Study at Academy of Fine Arts, Poland, Faculty of Painting & Graphics.
Diploma in painting and graphic arts.
Exhibitions:
2024 Solo exhibition "Visioni / versioni", Salerno, Italy
2021 Exhibition "Wanted 2", Salerno, Italy
2011 Exhibition Of The Gdańsk District Of The Union Of Polish Artists And Designers On The Occasion Of The 100Th Anniversary Of The Union Of Polish Artists And Designers / Gdańsk Park Scientific And Technological Gdańsk, Poland
2003 Polish Biennale Of Painting And Unique Fabrics, Tricity 2003 / Exhibition Hall At The Gdańsk International Fair, Gdańsk Oliwa Gdańsk, Poland
2002 Painting, Drawing, Graphics And Sculpture Exhibition, Gdańsk 2002 / Exhibition Hall At The Gdańsk International Fair, Gdańsk Oliwa Gdańsk, Poland
2001 Painting Exhibition Accompanying The Posthumous Exhibition Of Paintings And Drawings By Zbigniew Ralicki / Sierakowski Manor Sopot, Poland
1997 Solo Exhibition Of Painting And Drawing In The Promotional Gallery Of The National Museum, Abbots' Palace In Gdańsk Oliwa, Poland. Gdańsk, Poland
Publications:
2021 Publication of the box magazine Civico 23, Salerno, Italy
2011 Zpap - The Exhibition Of The 100Th Anniversary Of Zpap Gdańsk, Poland
1997 Jacek Kotlica - "Talent On The Horizon" - Article In Głos Wybrzeża, July 29, 1997 Gdańsk, Poland
1997 Aleksandra Ubertowska - "Shocking Images Palace Of Abbots. Paintings And Drawings By Justyna Ralicka" Gdańsk, Poland
“Visioni/Versioni” Justyna Ralicka al Civico 23
GAZETA WYBORCZA - July 29, 1997
"Thundering images"
ABBIT'S PALACE. Paintings and drawings by Justyna Ralicka
“In Justyna Ralicka's work, art reveals its artificiality and once again demonstrates the absolute lack of pretense towards an atypical reality.
Justyna Ralicka's paintings arise from traditional gesture painting. The basic value that determines their identity is dynamics and publication. With great bravado and passion, the author applies her large-format research works, arranged amorphously, with capricious brush strokes.
If we were to look for a characteristic element in these paintings, which is available through a different type of author's handwriting, to which a color palette is provided. It consists of a completely stunning mixture of fiery red, bright orange and brown shades of brown. Another set to combine grass green and orange. In any case, the rule here is to be bold in contrasting colors; there is one extra that can appear as an extra extra that lives in reality.
Out of seemingly random lines emerge outlines of shapes, things and interiors. In an organically layered version, you can think about the existence of a portrait, a still life. These "classic" genres of painting lie hidden here, temporarily hidden under the visual surface. Their reading is possible thanks to our "cultural knowledge", knowledge of the painting tradition. Justyna Ralicka subjects it to a kind of destruction, it occurs, it was a collective set of "conventions of seeing". The models, taken from the painting tradition, were translated into English, compositional language. In this way, art reveals its artificiality and once again demonstrates the absolute lack of pretense towards an atypical reality.
It is difficult to attribute an overt, unique skepticism to these paintings, which is possible to lose credibility in the sense of painting. There is also the rank of a painterly gesture that remains - as a result of immediate destruction - completely eliminated from the philosophical character that can be read from Justyna Ralicka's paintings. This is a big connector, a connector of quality that is resistant to internal differences and that may even differ.
Aleksandra Ubertowska
Justyna Ralicka, Painting, drawing. Promotional Gallery. Abbots' Palace, Oliwa, ul. Cistersów 15
GŁOS WYBRZEŻA – July 29, 1997
“(…) After three large-format drawings, you can see that Ralicka also had a good education in this subject (she graduated in drawing with excellent results from the studio of doc. Wiesław Zaremba). (...) The drawing is expressive, discreetly embellished with color, the line is dynamic, narrowing into a sign or an element representing (...), basically a compositional outline - in an intense network of lines, drawn with panache, but also with a plastic "hearing", i.e. a sense of rhythm and harmony. I'm not surprised that she passed drawing with honors. (…) She mastered the study of the subject, the ability to build solids, planes and space in an amazingly creative way.
(…) [the paintings] show traces of respect for representational abstraction and colorful modernism. Hence the techniques and topics, including "still lifes". But how different are they from the so-called (…) clichés - these are spontaneous transformations of these still lifes into a living tissue of color (even difficult green) and a play of planes.
(…) From what is shown at the exhibition, one thing can be concluded - this is a genuine painting talent. There is no hint of coquetry, concessions or exaggerated ratings. You can see it or feel it - it emanates like a laser. "
Jacek Kotlica