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Adam Rupniewski
About
born 29.08.1958 Warsaw, Poland.
Living and enjoying absurd of life in Oregon, USA.
My art reflects my interests and thought processes which materialize into different forms. During the process of creation I find deeper connections to reality and its paradoxical aspects that escape rational definition. I seek an intuitive grasp of a particular moment and at the same time situate myself in it.
My work is very diverse and eclectic. I rely on different techniques and materials, using them according to the needs of the subject. I feel as comfortable with oil, watercolor and acrylic paint, as with welded steel, plaster and other materials. In some works, as in my installations, I combine different elements and techniques to achieve my objectives. Other times I focus on one technique like oil crayons, oil and acrylic paint. The abstract and the realistic are interwoven in my art. I go from one to the other depending upon what the subject matter suggests for its' execution.
In my installations I am interested in the relationship of objects to other objects as well as objects to space. I find aesthetic value in proportion and geometrical arrangements, which sometimes are accompanied by performance and soundtracks that I produce as well. Music, my life long interest, inspires me in the final execution of my installations, with which I seek to evoke purely visual contemplations.
In my oil crayons cycle Physiology of Dreams I explore subtle aspects of human imagination, not from a surrealistic context, but from on an intuitive emotional level; and more as an impression than a story to tell. I am not aiming for "realistic" dreams, as are depicted in symbols and painted forms that are analyzed. I try instead to capture the elusive feelings that sometimes accompany us just upon awakening, where the essence of a dream evaporates leaving only a dry memory of it. Physiology of Dreams provides me with new possibilities to explore the oil crayon technique and make visible the poetic aspect of life as dream.
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- Location
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- Website
- http://www.adam.rupniewski.dew.pl/index.html
adam rupniewski
Education
Portland State University College: Fine & Performing Arts-School
Major: Art: Sculpture
Degree Awarded: Master of Fine Arts Degree Date: 15-AUG-1998
Portland State University College: Fine & Performing Arts-School
Major: Art: Drawing/Pntng/Prntmkng
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Arts Degree Date: 09-DEC-1995
Exhibitions
2008 Physiology of Dreams Maurice Floral - at Bank Of America, 121 SW Morrison St. Portland, OR.
2008 Echo Installation Maurice Floral - at Bank Of America, 121 SW Morrison St. Portland, OR.
2008, June, installations - "theory OF nothing" and "iTeraTion", Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Portland , Oregon.
2008, March, installation "iTeraTion" March, Diva, Eugene, Oregon.
2008, February - April, Three Contemporary Polish-American Artists: Robert Kameczura, Jadwiga Jarosiewicz and Adam Rupniewski H.F.Johnson Art Gallery at
Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
2008, February,Faculty Show Clatsop
Community College, Astoria, Oregon.
2007/2008 Goodbye to Shipyard
- collective art show in Colony of Artists at PGR ART, Gdask,
Poland.
2007 Installation Odbicie , PGR ART, Gdask, Poland.
2006 Some Work - Private Show, Portland, OR.
2006 Physiology of dreams, Bohio Studio, Portland, OR
2006 Poegnanie, Mode Miasto, Gdask, Poland.
2006 Fizjologia Snw, Strefa, Sopot, Poland.
2005 Grafika, Soho Gallery, Sopot, Poland.
2005 Installation FNY, PGR Art Gallery, Gdask, Poland.
2005 "Physiology of Dreams" Biel, Switzerland.
1998 Installation theory OF nothing, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1997 P.S.U Graduate Program, Behenke Gallery, Cornish Collage of The Arts, Seattle, WA
1997 P.S.U Graduate Program, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR.
1985 Landscapes, Hameln, Germany.
1984 Rebel Art, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, Germany.
1980 Mental Cut, Stodoa, Warszawa, Poland.
Public Work
"Adavakra" steel sculpture, Portland State University, Smith Center, Browsing Room.
"From The Book of Job" steel and plaster panel, Portland State University, Smith Center, Browsing Room.
"The Thinker" sculpture, Portland State University, Branford P. Millar Library.
"?" - marmurino panel, Portland State University, Branford P. Millar Library.
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Portfolio
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