Ольга Земска

stillness in motion

source: olgaziemska

Olga Ziemska is a sculptor and public artist that lives & works in Cleveland, Ohio in a studio by Lake Erie. She is a recipient of many prestigious grants and awards including a Fulbright Fellowship in 2002 and a Creative Workforce Fellowship in 2009 and 2013, which is generously funded by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. In 2007, Ziemska was selected as a Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. She has participated in several residencies nationally and abroad, including Centre of Polish Sculpture in Poland, YATOO International Artist Residency in Korea and I-Park in Connecticut. Her work is exhibited both nationally and internationally, with work reviewed in Sculpture magazine. Ziemska recently completed a large-scale outdoor public sculpture titled Indra for Columbus State Community College’s library building.
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source: junk-culture

Sculptor and public artist, Olga Ziemska, uses reclaimed willow branches and wire to create these complex organic figures. Her work contains aspects of sculpture, philosophy and science referencing her interest in the mystical underpinnings of existence. Via her website, “Olga often attempts to make visible those concepts or properties that are indiscernible to the naked eye, such as cellular formations or magnetism. By making visual associations between the visible and the invisible—or the microscopic and the macrocosmic—Ziemska poetically underscores the interrelatedness of all things.”
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source: olgaziemska

Stillness in motion: The Matka Series is a new body of work that explores the concept of place. In this ongoing series I will be using locally harvested trees that grow native to an area to create a female figure in different countries all around the world. The word “matka” in Polish means mother, a person that is significant to the idea of place, origin and our first physical environment—the womb. This work will be a sculptural documentation and visual research of the significance of place through examining the distinctive visual characteristics of an areas native plant life and of its’ natural environment. Through the repetition of the human form, the subtle characteristics of each environment will emerge naturally and visually. This body of work is ultimately a celebration of the diversity of place and also a homage to the similarities that underlie all things at their core.
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source: nomadaq

Stillness in Motion (Quietud en movimiento), es una escultura orgánica y perecedera realizada por la artista con sede en Cleveland en Ohio Olga Ziemska. Empleando ramas de sauce y de cable recicladas crea figuras complejas que encarnan los espíritus del bosque. Su obra contiene aspectos de la escultura, la filosofía y la ciencia hace referencia a su interés en las bases místicas de la existencia. Olga trata de hacer visibles los conceptos o propiedades que son imperceptibles a simple vista, tales como formaciones de celulares o campos magnéticos. Al hacer asociaciones visuales entre lo visible y lo invisible o microscópico que poéticamente pone de relieve la interrelación de todas las cosas. Stillness in Motion se instaló en 2003 en el Centro de Escultura de Polonia en Oronsko, Polonia.