Turbulent Utopia, the art of Alexandra Pacula - details

Mighty Tanaka Presents: Turbulent Utopia
A solo exhibition by Alexandra Pacula to begin February 19 – March 12, 2010

NEW YORK, NY – January 22, 2010 - Mighty Tanaka is proud to present Turbulent Utopia, a solo show by Alexandra Pacula, which demonstrates how life in the city is filled with a myriad of warped illusions and broken promises.  As the struggle to lead a stable life in a major metropolitan area grows more daunting by the day, Turbulent Utopia explores the dizzying uncertainty during today’s economic period of change.

Turbulent Utopia captures the twisted pace of a world passing us by, lifting the thin, vivid veil of disenchantment and exposing the true turmoil of financial and social collapse.

Through Alexandra Pacula’s distinct oil painting technique, she blends a sense of photo-realism and abstract expressionism into a surreal city landscape that is both intoxicating and familiar; a world that is constantly in motion. 

About the Artist:

Alexandra Pacula was born in Poland in 1979 and at the age of fourteen moved to The United States together with her family. She is a New York based artist and works in a studio in Brooklyn. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey in 2002 and finished a Master of Fine Arts degree at Montclair State University of New Jersey. Her work has been included in many exhibitions around the US as well as Spain and London.  Alexandra usually works on a large scale and explores the anxieties and conditioning inherent in being human. Her vigorous painterly scenes of urban nightlife offer an insight to human interactions, seductions and desires.  Pacula’s ideas are inspired by her immediate surroundings and personal experiences and observations.