The studio is pleased to present a small collection of available works from Project 25: Études and Preludes, a new body of abstract paintings rendered in mineral pigment and walnut oil on dead stock linen sourced from New York’s historic Garment District, including textiles originally produced for houses such as Oscar de la Renta and The Row.
Project 25 marks a deliberate commitment to practice: a self-imposed resolution to create twenty-five exploratory works over the course of 2025. Modest in scale yet expansive in resonance, the paintings function as both études—studies in movement, tone, and surface—and preludes, gesturing toward a larger unfolding. Each canvas becomes a site of concentration, restraint, and return.
Moving beyond earlier monochromatic investigations, Czerwinski now embraces a broader chromatic vocabulary. Mineral pigments suspend in walnut oil with a quiet luminosity, settling into the porous weave of reclaimed linen. The material choices are both symbolic and literal: pigments derived from earth; oil pressed from walnut; fabric once destined for the architecture of the body. These elements converge into surfaces that feel unearthed rather than applied—sedimentary, tidal, weathered.
The works are conceived as meditations on land before naming—before boundary, settlement, and ownership. They are not depictions of landscape, but invocations of terrain as presence. Fields of color gather and dissolve; forms hover at the threshold of emergence. There is a sense of atmosphere rather than image, of horizon without coordinates. In this way, the paintings become spaces of re-grounding—gestures toward an untouched terrain that still exists, if only in fragments, both in remote geographies and within the psyche.
Czerwinski’s longstanding engagement with language, philosophy, and poetic research continues to inform her practice. Her earlier explorations of femininity, mythology, and the earth as divine body evolve here into something quieter and less declarative. Rather than symbolic figuration, Project 25 offers immersion. The viewer is invited into a slowed temporality—a state akin to standing at the edge of desert at dusk, when the sky expands and the body recalibrates to silence.
The reclaimed linen carries its own history: fabric produced for garments that would have moved through cycles of display and consumption now serves as ground for reflection and stillness. In repurposing these textiles, Czerwinski subtly repositions systems of value—transforming luxury material into a contemplative field. The paintings suggest an alternative economy of attention, one rooted in care, repetition, and devotion to process.
As a first solo exhibition in New York City, Project 25 signals both arrival and beginning. The works are disciplined yet searching, intimate yet elemental. They stand as a declaration of continuity: a practice committed to depth over spectacle, to returning again and again to the surface until it begins to breathe.
Available works: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u0-z3UfJdcKFI2zYtYGTRWShzl7PJ1-Z/view?usp=sharing
Remaining artworks from the series have been earmarked for forthcoming exhibition or have already found a place in a permanent collection.
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