Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986) was recognized during her lifetime as a Contemporary artist and Surrealist. Her drawings and paintings have attracted the attention of patrons and prestigious gallery owners in solo exhibitions from the 1960's to the present. She shared group exhibitions with Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, Isamu Noguchi, Francis Picabia, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Murray, and Katherine Bradford. Her work can be found in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Prado, the Menil Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum.
Agatha lived her early years in Steinach de Saale, Germany, and then sailed to the United States in 1923 to be a governess in a German baron's household. She married (new last name - “wuja house key”), became a US citizen and moved to New York City. A well-known psychic medium, Agatha traveled throughout the world as a healer.
In the early 1950s, without any background or training in the arts, Agatha began drawing in a trance-like state. First, letters and Native American images appeared, and then abstract paintings and drawings. Her surreal, otherworldly artwork often includes hidden faces. She was guided by spirits of every race and heritage, and by her personal guide, Morning Glory.
This is the work of different entities who take over and step into my body,
directing my hand. I really have nothing to do with it.
The courage of her spiritual convictions led Agatha to meditate and write page after page of script and hieroglyphics in unknown languages. She believed that eventually someone would be able to translate the notebooks she filled.
A modest woman with a surprising talent, Agatha trusted that each of her drawings and paintings had a destiny of its own. Agatha Wojciechowsky’s spirit-guided artwork continues to amaze and inspire people around the world.