Janusz Skowron (b. 1958), Nude, 2012
Mixed media on paper, 52 x 42 cm (frame) / 39 x 29 cm (inside the mat).
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Purchased directly from the artist.
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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 City, USA, since 1989. In Poland, he studied at the Institute of Art Education at UMCS in Lublin, where he earned his diploma in 1983 in the lithography studio under Prof. Danuta Kołwzan-Nowicka. Among other things, he is a co-founder of the Lublin-based “Galeria KONT” (1978) and the New York-based Shtooka Gallery (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.
