Beauty in Front of the Castle of the Beast - Limited Edition of 50 Photograph

"The next Ed Paschke. One of Chicago's finest artists, a master painter and Chicago's genius of the gicleé print.""”Collector June Spiezer, whose collection of Chicago Art in the Rockford Art Museum is considered the largest of its kind Robert Kameczura is an artist and a scholar whose prolific and diverse efforts have had a significant impact on every corner of the Chicago arts scene. Called "one of Chicago's Renaissance men" for his numerous activities in so many fields, Kameczura has mastered the arts of painting in acrylics and watercolor, drawing, silkscreen, black and white photography, gicleé work and calligraphy. Regardless of the media, his art possesses a Chicago flavor - a strong narrative and symbolist bent which conjures up the illusion of other worlds reaching far beyond what is visible on the canvas. While some have noted how well Kameczura's art fits into the late 20th century Chicago tradition, others have recognized that these same qualities link Kameczura to a much older lineage, and he has quite rightly been called a "Contemporary Old Master." Like the old masters, his art begins with strength in the fundamentals. He is a skilled and painstaking draftsman, lavishing much attention on every detail, as well as a masterful colorist. As part of a line stretching from Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer right up to H.C. Westermann, Kameczura's art is meticulously crafted, beautiful and significant simply as an object, even without the refining gloss of narrative meaning. Nevertheless, that omnipresent refining gloss is what defines a work as a Kameczura. As it was with the old masters, a Kameczura painting begins with a story. Penelope and Her Tapestry, for instance, contains all of the familiar narrative elements found in the Odyssey: Penelope and her maids, the suitors, the act of weaving by day and the surreptitious act of unweaving by night. Kameczura goes one level deeper, though, and also depicts the allegorical meanings which prop up the narrative. His work is the complete package, resonating with viewers as art, as object, as story, and as life lesson." From Press Release of Exhibit at EAG Gallery at the Elmhurst Art Museum