2015 – Current, Landscape Identity, Series of One Print Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY. Monotype prints of Polish landscapes installed in ten Polish-owned and two American-owned businesses in Greenpoint. Prints as intervention at sites of social exchange for the Polish immigrant community and pointing to the constant flux of gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Monotype on C-Print on Wood Panel, 20”x30”
Monotype on C-Print on Wood Panel, 18”x24”
2019 “Gadki Szmatki" Exhibition, Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warszawa, Poland. Solo show of site-specific tote bags representing the "object as a vehicle of dialogue" aspect of my community projects.
Project Partner: Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland
Screen Printing on Cotton Tote Bags, 14”x11”
2018 Burton Chace Park, Marina Del Rey, CA.
Exhibition of work I completed during The Burton Chace Park Residency together with artwork made by participants who joined me. Display included artificial grass in reference to the original park setting and exhibition visitors were invited to make art with with me on site.
Oil Paintings on Canvas, 15”x17”
Readymade Sculpture, 11”x11”x11”
2018 Open Studio, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA.
Presentation of work and promotion of the Burton Chace Park Residency; paintings inspired by landscape sceenes from the Polish soap operas. Display was embedded in the backyard scenery enriched by the VR experience for the visitors where they could visually transplant themselves to the park painting metter with the artist.
VR Video, 1 min
Oil Painting on Canvas, 44”x50”
Markers on C-Print Paper, 8”x11”
Oil Paintings on Canvas, 15”x17”
Cultivated Memory: Archaeologies of the Imagined, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Curator: Isin Onol
"Asia Sztencel has been pursuing artistic research that is engaged with the experience of immigrants, primarily focusing on the Polish landscape in the imagination and reminiscences of Polish immigrants living in NYC. In this latest work, Sztencel creates two paintings of typical sweets as a metaphor of Polish and American identities in the eyes of the immigrants, offering the concept of national identity in a candy wrapper. The research process continues throughout the exhibition period in the form of meetings with voluntary audience members. The subsequent conversations which transpire and additional paintings of candies produced are related to identity politics and representation. The basic form in which the artist chooses to work generates further dialogues and critical approaches towards the prevailing perspectives of national identity. The formal and conceptual analysis of these simple objects allows the artist to create platforms for further discussions about the notion of identity and its perception."
Oil Pintings on Wood Panel, 24”x24”
Interactive Instalation, 11”x11”x11”
Ojczyzna/Motherland, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY.
Installation of Monotype Prints on c-photography of the Polish landscape. Greenpoint Library is an important cultural center with bilingual resources for the Polish community. Landscape photos were taken in Poland and featured the artist's invented printmaking technique.
Monotypes on C-Print on Wood Panel, 18”x24”
Oil paintings from the artist imprinted memory of landscapes.
Oil Paintings on Canvas, 48”x88”
Oil Paintings on Canvas, 48”x60”
Oil Paintings on Canvas, 48”x72”
Monotypes on the pictures taken during artist trip to Poland with IPhone from the train window.
Monotype on C-Print on Wood Panel, 20”x30”
Sztencel curated an exhibition presenting works made by kids at her art project Parcel from America at McGolrick Park.
