IN THE BRUSHWOOD
 "I have an impression, that it isn't easy for the artist to reveal her secret which might be the farewell with figurative painting. If it is so, the next gathering with her former public, is going to be a kind of very intimate confession.
  ...this time the author has decided to speak out: my present fascination refers to the signs and structures totally departed from the real life, so I brought my abstraction.
...the artist that we know is still present, but only in her strong impact, emphatic gesture, expressiveness and fleshiness of the outline. It is beyond all questions that the present world of this painting, with no human figure or outlines of a woman's face, being characteristic and favorite motives of the author in the past carries in it reliable transformation of anatomic outline into anatomy of matter. At present, public can see the carpet of limited structures, the ornamental repetition of which, pictures them as the elements of some infinite carpet.
  ...the world of Maria Sochaniewicz has changed and broaden by the field of imagination, inspiration of which, and then the interpretation, leaves a lot of freedom to the artist and to the spectator."

Wojciech Krauze
Introduction for catalog for exhibition in Test Gallery, (excerpt), May, 1998

Test Gallery, "Recent Work",1998, Warsaw

SOHO20 Gallery, "Recent Paintings", 2000, New York

SOHO20 Gallery, "Recent Work", 1998, New York

"Ekspresje", Maria Sochaniewicz - Paintings, Dariusz Kowalski - Sculptures, Art Office Gallery, 2004, Warsaw

"New York Remembrance, Snakes, Fish and...", The Polish Institute of Science & Art, 1989, New York

Gallery of Contemporary Art "Nowy Swiat", Warsaw, Poland
(1978-1999 permanent gallery artist)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Nowa Ruda Art Festival, 1975