Maja Godlewska is a Polish-American cross-disciplinary artist, who has been investigating human-nature relationship. In current work she aims to evoke the mystery, a sense of suspense and the vulnerability of the landscape. During her travels she has been traversing environments that fluctuate among sublime, picturesque and pastoral. The nature travel itself, a phenomenon of instagrammable sublime and the allure of perceived remoteness have been informing her work. Godlewska has followed nature tourists in locations from Greenland to the national parks of the United States to Mauritius and produced paintings, installations, performances and at times involved local communities in her projects. She has a track record of environmentally engaged art-making, the best example of which is her recent 3-year involvement in Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean, an initiative supported by the PST Art and Science Collide/Getty Foundation and Fulcrum Arts. At Crystal Cove Conservancy she co-created site-specific work that plunged viewers into an underwater kelp forest, blending artistic vision with scientific urgency. This project, comprised of a poetic physical installation and video/VR, spoke of nature conservancy, science, beauty, involved science and citizen scientists, and local community.
During her residency at all that we are Godlewska will continue her investigation into landscape, environmental aesthetics, and the entangled emotional, cultural, and ecological narratives embedded in place.

Maja Godlewska is a Professor at the Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina Charlotte, U.S.A.