Experience

12/17 Studios, Creative Director/Designer/Painter/Illustrator

Work includes fine art paintings, editorial and commercial illustration. Andrzej's work also embraces environmental design and sculpture.

Recent projects include: Listen.com music CD, Epic Arts CD for 17 Bay Area Bands, book cover illustrations for the 'Center for Book Culture', fountain design for Corte Madera Village, children's garden at San Mateo Library and park design for The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco .

Andrzej's paintings are represented by two San Francisco Galleries. His figure paintings are represented by 'California Modern Gallery' and his abstract paintings are represented by'HangArt Gallery'; for most recent work see hangart.com

Andrzej is also a professor for drawing and graphic class at UC Berkeley.

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA
Master of Landscape Architecture and Design

Jersey City State University, Jersey City, NJ
Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and graphic art, Dean's List

School for Arts and Humanities, Brzeg, Poland

Honors

Jurried show selection for the Marin Art Society Exhibit, Ross, 2006.
Jurried show selection at California Modern Gallery, San Francisco, 2005.
Jurried show selection representing Bay Area Artists at Le Genie de la Bastille, Paris, France, 2005.
Jurried show selection at Alameda Art Center Gallery 2004.
Advisory Board Member for Marin Society of Artists.
Member of the World Artist Directory, the net's source for accomplished artists.
Member of mesart.com, San Francisco
Member of the Film Arts Foundation (FAF), San Francisco
Member of art-exchange.com
Member of a committee for Designed Landscape International Conference, 1999, San Francisco
1998 First Place in team effort for EXPO '98 landscape competition, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 Award of Excellence for KFOG's Radio Live from the Archives Benefit CD Cover Contest
1994 ASLA Honor Award for accomplishments in the design field of landscape architecture
1993 Van Alen Nomination for Traveling Fellowship. 1992 Merit Award for Academic Excellence, Association of Polish/American Engineers

Publications

Andrzej's work and paintings were shown:
Journal Francais, October 2006.
ArtBusiness.com, October 2006.
Dalkey Archive, 2004 and 2005.
SF Weekly, November 2004.

Painting Donations

2004-2006
Charity Fund Raiser for the Marin Law Center helping low income families in Marin.
Charity Fund Raiser for the Central Institute for the Deaf in Saint Louis.
Charity Fund Raiser for the Ounce of Prevention, to benefit child development of low income families in Chicago.
Charity Fund Raiser for Visualaid.org, to benefit artists with life-threatening illnesses in San Francisco.
Charity Fund Raiser for Children's Science Schools in Afghanistan, directed by Dana King, CBS, San Francisco

Artists
Andrzej Karwacki
Jeff Mackewicz