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Krzysztof Wasko
Biography & Works


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Krzysztof Wasko 2020 - Born July, 31 1970, Lomza, Poland. Krzysztof Wasko is highly recognized for his expressive, gestural, calligraphic, illustrative and graphic style paintings that pay tribute to current and historical personalities. He also adds mythological beings to his artwork. He wonderfully takes those real and fantastic characters to graphically tell us how great they became. But he goes beyond... always: he is so gifted that he can gracefully offer us also nature’s landscapes paintings and abstractions, besides his figurative and expressive art.

​Most of his artistic pieces were created while the artist was living in Chicago. However, because of his Polish heritage, he is highly influenced by the work of European Masters such as Velázquez, Saura, Picasso and Goya. So his work is a contemporary remainder of a style developed by most post-war mayor artists.
 Wasko has developed a fresh and unique style of his own. A characteristic style recognizable by the combination of palettes of black, white and bright colors, and expressive brushstrokes. The artist explores the heart of the subjects of traditional painting’s and drawing techniques, and reformulates his art to be included into a very selective group of revolutionary contemporary artists.

In his creative “prose” style, Wasko includes large-format paintings to engage portraits, nudes, animals, angels and a burlesque series and juxtaposes his personal brushes of sensuality and eroticism... all this while adding moments of his own experiences and growth to his art pieces.



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Krzysztof Wasko es un claro representante del nuevo pos expresionismo, basado en retratos y personajes célebres y otros menos conocidos o desconocidos. El artista de origen polaco ha pintado la mayoría de los mismos durante su estancia en Chicago. Su obra expresiva es fresca y directa, de colores contrastados, de rasgos rápidos, con ciertos detalles, pero, a la vez, elaborada con una dinámica natural de ordenar la composición de tal manera que expresa con iconismos, aniconismos, letras, colores, signos, texturas y ciertos detalles el mundo que complementa a sus personajes objeto de su interés. Ágil y dinámico, busca la expresión antes que la representación, indaga en la evidencia de la idea, para dar su visión de los mismos, al margen de la realidad, buscando consolidar su propia realidad, permitiéndose ciertas libertades como, por ejemplo, buscar detalles que a otros pueden parecer irrelevantes pero que para el artista polaco son fundamentales. También tiene obras dedicadas a animales, otras a momentos íntimos personales, asimismo pinturas diversas de temas variados, pero todas con un denominador común: se trata de creaciones de agilidad sorprendente, de trazo rápido pero trabajado que determinan que es un artista de depurada técnica pero de visión ágil que busca consolidar una composición marcada por la reformulación de un nuevo concepto expresionista. Es un pintor lleno de vida, alejado de lo denso, estando claramente comprometido con el momento actual. En este contexto una de las aportaciones que podríamos destacar es que humaniza a los personajes buscando aspectos de los mismos que nos acercan de manera clara y directa a su dinámica más evidente que es que antes de ser personajes son personas y como personas sujetos a lo cotidiano y normal, al margen de cualquier trascendencia.
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KRZYSZTOF WASKO
 
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Education:    
MFA in Painting, National Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland
MFA Photography Program, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
College of Education, Lomza, Poland
 National School of Performance and Music, Lomza, Poland
 
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2019     Center on Halsted, Chopin in the City, Chicago, IL
2017     Center on Halsted, Harlem Comes to Halsted, Chicago, IL
             Altima Title, Life Converions, Chicago, IL
2016     Center on Halsted, Summer Rehersal, Chicago, IL
2015     Altima Title, Being a Christian Loubouin for 15 Min, Chicago, IL
2014     Muzeum Północno-Mazowieckie w Łomży, Retrospective, Lomza, Poland
2013     Rogers Park Studio Art Parlour, Chicago IL
2012     Loyola University, Project “O”, Chicago IL          
             Loyola University, Symphony of Color and Shape, Chicago IL
2011     Cota Street Sector Gallery, Mountain Cows, Santa Barbara, CA
             Plum Goods, Madonna , Santa Barbara, CA
             Plum Goods, Human Expressions, Santa Barbara, CA
2010     Galeria Wasko, Being Selective, Chicago, IL
             Galeria Wasko, Chicago Here and Now, Chicago, IL
             Galeria Wasko, Burlesque, Chicago, IL
2009     Atrium Gallery, Ultra Violet, Chicago, IL
             Polish Museum of America, Judgment, Chicago, IL
             Aldo Castillo Gallery, Life Riders, Chicago, IL
2008     The Artist Project, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2007     Oak Park Area Arts Council Art Gallery, Abstract in Fall, IL
             North-East Museum of Poland, Lomza, Poland
             River Bank Lofts, Retrospective, Chicago, IL
             Johnsonese Gallery, Faces of March, Chicago, IL
2006     Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, “6”, Chicago, IL
2005     Thomas Masters Gallery, Madonna, Chicago, IL
2004     Society For Arts, Still Life For Kevin, Chicago, IL
2002     Pilsen Art Gallery, Sexual, Chicago, IL
2001     Fine Arts Parlor, West Side Collaboration, Chicago, IL
1999     Gallery In Pasaz, Still Nature, Wroclaw, Poland
             Great Beast Performance Gallery, Hidden Desires, Chicago, IL
1995     Carole Jones Gallery, Purity of Conception, Chicago, IL
1994     On the Odwach Parlor of Contemporary  Art, Abstract Visions, Wroclaw, Poland
             Accent Gallery of Contemporary Art, Introduction to Abstraction, Bialystok, Poland
             On the Solny Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Summer Critique, Wroclaw, Poland
             The House of Creative Environments, Color and Shape, Lomza, Poland
             Museum of Archeology, Sprits and Gods, Wroclaw, Poland            
1993     Entropy Gallery, Internal Transformation. Wroclaw, Poland
             Billard’s Club, New Vision, Lomza, Poland
             Town Gallery, Young Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
 
 
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2016     Raw Artists, Natural Born Artists, Chicago, IL
2015     Raw Artists, Reveal, Chicago, IL
2008     Chicago History Museum, Catholic Chicago, IL
2007     Bridge Art Fair, Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL
             Scope Art New York 2007, Cinemascope, Kasia Kay Art Projects, New York, NY
2006     Kasia Kay Art Projects Summer Show, Summer Show, Chicago, IL
             Scope  Art New York 2006, Cinemascope, Kasia Kay Art Projects, New York, NY
             Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2005     Scope Art New York 2005, Kasia Kay Art Projects, New York, NY
             Scope Art New York 2005, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Miami, FL
2004     New Context Gallery, Eyes on Pilsen, Chicago, IL
             New Context Gallery, Tasteful Art on Armitage, Chicago, IL
             Global Art Salon A-1, Salsa In The Sky, Chicago IL
             New Context Gallery, Art Show, Chicago IL
2001     The Chicago Athenaeum, The Children of Chernobyl Project, Chicago, IL
2000     Museum of Architecture and Design, Contemporary Polish Artists Schaumburg IL
1999     Northwestern University CCT Gallery, Chasing Shadows, Chicago, IL
1998     Contemporary Art Gallery, Selected Gallery Collection, Lomza, Poland
             Osowiec Outdoor Gallery, Natural Scene, Osowiec, Poland
             Officer’s Club Gallery, Second Annual National Painting Retreat, Lomza. Poland
1997     Northeast Poland Regional Museum, Horses in Art, Lomza Poland
1996     Hokin Annex In-The- Works Gallery, EXIT, Chicago, IL
             Hilton Hotel, Tesol International Exhibition, Chicago, IL
1994     Eclectic Junction, Primitives, Chicago, IL
             Del Bello Gallery, Gallery 788, Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Toronto
             National Academy of Fine Arts, Work Show ’94, Wroclaw, Poland
1993     National Academy of Fine Arts, Work Show ’93, Wroclaw, Poland
             Contemporary Theater, Worship Book, Wroclaw, Poland
1992     The Club of Book and Press, Olesnica ’92, Olesnica, Poland
             National Academy of Fine Arts, Work Show ’92, Wroclaw, Poland
 
Publications:  
Magazyn Plus, Chicago, IL, September 2006
New Art Examiner, Reviews, Chicago, IL, Febuary 2000
Osowiec ’98, Zup Libra Print, Lomza, Poland, 1998
Contacts, Lomza, Poland, 1996
Morning News, Happiness Lives, Bialystok, Poland, April 1994
Contemporary News: I don’t have to follow, Bialystok, Poland, April 1994
Lomza w  Malarstwie, Zup Libra Print, Lomza, Poland 1994
 
Collections:    
Chicago History Museum, Chicago, USA
Museum of Archeology, Wroclaw, Poland
Museum in Ciechanowic, Ciechanowiec, Poland
North-East Museum of Poland, Lomza, Poland
Museum in Nowogrod, Nowogrod, Poland
Polish Museum of America, Chicago
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