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About Jowita

Baltimore City

Jowita Wyszomirska is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of drawing and large scale installations. She is captivated by the motion and stillness of Nature and its unseen forces and infuses her work with information from satellite imagery, weather patterns, maps, and other data combined with impressions of physical landscapes. Moving between representation and abstraction, her work focuses on and then conceptualizes our landscapes, bringing together aesthetics and… more

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Works on paper, 2016

As one fascinated by the things we cannot see, I seek to observe moments happening in the periphery of our experience: A cloud casting a shadow as it crosses the sun, the ever-changing shoreline where land and water meet, the sensory experience of the wind, and the warmth of a shimmering light touching the skin. This series of drawings are part of an ongoing project inspired by the weather. I record and transform weather data to reflect the effects of climate change with regard to freak winter storms, extreme weather changes, and highly fluctuating temperatures. After using digital manipulation, I laser cut an output of patterns derived from the satellite imagery of NASA of the Chesapeake region.  The dates and locations in the titles indicate when the source images were collected. 


  • Ground, Water, Sky 2
    Ground, Water, Sky 2
    2016 Ink, acrylic, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper 24.5” x 34”
  • Wisps and Currents 2 (Apr. 7, 3:59 PM Chesapeake Bay - Aug. 23, 2016, 12:21 PM GA)
    Wisps and Currents 2 (Apr. 7, 3:59 PM Chesapeake Bay - Aug. 23, 2016, 12:21 PM GA)
    2016 Ink, acrylic, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper 26” x 34”
  • Sterty Nieba (Heaping Sky)
    Sterty Nieba (Heaping Sky)
    2015, 34 x 26.5, ink, markers, acrylic, graphite on paper
  • Przeswity 2 (Interstices 2)
    Przeswity 2 (Interstices 2)
    2016 Ink, acrylic, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper 24.5” x 34”
  • Przeswity 1 (Interstices 1)
    Przeswity 1 (Interstices 1)
    2015 Ink, acrylic, collage, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper 32” x 43”
  • Ground, Water, Sky 1
    Ground, Water, Sky 1
    2016 Ink, acrylic, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper 24.5” x 34”
  • Ground, Water (Red Creek WV)
    Ground, Water (Red Creek WV)
    2016 Ink, acrylic, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper 34” x 19.5”
  • Can’t Stop It (July 7, 7:44 AM - Aug. 23, 2016, 12:21 PM GA)
    Can’t Stop It (July 7, 7:44 AM - Aug. 23, 2016, 12:21 PM GA)
    2016 Ink, acrylic, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper 24.5” x 34”
  • Out of Fragments
    Out of Fragments
    2016 Ink, acrylic, pencil, conte, markers, and graphite on paper Out of Fragments 16” x 24”
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    • The Tempest, Stop-Motion Drawings

    Produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
    Stop-Motion Drawings: Jowita Wyszomirska Editing and Digital Animation: Chad Tyler
    • The Tempest
      The Tempest
      2013, Projected Stop-Motion Drawings, Play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
    • The Tempest: The Storm - Act I Scene One
    • The Tempest
      The Tempest
      2013, Projected Stop-Motion Drawings, Play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
    • The Tempest: Brambles Build, Act 3 Scene 3
      2013, Projected Stop-Motion Drawings, Play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
    • The Tempest
      The Tempest
      2013, Projected Stop-Motion Drawings, Play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
    • The Tempest: Pre-show sequence
      2013, Projected Stop-Motion Drawings, Play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
    • The Tempest
      The Tempest
      2013, Projected Stop-Motion Drawings, Play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
    • The Tempest: Magic Circle
      2013, Projected Stop-Motion Drawings, Play produced by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Illinois Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Playwright: William Shakespeare Director: Robert G. Anderson Scenic Design (Artist in Residence): Chad Tyler Lighting Design: Joseph Burke Projections Design: Chad Tyler Stop-Motion Art: Jowita Wyszomirska
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