KESS SCORE IN FILM ABOUT KSIAZEK at KOUROS

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About the Artist

Born in Warsaw in 1951, Wlodimierz Ksiazek immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s, where he lives as part of an extended community of gifted visual artists, poets, and critics working within the Boston to New York megalopolis.

Throughout his works is the symbolic element of the artist as exile. He is recognized for mastering a genre of abstract painting that is heavily invested in encrypting personal and social references. The interplay of gestures and marks — achieved by the scraping, dragging, and piling of paint — underscores a sense of perpetual banishment and alienation, carving out a territory that is both symbolic and real. His multiple levels of imagery and allusion comprise the artist’s subjective artistic vocabulary and have been consistently noted by critics throughout his career.

In the exhibition’s catalogue, the New York based critic, Eleanor Heartney, writes: “Ksiazek straddles supposed opposites. His paintings, evoking window, wall and mirror, are also imbued with what William Butler Yeats termed a terrible beauty. They burrow deep into our consciousness, finding resonance with the best and the worst of human life.” Ksiazek has exhibited extensively in the United States and in Europe. This is his seventh one-person show at Kouros Gallery. His work is in numerous public and private collections internationally.