Adrienne Kurzawa, March Artist of the Month
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Gallery on Main's Artist of the Month series features an exhibition of paintings and mixed-media work by New Jersey-based artist Adrienne Kurzawa from March 1 through 31. Admission is free, and the paintings are available for purchase.
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, March 2, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
Adrienne Kurzawa works in acrylic paint and mixed media on canvas, paper, and wood. She began making art as a child and soon realized this was a way to escape some of the difficult emotions one experiences living in an alcoholic family. Later in life when studying psychology and art during her undergraduate years at Kutztown University, Adrienne learned that her work was not just an escape but a means of expressing and processing the inner emotional landscapes that words could not.
This began a journey towards understanding the relationships between the creative process, art making, and the psyche. In 1999, Adrienne began her master’s degree work at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, studying the creative arts therapies, and at Seton Hall University studying mental health counseling. Later she became a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and a Professional Counselor.
Today, Adrienne’s work represents emotional moments in time where she attempts, through mindfulness, to create a timestamp which involves the interconnectedness of materials, emotion, movement, and the psyche: the mind, body, and spirit coming together as in a yoga asana. The act of painting for Adrienne is much like a form of yoga, informed by her yoga training.