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Biography
Pawlak's work is connected by her unique capacity to maintain a strong personal aesthetic through cohesive color palates and commitment to telling the truest version of her stories to the best of her capacity. She believes that great work tells the individual narrative with an honest venerability that allows the viewer to step into a shared, narrative they can then claim as their collective truth.
Pawlak's landscape paintings mark her relationship to the expansive geographic landscape of Canada. She employs emotive color to extend the sky and land, creating expansive spaces for contemplation. Emotive, color field work emit a calm energy and while they do not name a particular time or place, they offer an opportunity to reflect.
Another series from Pawlak investigates the female form. Subtly expressing the complexity of vulnerability and the capacity of the body to quietly bear the responsibility of immeasurable weight. Her figurative work considers memory and time as they are carried in the physiology of our bodies. She sees the landscape and the body as place-holders for memory.
In her latest series, Imagined Vessels, Pawlak explores another classic theme in painting, still life. In this study of inanimate objects Zoë's application remains curious and tender. The paintings command the same presence as portraiture and mark a stillness that Pawlak has recently claimed as her own. Imagined Vessels, records the tranquility of an object while designating the vessel as a holding space for new ideas, patience, and capacity.
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CV
Download Pawlak CVB. 1982 White Rock, B.C.
Lives and works in Montreal, CanadaEDUCATION
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Canada
Universidad de Las Americas, Exchange, Cholula, MexicoSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Stay, Stay, Gotham West, New York, NY
2017
Landscapes, The Aviary, Vancouver, Canada
2015
A Break in Pace, No Remorse Studio, Vancouver, Canada
2014
Other People's Flowers, No Remorse Studio, Vancouver, Canada
2013
At the Edge of Distraction, No Remorse Studio, Vancouver, Canada
2012
It Takes Time to Make Magic, Nelson The Seagull, Vancouver, Canada
Paper Works, Good Luck Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009
ART MARKET, On the Rise, S. Granville, Vancouver, CanadaGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
At Scale, two-person show curated by Uprise Art, Dallas, TX
2015
Views from the Southbank II, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2013
One Moment of Silence, Hutspot Gallery, PUP Concepts, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011
Presence 2 Group Show, Catalog Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Twitter/Art+Social Media Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver Canada
2010
Clearly Seen with Fiona Ackerman, On the Rise, Vancouver, Canada
Faraway Places, in partnership with Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel
2009
A Part of This, with Megan Wennberg, FRED Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2008
T.O.A.E., Toronto, Canada
For Instance, Isabella Egan Gallery, Vancouver Canada
The Cheaper Show, Storyeum, Vancouver, Canada
2007
Oil, Terror and the Superunconscious, North Vancouver Cityscapes Arts Council Gallery, N. Vancouver, CanadaPUBLICATIONS
Architectural Digest
The Globe and Mail Online
Rue Magazine
Design Milk
Domino Magazine
Gray Magazine
House and Home Magazine
ELLE Canada Magazine
Style at Home
Design Sponge at Home
Martha Stewart LivingAWARDS
2019
Western Living's Designer of the Year Award - Industrial Designer of the Year
2016
Shortlist for Western Living's Designer of the Year Award - Best Industrial Designer (Over Oceans, rug collection)COMMUNITY BUILDING
2007-2017
Co-founder of Loaded Bow, first offline Vancouver events for female entrepreneursNOTABLE TALKS
2023
Tenth Anniversary Pecha Kucha, Artist talk, Vancouver, Canada
2021
Creative Mornings, Sobriety and Matriarchy
2013
Pecha Kucha, Artist talk, Vancouver, CanadaNOTABLE COLLECTIONS
The Government of Canada
Club Monaco
The Ritz Carlton
Cobie Smulders and Trevor Linden
