of paintings inspired by the earthquake in Honshu and the dramatic fight of the Japanese people with the tsunami wave. Canvases full of tension register the abstract reality itself.
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CANIGOU | 2013 | 100 x 140 cm | acrylic on canvas
Ocean (collection) The fascination with the diversity of evanescent life became an impuls for creating a collection of experimental paintings combining the underwater world with absurd elements which result in an unique and dynamic space.
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TSUNAMI 3 | 2012 | 50 x 60 cm | acrylic on canvas
Tsunami (collection) A collection of paintings inspired by the earthquake in Honshu and the dramatic fight of the Japanese people with the tsunami wave. Canvases full of tension register the abstract reality itself.
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SUNRISE PARADISE | tsunami collection | 2012 | 60 x 50 cm | acrylic and ink on canvas
Tsunami (collection) A collection of paintings inspired by the earthquake in Honshu and the dramatic fight of the Japanese people with the tsunami wave. Canvases full of tension register the abstract reality itself.
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TSUNAMI 2 | 2011 | 30 x 20 cm | acrylic on canvas
Tsunami (collection) A collection of paintings inspired by the earthquake in Honshu and the dramatic fight of the Japanese people with the tsunami wave. Canvases full of tension register the abstract reality itself.
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PIANO LESSON 1 + 2 | diptych | 2012 – 2013 | 210 x 220 cm | acrylic on canvas Symbiosis (collection) The main subject of the collection is memory: mixing recollections and coexistence of past feelings with the emotions of the here and now. The maze of plant structures forms a multidimensional reality in which the past mixes and disappears in everyday life.
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