Krystyna Misiak
Unwritten Letters II, 1996
4 panels, each 116 x 60 x 1 cm
Wood chips on linen ground, backed with burlap

Both Krystyna Misiak's father-in-law and her husband are professional woodworkers. Wood has surrounded her in her personal environment since childhood. She began her work in wood with the scrap chips from their work, aged the pieces outdoors in the sun and rain, then transformed them through her own artistic voice. She now creates her own chips purposefully, using this same process. The bundled wood, an expressive natural vocabulary, reads like marks on a page, communicating the character of her writing and her deep understanding of the media.

Dorota Taranek
Woven Drawing I and II, 1995
Cotton, manipulated hand woven Jacquard fabric, 9 x 19 cm

Anna Kabacinska
Nocturne, 1995
Woven mixed fibers, 20 x 20 cm

Maria Teresa Chojnacka
The Earth, 1995
Weavings from the series
Woven jute on a frame

Maria Teresa Chojnacka's work represents the tradition of complex weave structure. Her designs involve the intricate interlacing of warp and weft yarns to create a low relief, patterned surface. This structurally complicated work is realized by hand, on a wood frame, without the aid of a loom or even a rigid heddle, the vertical wires on a loom that guide warp threads. Because she works without a loom, Chojnacka's woven structures create their own worlds of patterns and textures that evolve and change with each panel. The artist creates rhythmic shifts in line and shape as she builds one structural pattern after another. This merging of pattern, color and texture gives the work a beguiling sensuality.