“I choose to be in permanent evolution and revolution at once. Like Vesuvius, my creativity and energy flows.”- Piotr Strelnik

In an industrial district of Paris, Piotr Strelnik paints on the concrete floor of his
studio, which permits him to view his paintings from multiple perspectives and anables manipulation of his materials without concern for gravity. He catalogues the everday objects of his own life.

“Strelnik’s explosively colored paintings challenge the polarity between abstraction and representation. Strelnik insists that ‘there’s more to painting than the canvas and the viewer.

The intermediaries..the paint, the materials, the canvas...possess a spirit. This is the transcendence of painting.

Piotr says, “My canvases are at once figurative and abstract, a collection of abstractions which comprise a figurative canvas. This gives my work dynamism: It lives in two worlds.’ This tension reflects Strelnik’s own divided heritage as both a Polish and French artist and embodies the dialogue between his poetic sensibility and his intellectual outlook.

Strelnik’s technical approach is characterized by a joyful experimentation with color, material and scale. Wrestling with the dimensions of time and space, he layers his oil and acrylic works with sand, gauze, sawdust, and other
textured matter.

His canvases preserve the interdisciplinary outlook of his artistic upbringing, expanding the boundaries of painting to include a sculptural, even theatrical sensibility.