Recent Paintings | Jerzy Michalski
Recent Paintings
30 Nov -1
Presenting a departure from his oeuvre thus far, Jerzy Michalski's latest exhibition takes the artist's deft technique and insight from the metropolis to the interior. Contained and grand at once, the paintings reward the viewer with their grace and beauty but do not give everything away. Who belongs in these fine spaces? The interiors simultaneously have an air of expectation and absence, as if the people who occupy these rooms have only just left, or are about to enter.
In the tradition of the great European Masters, imbued with accents of his adopted homeland these paintings are thoughtful studies of space, colour, light and shade. Michalski's paintings acknowledge the role of the interior in shaping our experience of the everyday.
Drawing on his academic training and profession in Poland, Michalski has created a first class reputation throughout Australia, with regular exhibitions in leading galleries in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart, as well as European exhibitions in France, Belgium, Poland and Germany. He was offered Australian residency as a distinguished painter in 1992 and has lived in Tasmania since.
Jerzy Michalski is represented in many collections, including the Australian National University collection, the Parliament House Collection; the Tamar Collection of Launceston; the University of Washington, U.S.A; the Ditter Collection , Germany; the Academy of Fine Arts Poznan; the National Museum and Art Gallery , Gdansk; Silesia Museum and Katowice Museum and Art Gallery, the Museum and Art Gallery, Radom; the City Art Galleries Poznan, Bielsko Biala and Leszno and finally the National Museum and Art Gallery Plovdiv.
His work has been collected by private collectors in the USA, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, China, Poland, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.