Janusz Wrobel

Curiosity is a human trade, but it has difficulty following the changing world. Creativity is the ability to connect dots that are otherwise disconnected. More often than not, there are too many dots now to connect. One must keep trying. Art is many things; today, each of us must discover what it really is.

I was growing up on the wrong side of history, not by the choices my world made. This experience made me critical of sponsored realities. Consequently, in times of white noise spreading everywhere, my life is defined by each step I make.

Studying chemistry for ten years, I was unaware that science codifies processes around me, including in every living cell of my body. The Living World gradually became my classroom of applied knowledge, and the camera lens became a filter, screening out noise from what really matters. An image is only a reference point, a step leading to better understanding.

I also studied the fundamentals of photography up to academic levels. I used this medium in reporting, science, and documentaries. Furthermore, I am focused on a growing conflict that will, in my view, shape humanity's future. One side of it, the biophysical world's interactions, strives, as it always had, to maintain the range of "living conditions." On the other hand, the socially constructed realities of urbanized populations deny their own dependability on the other side. The outcome would only have tragic consequences.

The vast stretches of the northern American continent are my transparent Petri dishes of processes pivotal to this outcome.

I stopped exhibiting in public and private galleries a few years back. They were meant to be conduits of shaping our social consciousness. At the current level of public support, artists' financing exhibitions become unattainable. I haven't stopped what I have been doing. My virtual exhibition projects continuously evolve.

Past Exhibitions – Solo (shortlist.)
2018 An Aqueous Mind, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Ontario
2014-15 “An Aqueous State” curated by Denis Longchamps, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario.
2015 Intermission, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Ontario.
2014 Ebb & Flow, Gallery of the Pumphouse, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
2013 Ebb & Flow, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Ontario Georgian Bay Ebb & Flow, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario.
2012 “In Full View.” Sept-Oct, TAG Art Gallery, St. Catharines, Ontario.
“Janusz Wrobel Selected Work,” Cabinet Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto, Ontario.
2011 Primal Encounters, Petroff Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.