Katarina Janečková Walshe (1988, SK)
Katarina Janečková works across media, employing paper, canvas, bedsheets and a wide array of markmaking tools to skewer received notions of authentic culture, gender norms, sexual expression, national pride, social progress, and age-appropriate behaviors. Her process is free-ranging, improvisational and fearless, and she uses her own sexuality, motherhood, and identity as a painter as characters in the scenes she envisions. Her critical attention and transgressive methodologies have most recently been trained on the fallacies of contemporary American life, a happy outgrowth of time spent in Texas, even as her relentless commitment to social justice and the transformative and cathartic potential for figurative painting remains free of geographical site or national character.
Janečková lives and works in Corpus Christi, Texas (USA). Recent exhibition include: Harkawik, New York (Upcoming); Galerie Sofie van der Velde, Antwerp; HerClique, Mexico City; Asia Art Center, Tapei.
Janečková’s work is included in many collections word wide, has recently been acquired by the Rubell Family Collection.