Julia Maria Zych

About

Julia Maria Zych (b. 2002) is a Polish contemporary abstract and surrealist painter working internationally. Her practice explores the human body as an impulse rather than an image, emerging through gesture, material, and intuition.Working primarily in large-scale formats, she creates mixed-media paintings using self-prepared pigments alongside industrial and construction-based materials. Weight and structure are transformed into intimate, sensual surfaces that carry bodily presence and emotional memory.Color functions as energy rather than decoration. Through bold pigments and layered textures, Zych evokes movement, pressure, and closeness, allowing the body to remain present through trace and sensation rather than form.Her intuitive process allows each painting to determine its own completion. What appears unresolved is a deliberate space where emotion, ambiguity, and material coexist.