Marta Klonowska

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Marta Klonowska(Born in 1964) is a Polish glass maker who is best known for her many animal sculptures that depicting their natural poses in shattered, colored glass.

== Biography ==
Marta grew up in Warsaw, Poland where she began her craft as an artist. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (1987–1989), Poland. Glass quickly became her favorite artistic medium in which most of her art is created from. Marta found inspiration for her work in paintings from great historical figures, in which their pets, mostly dogs, where depicted as a symbol of wealth and power. She now lives in Düsseldorf, Poland where she continues to make astonishing glass art work.

== Career ==
Marta Klonowska attempts to "create installations which should lead the audience into a new universe.” ^[1]The sense of a theatrical stage the animals and caregivers are presented in is an attempt to blend the realities together to make her audience think of the uncertainties of life. ^[1]

Dog depicted as in the historical painting.

After her education, Marta Klonowska began to display her art work at many museums. Her pieces can be found in the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, Munich; the [[Corning Museum of Glass]], New York; the Kunstsammlungen der Veste, Coburg; the Glasmuseum Hentrich, Düsseldorf; and the Musée-Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries. She has exhibited in renowned galleries and, from 2005 to 2015, on several occasions at the Lorch+Seidel Galerie in Berlin. She participated in the event ''[[Glasstress]]''(2011, 2013), Venice, and in the temporary exhibition ''Glassfever''(2016), Dordrecht. ^[2]

== Awards ==
She has received many powerful awards such as the [[Artist-in-residence|Artist in Residence]](1999) at the Cité International des Arts, Paris, and the Artist in Residence (2002) at the Akerby Skulpturpark. She was also a finalist for the Bombay Sapphire Prize (2006), London. ^[2]

== References ==

# "Lifelike Animals Formed From Shattered Glass". ''My Modern Met''. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
# ^ [[Marta Klonowska#cite%20ref-%3A1%202-0|Jump up to: ''^a'']] [[Marta Klonowska#cite%20ref-%3A1%202-1|''^b'']] [[Marta Klonowska#cite%20ref-%3A1%202-2|''^c'']] "Marta Klonowska". ''Glasstress'' (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-03-25.

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