Anna Sobol-Wejman (born 1946) is a Polish printmaker.
Sobol-Wejman received her diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she had studied in the Graphic Arts Department, in 1972; her instructors there were Mieczysław Wejman and Włodzimierz Kunz . [1] In 1985 she led workshops at the Academy of Fine Arts in Reykjavik, and from 1986 until 1990 she managed the Teatr Stu Gallery in Kraków. She has exhibited her work both at home and abroad, and has won a number of prizes during her career. In her work she favors a variety of techniques, including etching, aquatint, and lithography. [2]
Sobol-Wejman's print Cloak Room I of 1997 is owned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [3] Her work is also in the Museum of Modern Art, [4] and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. [5]
Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary. She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer. she studied at the Wiener Frauenakademie in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She was associated with the pre-war Kraków Group.
Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism, though she rejected this label.
Sheila Hicks is an American artist. She is known for her innovative and experimental weavings and sculptural textile art that incorporate distinctive colors, natural materials, and personal narratives.
Ursula von Rydingsvard is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for creating large-scale works influenced by nature, primarily using cedar and other forms of timber.
Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture.
Elizabeth Woodman was an American ceramic artist.
The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Polish fine art academy, established in 1818 and granted full autonomy in 1873.
Susan Charna Rothenberg was an American contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draughtswoman. She became known as an artist through her iconic images of the horse, which synthesized the opposing forces of abstraction and representation.
Dorothea Rockburne DFA is an abstract painter, drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. Her work is geometric and abstract, seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical concepts she strives to concretize. "I wanted very much to see the equations I was studying, so I started making them in my studio," she has said. "I was visually solving equations." Rockburne's attraction to Mannerism has also influenced her work.
Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series. Her photographs, films and videos focus on serious issues facing African Americans today, including racism, sexism, politics and personal identity.
Jan Stanisławski was a Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies. In 1906 he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site-specific wall drawings.
Anna Bilińska was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. A representative of realism, she spent most of her life in Paris, and is considered the "first internationally known Polish woman artist."
Mary Lee Bendolph is an American quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama. Her work has been influential on subsequent quilters and artists and her quilts have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country. Bendolph uses fabric from used clothing for quilting in appreciation of the "love and spirit" with old cloth. Bendolph has spent her life in Gee's Bend and has had work featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minnesota.
Pao Houa Her is a Hmong-American photographer whose works are primarily centered around the history and lived experiences of the Hmong people. Her's photography consists of greenery and geographic images. She is also a professor at the University of Minnesota and teaches Introduction to Photography.
Bogusław Bachorczyk is a Polish painter, draftsman and sculptor.
Katarzyna Karpowicz is a Polish contemporary painter.
Lech Polcyn is a Polish graphic artist, photographer and painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa (1897-1988) was a Polish artist and teacher.
Norma Minkowitz is an American artist known for fiber art. She attended Cooper Union. In 2003 she became Fellow of the American Craft Council. in 2009 she received the Master of the Medium Award from the James Renwick Alliance.