Now Representing: Debra Zechowski

Now Representing: Debra Zechowski

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 16, 2022

Jenn Singer is pleased to announce that we are now representing New York based emerging contemporary painter Debra Zechowski.

Zechowski's focus is large scale figurative works depicting her working-class Slovakian-Polish-American family. She investigates memory and nostalgia through rendering found photographs of her family’s domestic life. Painting these images allows the artist to reconnect with moments from the past, while the often immense scale invites a public voyeurism into her very private, personal world.

"When choosing a photo I look for signifiers pointing to working-class experience - i.e. mass-produced commodities, pop-cultural iconography, style of dress, etc. - as well as subtle humor."

Growing up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, gentrification significantly impacted Debra Zechowski’s family and their environment. In response to a growing sense of cultural erasure, Zechowski’s nostalgic paintings recreate intimate images of her family’s working-class identity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, at larger-than-life scale.

"Gentrification’s impact on my Brooklyn neighborhood has incited an idiosyncratic nostalgia, more specifically, for the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Family photographs from this period function as relics—both archival document and a springboard for memory/visceral experience. Painting these images bridges a chronological gap in time and allows me to reconnect with events relegated to the past. Overall, my artistic practice aims to assert my identity as a working class female, as well as convey a subversive and conflicted sense of longing to the viewer."

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