Andrzej Siwkiewicz

Painter, printmaker, sculptor. Born in Warsaw, Poland. Currently living in US. Connected to a sensibility in Polish Modernism that is coincident with the Neo-Expressionists in Western Europe and the United States, Siwkiewicz's work explores personal and universal aspects of humanity as a whole as well an individual. He deals with concepts of isolation, boundaries and transgressions and violations of thereof. Inspired by various sources from European art of the early 20 century through American post war movements, he pursues his own vocabulary and aesthetics within traditional medium of oil painting. His paintings often offer a fragmented metaphor of the body in an arbitrary psychic space. The formal relationships between the pictorial elements are tightly bound to the surface, thereby offering a tension between the elements that elicits a vision of inner-chaos, a turbulence that is inexorable and unmistakable in its coercion. The picture plane is thus destroyed as a purely conceptual structure. The dissemblance of the body as a psychic projection takes over and crowds the space, conflating the logic of both mind and body. The pictorial field is transformed into a symbolic nexus of thrusts and counter-thrusts building a composition ...

MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland
MFA in Painting from RIT School of Art and Design in Rochester, NY.

Recent shows:
(Still) Live - Irving Stone Gallery, Westlake, OH
Paintings - Irving Stone Gallery, Westlake, OH
New Now - East Gallery, Tri-C, Beachwood, OH
AG Art Show - Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
On the Other Side - CSU Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Apart - From Europa to Paradise, exit Gallery, Tremont, OH
Fine Lines - Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
CAAW Show - Plain Dealer Gallery, Cleveland, OH