Janusz Skowron (b. 1958), An Old Hen in the Land of Butterflies, 2012
Pencil on paper, 43 x 53 cm (framed), 26.7 x 34.2 cm (inside the mat).
Signed, dated, and titled in the lower right corner.
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Janusz Skowron—painter, draftsman, and organizer of the arts. He was born in 1958 in Kolbuszowa. He has lived in New York, USA, since 1989. In Poland, he studied at the Institute of Art Education at UMCS in Lublin, where he received his diploma in 1983 from the lithography studio led by Prof. Danuta Kołwzan-Nowicka. Among other things, he is a co-founder of the “Galeria KONT” in Lublin (1978) and the Shtooka Gallery in New York (2006), as well as the founder of the A.R. Gallery (2013). From 2007 to 2017, he organized exhibitions at the Starbucks art café (125 shows). In 2008, he was a co-organizer and participant in the international exhibition “Entropy of Art.” In the U.S., he has been a member of the international multimedia art group EMOTIONALISM (since 1999), an artist at New York’s New Century Gallery and the PIASA Institute, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Piłsudski Institute. He has participated in over two hundred solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (Poland, the U.S., France, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, China, and South Korea). In the United States, he has frequently served as an exhibition curator and promoter of Polish art. He works in painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography.
[JR]
