For Piotrowski, color and surface, broad brushstrokes and fine details are paramount in her abstract paintings. With mark-making that is both aggressive and gentle, Piotrowski deftly incorporates notions of order and chaos, tenderness, and violence, calm and anxiety, imbuing the right amounts of edginess, uncertainty, and mystery to keep herself inspired and her viewers engaged. Piotrowski’s dynamic compositions become defiant celebrations. Something beautiful and inexplicable happens by way of abstraction.
Kim Piotrowski’s art has been featured in such venues as Grolle: Pass: Projects in Wuppertal, Germany; Forum Gallery, NYC; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, and Barbara Davis Gallery, in Houston, TX. She has also exhibited extensively in the Chicago area at Cultivator Arts, Linda Warren Projects, Riverside Arts Center, 65Grand, Hyde Park Art Center and Union League Club.
Piotrowski is the recipient of such prestigious honors as the Artadia Grant, the Illinois Arts Council Visual Artist Grant, Sustainable Arts Foundation Artist Grant, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant. She has also been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Hambidge, Oxbow and Ragdale.
Kim Piotrowski was born in Buffalo, NY and in 1984 moved to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
