List of works on exhibit by Aleksandra K. Nowak
(Click thumbnails for a large view of the pictures)

1. Dancer X, 2000, oil on canvas, 20" x 30" 

2. The Autumn, 2000, oil on canvas, 24" x 36" 

3. Dancer IX, 2000, oil on canvas, 24" x 30"

4. Memories of One Summer, 2000, oil on canvas, 22" x 32"

5. Sandalwood III, 2000, oil on canvas, 24" x 30" 

6. Wave II, 2000, oil on masonite, 24" x 36"

7. Sandalwood II, 1998, oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

8. The River, 2000, oil on canvas, 24" x 32"

9. Medusa, 1997, oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

10. The Meadow, 2000, oil on canvas, 24" x 36" 

11. The Spring, 2000, oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

12. Sandalwood I, oil on canvas, 16" x 20" 

Aleksandra K. Nowak
Born in Poland. Received her art education in both her native Poland and in the U. S. For the past nine years has served as a director of the Skulski Art Gallery of the Polish Cultural Foundation, Clark, NJ. Her works can be found in many private collections in Poland, Canada, and in the U. S., including collection of Johnson & Johnson, NJ, and Hoyt National Art Institute, Pa.

Nowak's subjects range from psychologically loaded portraits to fantastic, phantom-like figures soaring through atmospheric auras and cosmic spaces. Her style combines elements of Expressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau in peculiar and original manner, like some bizzare yet logical collaboration between Edvard Munch and Gustav Klimt. Her portraits of young women are especially compelling, with their dreamy, sometimes sinisterly lovely models projecting a sense of willful decadence, like contemporary "goth" girls posing as Pre-Raphaelites. Maurice Taplinger, Gallery & Studio, Sept/Oct 1999

The oil of Aleksandra K. Nowak have sinuous elegance and erotic undertones that we associate with Egon Schiele, even though most of her figures, unlike his, are fully clothed. Yet they more than make up for it with their emotional nakedness. Nowak's pensive female models are enveloped in auras of solitude that the painter evokes with succulent strokes of her brush. Unlike so many painters of her generation, who distance hemselves from their subjects with smirking irony, Aleksandra K. Nowak confronts and captures the human figure in all its vunerable complexity. Lawrence Downes, Gallery & Studio, Jan/Feb 2000

Aleksandra K. Nowak
115 Gesner St.
Linden, NJ 07036
Tel. 908 587-5280
fax. 732-382-7169

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