"Danuta Jarecka covers her canvases with narrow, exquisitely rendered streaks of color. The result is a shimmering surface alive with elusive depths. In these paintings, colors are textures, textures are colors; as you trace their subtleties you discover harmonies as beautiful as they are unexpected. Unconstrained by a pre-established pattern, Jarecka is free to improvise, and thus every painting feels fully realized on its own, distinctive terms. Because the scale of these works is variable, we could see them as enlargements of microscopic phenomena or as portals opening onto vast worlds, each endowed with a uniquely luminous atmosphere". -Carter Ratcliff American art critic and poet

Danuta Jarecka, born in Katowice, Poland begin her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She graduated and got her master degree in Graphic Arts. Soon after she moved to New York City, to continue an education at The Schoolof Visual Arts. Focusing on conceptual illustration, she began a long term collaboration with “New York Times”, “Washington Post”, “Daily News”, “The Wall Street Journal”, and other periodicals. Her illustrations for publications such as: Simon & Shuster, Random House, St. Marten’s Press, and others brought wide attention to her work. She recently moved to Warsaw, Poland where she devotes her work to abstract paintings.

1991 - Print Magazine Design Excellence, Self-promotional Card 1995 - Communication Arts Award of Excellence, Illustration 1996 - The Society of Illustrators Certificate of Merit, Illustration 1996 - American Illustration Award of Excellence, Illustration

1986 - Fas Gallery, Amsterdam 1992 - Pino Molica Gallery, New York 1992 - Polish Institute of Science, New York 1993 - University of East Stoudsburg 1993 - Pino Molica Gallery, Rome 1994 - Polish Slavic Centre for Arts 1994 - PAAS Gallery, New York 1995 - Society of Illustrators, New York 1996 - Ferguson Library, Connecticut 1996 - Ferguson Library, Connecticut 1997 - Nancy Blair Gallery, Los Angeles 1998 - Museum of Cartoon Art and Caricature in Warsaw 1999 - Casimir Puławski Museum, Warsaw 1999 - Instituto Polacco Di Roma, Italy 2006 - Skalar Antiques, Hudson, NY 2023- Avivson Gallery, London