Something from Venice, I know, not what you expected, but what fun would that be???
Bio
Born on November 22, 1977 in Krakow, Poland.
Currently teaching Art 1, Art 2, and Photography at Maine East High School in Park Ridge.
Lives on the north side of Chicago.
Magdalene Gorecki earned her degree in studio art and journalism from the University of Iowa in 2000. She was awarded the Mary Sue Miller Art Scholarship, which helped her with her tuition. In 2003, she completed her Masters in Art Education from Concordia University. Magdalene served as a graduate assistant in the art department, while pursuing her Masters. While at Concordia, Magdalene had her first solo art show, granted by the Oak Park Art Council. She went on to appear in various shows at Concordia, and various Oak Park galleries. Magdalene was also featured in the Chicago Art Open, hosted by the Chicago Artist Coalition. Magdalene currently teaches art at Maine East High School. Magdalene keeps herself busy producing art of various media. She started out exhibiting primarily photography, but in recent years, she has begun to exhibit her paintings, mixed media, and 3D sculptures throughout Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. Magdalene was recognized as one of the top exhibiting secondary art educators in the Chicagoland area. She was selected by a jury to exhibit at 350 Gallery of Chicago for the “Secondary Art Educator Exhibit.” Her photography was also selected to be featured in The National Juried All Media Exhibit at Gallery 180 in Chicago. One of Magdalene’s personal triumphs was when she along with a few other local artists, helped create the “Time Interpreted” exhibit held at Brickton Art Gallery in Park Ridge. This group of artists is currently considering another themed art show.
Magdalene finds inspiration in social situations, private cognition, and cultural meanings of current contexts. The complexity to communicate abstract ideas can find a vocabulary in art. Magdalene is very interested in art: not as a passive way to express, nor as the “silent vocal cord,” but the noise of insight and passion. Visual language is engaging, requires contemplation, and asks the viewer to consider his or her own circumstance in order to deliberate meaning. Artists do what they can to arrive at a tangible output to a rather ambiguous intent. The art becomes its own separate thing, and its’ meaning becomes the property of the individual who stops to recognize the many layers held within.
