Robert Piatek
Location
United States
Robert Piatek is an American artist whose paintings have been exhibited in the United States. He relates his work as being the physical expression of his thoughts, feelings, meditations, and musings about life, the universe, alternate realities, and mystical worlds, as well as other unanswerable questions. Piatek's abstract expressionist pieces also give physical expression to his continuous search into who he really is and how he fits into this vast cosmos.
WORKS
Turbulence
Robert Piatek
This piece represents my emotional response to the turbulent world we are experiencing, the uncertainty of our future, wars, loss of live, suffering, natures violent response to our interference in the delicate balance she created over millions of years and much more. The process for this piece began by pinning a canvas to a plywood wall and then applying the paint with various sized heaving drywall knives. The paint was applied with force, driving it into the canvas in a swirling emotional manner. The canvas is heavy from the many tubes of paint applied thickly and scraped away and then more and more paint until the artist and paint and emotion were spent.
38"X44"
Point In Time
Robert Piatek
This painting imagines an instant in the ever changing, ever moving infinite and chaotic cosmos. The painting process begins in a similar random fashion. The paint, or charcoal is applied with great energy and sweeping thin strokes of brush or knife or stick until the canvas is filled with intersecting organic shapes. The process stops here for a time while I visually take in all of the gestures until I find elements that seem to work together. Form here color is applied in another round of energetic spurts. Color choices and placement come intuitively and are just experiments to see what might work with changes occurring on the fly. Most of the application of paint for this piece was done using various pallet knife shapes along with oil sticks. This process results in many overlaping layers of paint which creates texture and depth.
38"x44"
