Grzegorz Stec (b. 1955), Ms., 2014

Oil, canvas, 70 x 70 cm, signed p.d: Grzegorz Stec 2014

Grzegorz Stec - born in 1955 in Cracow, graduated from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in 1981. He had more than 70 solo exhibitions in major art galleries in Poland and abroad (USA, Sweden, Germany, France). For a number of years he exhibited in the USA - in Chicago and New York (1995-2009). He also had solo exhibitions at Polish diplomatic missions: at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York (2008), at the Polish Institute in Leipzig (2014), at Berlin's Galerie Abakus in cooperation with the Polish Embassy and the Polish Institute in Berlin (2015), and at The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York (2009),. About his work TVP made a film The smell of blackness torments me (1991, directed by Cezary Nowicki).

The artist occupies a separate place in contemporary art, between figurative art and abstraction. He has developed his own painting technique. He is called a master of light and an outstanding colorist by critics. He represents a type of visionary art that is born out of the tension between the spontaneity of subconscious vision and the ordering intellect, the violent outburst of emotion and the precision of form. He is also the creator of unique black oil paintings.