Teresa Gierzyńska

Teresa Gierzyńska

BornNationalityBased In
1947PolishWarsaw
Biography

Born in 1947 in Rypin, Poland. Since the 1960s, photograph and its duplication techniques such as thermocopy or photocopy have become the main tool for the artist’s exploration of the representation of women and their role marked by society. Her most known cycle About Her proposes an investigation or introspection within the female identity, the mystical version of feminism, where the photographs are accompanied by adjectives – meaningful titles given to the pictures: Dangerous, Independent, Unapproachable, Mature, Cold, Worried, Thirty Years Old, Useless, Left-handed, Velvety, Caresses, Full of Hope. She lives and works in Warsaw. ...

Selected Artworks
Tormented II
Teresa Gierzyńska
Tormented II, 1980
39.5 x 29.5cm
Tormented III
Teresa Gierzyńska
Tormented III, 1980
39.5 x 29.5cm
Determined
Teresa Gierzyńska
Determined, 1980
29.5 x 38.8cm
Alone
Teresa's Case
Teresa Gierzyńska
Teresa's Case, 1979
28.5 x 19.5cm
Independent
Teresa Gierzyńska
Independent, 1979
28.7 x 19.5cm
Velvety
Teresa Gierzyńska
Velvety, 1981
19.5 x 29.5cm
Quiet
Mature
Pregnant
Teresa Gierzyńska
Pregnant, 1979
28.7 x 19.5cm
Abandoned
Teresa Gierzyńska
Abandoned, 1980
28.7 x 19.5cm
Careless I
Teresa Gierzyńska
Careless I, 1979
28.7 x 19.5cm
Caresses XIII
Teresa Gierzyńska
Caresses XIII, 1980
28.5 x 19.5cm
Caresses XV
Teresa Gierzyńska
Caresses XV, 1981
29 x 19.5cm
Untitled
Rebellious
Teresa Gierzyńska
Rebellious, 1993
23.5 x 18cm
Under Pressure
Teresa Gierzyńska
Under Pressure, 1986
20.5 x 22.5cm
Indifferent
Teresa Gierzyńska
Indifferent, 1989
21 x 29cm
Amok
Waiting III
Teresa Gierzyńska
Waiting III, 1989
15 x 20cm
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