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Polen Cerci

About

The art of unlearning.

I make double-sided burlap wall sculptures — built up layer by layer on the studio floor, pigment soaking through the weave — and authentic, gold-seamed Kintsugi reliefs. Substantial, deeply textured, and impossible to truly replicate, each piece doesn’t just hang on a wall; it transforms the space around it.

I’m an architect by training and an artist by compulsion. I live in Miami, where I keep my own studio — a space built for exactly the kind of work you see here.

For years, architecture taught me to know the answers: precision, proportion, the one correct solution. Painting taught me to let all of that go.

My voice found itself on the floor. I paint on raw burlap laid flat, and the pigment seeps through the weave — front and back — until the surface takes on a life of its own. Over time that became my language: textured, layered, never fully in my control, and unmistakably mine.

Architecture gave me structure. Painting gave me freedom. My work lives somewhere between the two.

Polen Cerci with her red abstract paintings in Miami

A collector moment

One of my early works, Scarlette Red, was chosen overnight for a Coconut Grove mansion — installed by 10 a.m. for a French television crew. In that moment a painting became the center of a room, and I understood what this work could do.

I’m not making art to prove ideas. I’m making it to discover them.

Polen Cerci

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