Michelle Avery Konczyk’s painted scenes use elements from the human body and the natural world, with absorbing and unsettling results. The works are often rendered in watercolor on paper mounted to panel for both a delicate, moody sensibility. The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
Michelle Avery Konczyk's beautifully strange portraits of young women with ghostly appearances and third eyes are a far cry from the cheerful, impressionistic paintings we commonly associate with the watercolor medium. "It is my goal," the artist says, "to push the boundaries of the medium and take it where no artist has gone before, not only in technique and subject matter, but in presentation." Moving between the realms of both realism and surrealism, Konczyk's work is layered with imagery that juxtaposes love and beauty with darkness and morbidity as a means to explore "the beauty that lies within our ugly realities."