Anna Ursyn
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“Order and repetition have fascinated me my whole life,” says Ursyn, who was born and raised in Warsaw. “I look at nature and man-made constructions for composition and pattern and the way the space is organized.” Though she continues to paint and draw, as she has since childhood, she likes the way computers can Acreate identical or distorted repetitions. She’s also “intrigued by the fact that the computer is very precise and can do things that a messy person cannot.” Ursyn’s father, who began using computers when she was very little, once bought her a coloring book, and when she wanted to “do everything at once,” she says, and “he saw how messy my work was, he insisted that I color it one page at a time.” Even as a child she was interested in landscapes and urban areas alike, often drawing or painting scenes of nature and soaking up the culture of the cities her parents took her to. “Vienna and Florence were very important to me,” she says. “Those are cities where you explore different layers.”
