MACK ALLEN, Palm Street, 2021

oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, signed.

Allen Mack(b. 2001) is a young generation artist who developed his painting craft both at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the University of Arts in Poznan. His paintings are an astute observation of reality, thus distinguished by his sense of humor, expression, texture and painting fleshiness. Allen Mack's New Reality work points to the dualisms present in the world: utopia and dystopia, past and future, man and machine, organics and technology. Allen Mack addresses current issues concerning the condition of the modern world and society. Allen Mack's paintings primarily point out the paradoxes present in the world, resulting from critical observation of the world's social and political situation. He does not shy away from pop-cultural references, creating characters that have captured the collective imagination of the younger generation. He places their images in new contexts of the existing order, creating his own fantastic world.As of 2019, he is a member and co-founder of the art collective MZS - Young Talented Sex Workers and co-founder of the Furnace Gallery in Poznań.