Painter • Researcher
Mixed-methods • Science
Jane Kritchko is a contemporary artist based in Lisbon, recognized for her research-driven approach to mixed media art that bridges empirical methodology with visual expression. Utilizing her decade-long background in user research and computer science from her years in IT, Jane deconstructs complex psychological phenomena through painting, interviewing sessions, object deconstruction and installation work while channeling scientific rigor into gestural marks and data-informed compositions.
As digital experiences increasingly replace human connection, she aims to create tangible artworks that inspire others to invoke deep feelings and find inner power. Her approach weaves together solid research methods with artistic practice, turning real human stories and insights into paintings that hit you where it matters. By combining fieldwork, interviews, and data with creative expression, she's building bridges between what we know and what we feel, making art that doesn't just hang on walls but actually moves people to see their own power in shaping what comes next.
A collection of works exploring human consciousness, decision-making, leadership dynamics, and visual perception through mixed methods research and artistic expression.
Each project combines rigorous research methodologies—from ethnographic observation to eye-tracking studies—with visual art to uncover deeper truths about human behavior and experience.
In this project I research how paintings can contain collective memory of lived identity experience. Paintings become narrative objects that translate stories through color meanings and textured scars created by laser burning and regeneration with layered colors on top. I ask myself how people feel these next chapters of life. Would the artwork provoke hope and sharing, or pause viewers in the exact moment of the painting itself. How would a collectively written canvas look when viewers are invited to reflect on the statement of emotional pressure.
1. Six painted canvases with laser burned patterns and their restoration through coloring on top.
2. White Canvas
3. Air pressure sensors connected to white canvases, designed to read only pressure when the canvas is touched.
4. Audio dataset with pre recorded sounds from daily life that can provoke collective memory, such as church bell, sirens, kids laughing, breathing out.
5. LED panels around the white canvases emit colors depending on the amount of pressure.
Works to see - will be available from the end of April
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