Olga Mokrzycka-Grospierre

Warsaw-based Olga Mokrzycka-Grospierre’s background in set design informs her painting practice. Each object exists as mise-en-place, defined by perspective and space. Elements are assembled and disassembled to create a sense of foreground and background, though they never reference traditional landscapes. Instead they function as micro-political negotiations between the communist architecture and life post 1988, when Poland collapsed its prior government and turned towards capitalism, opening the country to new opportunity, wealth, and freedom.