Joseph Michalek, The Other Side

70x100cm
dry pastel/paper
2020

Born in Leipzig. Graduate of the State High School of Fine Arts in Kielce. Studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznan. He received his diploma in 1989. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Department of Art, Radom University of Technology in 2001. He creates in the fields of painting, graphics, drawing and scenography. For many years he headed the art studio at the Puppet and Actor Theater "Kubuś" in Kielce. He was an art teacher at the Teacher's College and High School in Solec nad Wisłą. He cooperated with various magazines and published drawings, graphics and satirical cartoons, among others in Kielce's "Echo Dnia". He organized and participated in plein-air art events and seminars on the latest art. Participant and initiator of numerous charity auctions for the benefit of the needy. He is engaged in theoretical recording of plastic-philosophical "activity" and defining selected issues of art and book illustration. He made a design for a monument dedicated to the fallen participants in the struggle for free Poland, which was unveiled in Solec nad Wisłą for the centennial of independence. He has presented his works in more than 30. solo exhibitions and more than 250. group exhibitions at home and abroad, including Italy, Russia, Germany, Georgia, USA, Serbia, Croatia, Egypt, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine. The artist's works are in official and private collections at home and abroad: in Canada, the USA, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany (...). He is a member of the Association of Polish Artists in Warsaw.