Hello. I'm Josie Koznarek.
I'm an artist and live art developer.
As a painter, freedom and expression dominate my style. My work constantly references single-line drawing exercises, a practice used by artists to help loosen their inhibitions and encourage creative problem-solving. By doing so, my ink drawings and paintings allow recognizable plants and figures to be instilled with a bold yet soft impressionistic flair.
My artistic practice, graphic design background, and innate stage presence gave part of my art career an interesting turn; developing live art performances for galleries and theatre productions. My free-flow ink style has been showcased at a number of locations in Chicago, and has been modified according to various budgets, time constraints, and mess constraints to bring live artistic expression to scripted works of theatre.
I live in the Chicago neighborhood of East Garfield Park with my partner, David MacKay, our cat, Snowball, our greyhound Stormi, three shrimps in a bowl, and lots and lots of plants.
My Works Have Been Featured In:
Galleries
Jackson Junge, 2022
The Arthouse Gallery, 2022
BlnkHaus, 2020
DragonFly Gallery, 2020
The Other Art Fair, 2019
Publications
They Call Us Magazine, 2022
Curatorial Magazine, Vol 2, 2020
Venues
SPIN Chicago, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2019
PROP THTR, 2019
BlnkHaus, 2019
Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2018