Dagmar Wankowski

Dagmar Wankowski’s lithe acrylic paintings reach out to touch the timeless — to make the viewer, in the painter’s own words, “forget the everyday issues that distract from the beauty of surrounding nature.” Wankowski creates intelligent, intricate abstract work in which paint blos- soms and pools like water, deep and strong one instant and barely there the next. Her compo- sitions seem to grow organically, without a single center or direction but with one color building upon another. And it is with her colors that the artist creates a specific, grounded evocation of nature. A painting inspired by a summer garden uses only the colors found therein: dancing pinks and oranges, the bright yellow of dusty pollen, and the cerulean of a sunny sky. Similarly, a work inspired by the night sky is a vast stretch of blues and violets. Though forms never appear outright in her work, Wankowski conjures time, place, and atmosphere with great assuredness.