My studies and research concerning METAPHYSICS and human EVOLUTION have throughout modified my vision of the world, my attitude towards life have also influenced the way I express myself in my paintings. Allowing me to break free from limitations, past conditioning, «cloistered» thoughts, rules and imposed «truths».

Liberating the form, as they are no longer boxed-in and imprisioned, let them become flexible, open and alive so they can set their ENERGY and ESSENCE free.

I need to express the flow, the liberation and the transition. To voice what I feel and not what I know, not what I have learnt, not what is trendy or considered «vanguard».

LIBERATION

Finding Freedom is allowing our Soul to freely express itself. To free oneself from the conditioning of the past and the self-imposed limitations. To free oneself from “shut away “thoughs,rules and imposed truths taken as grounded and followed without ever having been verified or justified.
To stop going along with fashionable trends or any other imposition.

The Soul yearns for liberation.
Whants to free itself from being shut away in a specific defined form.

Liberating the Form

When the excessive control on the FORM stops and the definition is no longer rigid, the forms are set free, as they are no longer boxed-in and imprisoned, they become flexible, open, alive. They can move about and set their Energy and Essence free.

Beginning in Paris

After completing her studies at the Academy Superior of fine Art of Lodz, Alicia Czerniak transferred to Paris where she started  her long dynamic artistic career

BIO

Alicia Czerniak was born in the city of Bielsko-Biala in Poland.She undertook her first art studies at the School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and at a later date moved to the city of Lodz to further her studies at the High School of Fine Arts. She earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts specialising in various subject matters: painting, fashion design and graphic arts. Her drawing and painting studies were under the guidance of Professor Lech Kunka. …

A constant yearning for exploring the world would lead her to travel to many countries and she would soon settle in Paris where she would live in the house of the aristocrat Monique de Seysell and later on in Place Jean Baptiste Clément, both locations being situated in a picturesque corner of Montmartre next to the former studio of Pablo Picasso (Bateau-Lavoir) …

She would later on set up base in Spain where she currently resides.

She exhibits in the main European cities, such as London, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona as well as in New York, Miami, Cape Town, the Canary Islands, Mexico, Tokyo and Peking, among others…

One of the highlights was her exhibition at the Museum of Mexico City in 1982 that was personally opened by the governor at the time Carlos Hank González, as well as several ministers and other top government officials. Furthermore, this event was widely covered by all media: particularly the press and many TV channels.

Alicia Czerniak has met a great number of top ranking personalities from all sectors, who have entrusted her with important assignments, mostly portraits that allowed her to showcase an excellent ability for realistic painting and drawing. In 2009, she was invited to participate in an Exhibition of the best European portrait painters in Berlin.

Among her portraits are those of the Spanish aristocrat Jaime de Mora y Aragón, brother of Queen Fabiola of Belgium, the Sheik Mohamed Ashmawi and his family, the President of Congo Brazzaville, Mr. Denis Sassou and his family, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, among others…

Her personality always keen to acquire knowledge would again take her to the United States in 1997 in order to start studying at the Summit University of Louisiana where she earned a Master of Science degree in Transpersonal Psychology.

Her extensive studies in the fields of Metaphysics as well as her own research would lead her to write and publish several works of her own on this subject matter: “Metaphysics and Emotional Health”, “Chasing flows”, “The Incalculable Power of Emotions” , among others.

Her work touches the soul.

To quote Eugenia Gutierrez:

“… The work of Alicia Czerniak has a soul.

Her large format canvasses in an abstract style convey a strength and energy that arises from their symbolism; they suggest an ascending and captivating spiral through a chromatic balance that is full to the brim with vitality. Her work is vibrantly alive… has a life of its one… “

“…The presentation of the latest canvasses of Alicia Czerniak proposes a brand new creative insight and is witness to a freedom of expression through a multitude of flows and energies that are the reflection of the mirrors of souls…”

Stella Kalinina

Freedom and spirituality literally burst out of the work of Alicia Czerniak. The freedom of a vigorous and gestual brushstroke, which is very representative at the same time.

Her work communicates, expressing the idea of an opening toward the cosmic with an energy that transcends the limits of the canvas.
Through a pure, primary and intense chromatic range, Alicia Czerniak introduces us to her pictorial space with an audacity that almost gives us goosebumps. Her containment and the order of her first works culminate in an obvious manner in a predominance of matter and in a flow and dynamism that are free and forthright.

The work of Alicia Czerniak lays bare a personal and different manner of facing the act of pictorial creation and, although we are redirected to the memory of abstract expressionism, her lyrical and poetical style introduces us to a unique and singular creative world.
A great lesson that teaches us how the simplicity of forms may also be conducive to beauty and to the deepest reflection.

Ángeles Hinojosa Tenllado

Antigua Curadora del Museo Nacional Reina Sofía (MNCARS) en Madrid, Doctorado de Investigación en Arte y Creación