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Artist: Paul Chojnowski
Straight into Night
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. Burned pieces by Paul Chojnowski.
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that t...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Archival Paper
Mountain Birches
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Birch, Wood
Woodland Lake
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Birch, Wood
Light in the Pines
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Birch, Wood
Fading Light Winter
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Birch
View Vall II
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Lacquer, Birch
Hemlock Trail, Autumn
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Birch
Nearing Sunset, Summer
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Birch
Spring Arabesque II
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Lacquer, Birch
Birches: Edge of the Field
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the proces...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Lacquer, Birch
Views of the Valley
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the proces...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Lacquer, Birch
Birches in the Glen
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the proces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Lacquer, Birch
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The artist was born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College
2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA.
Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum
2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT
2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA
Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA.
2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA
2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA
2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC
Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press,
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca
1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American
Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA
1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA
1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition)
Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA
1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA
Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY
New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA
1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”,
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY
1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit
1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY
1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA
Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ
1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA
Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX
The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/
William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery
Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y.
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize)
1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ
1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery,
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA
California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA
A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA
California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA
1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Swissre Corporation, NY
The Insurance Company of North America
First National Bank of Midland, Texas
Commerce Bank
AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Hughes Tool, Houston, TX
ATT, NY
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL
Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Republic National Bank
Chevron
Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA
U.S. Insurance Group, N.J.
Southwestern Bell Corp., MO
Union Bank
Pacific Bell
United States Trust Company, NY
The United Bank of Denver, CO
Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
Bank of America, NY
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO
Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Goldman Sachs, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY
Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX
NYNEX, NY
Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA
TransAmerica Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation
U.S. Trust
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Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. John Irvin, London, England Ms. Joan Didion, New York , NY
Ms. Sabrina Guinness, London, Eng.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hills, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duchin
Ms. Linda Ronstadt
Ms. Faye Dunaway
Mr . Peter Morton
Mrs H.J. Heinze, New York, NY
Mr. Rupert Lowenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emery, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Earl Mc Grath, New York, NY
Mr. Nat Weiss, New York, NY
Mr. Luca Barilla
Mr. Bruce Schnietzer, New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll, New York, NY
Mrs. Nicholas Boyd, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Chappy Morris, New York, NY
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Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Caplow, Los Angeles, CA
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Mr. Michael Nesmith, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Griffen Dunne, New York, N.Y.
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Mr. N.J. Friedman, Hillsborough, CA
Mr. Harold Hollingsworth...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paul Chojnowski Art
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Birches (Small, Realistic Landscape of Birch Forest on Panel, Burned Drawing)
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
Realistic horizontal landscape of a Birch forest on Baltic Birch panel made with a blow torch
Burned drawing on panel, naturally sepia toned
6.25 x 18 inches unframed, sides are bur...
Category
2010s Modern Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Plywood
Moutain Birches (Realistic Landscape of a Birch Forest, Burned Drawing on Panel)
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
Realistic landscape of a Birch forest on Baltic Birch panel made with a blow torch
Burned drawing on panel, naturally sepia toned
30 x 40 inches unframed
32.5 x 42.5 inches in custo...
Category
2010s Modern Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Birch, Wood Panel
H 32.5 in W 42.5 in D 1.5 in
Looking Up Lex (Manhattan Cityscape Drawing of Nighttime on Lexington Ave.)
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
Beautiful New York City cityscape drawing made with burned and scorched paper
22 x 15 inches unframed
Perhaps the single most fascinating thing about this painting is the artist's choice of medium: water and fire. There is no sepia tone, no pigment, no watercolor. The artist paints iconic views of New York City and other famous American cities with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Archival Paper
H 22 in W 15 in D 0.5 in
From the Rooftops (New York City Urban Fire Drawing on Paper)
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
From the Rooftops (New York City Urban Fire Drawing on Paper) by Paul Chojnowski
A contemporary urban skyline at night time
Made with burned and scorched paper
11 x 18 inches, 18 x 25 x 1.5 inches framed in black walnut stained wood frame
Perhaps the single most fascinating thing about this painting is the artist's choice of medium: water and fire. There is no sepia tone, no pigment, no watercolor. The artist paints iconic views of New York City and other famous American cities with a wet brush on paper that he then burns with a blow torch to add contrast and hue. Bright headlights on yellow taxis illuminate the streets with such vibrancy that the work almost appears to be backlit.
Throughout Chojnowski's career a distinguishing characteristic has been the use of nontraditional media and tools in his art making. His current work, images burned into paper and wood evolved as a result of his conscious effort to embrace art historical traditions while rejecting the traditional processes. Chojnowski began burning and scorching wood and paper to create his images in the early 1990’s.
Since then, his fire drawings have been shown in group and solo exhibitions in art centers, museums and galleries nationally. His work was part of the set decoration on the Scott Hicks film No Reservations, starring Catherine Zeta-Jone and Aaron Eckhart and the Nancy Meyers film It's Complicated starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. A documentary titled AGLOW about his life has been shown at film festivals around North America recently.
In 2013 Chojnowski's work was part of exhibitions titled illuminators at OK Harris Works of Art and SUB urban at Smart Clothes Gallery both located in New York. He was selected to be the first Artist in Residence at WATERFIRE Sharon, in western Pennsylvania where an exhibition of his fire drawings took place in October 2013. In 2014 his work was selected for the inaugural exhibition Figuring In at the Berkshire Artist Museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, home of MASS MoCA. In the autumn a fire drawing acquired by the University of Arizona Art Museum will be part of the exhibition A Continuing Legacy: Gallagher Purchases.
During the summer and fall of 2015 his work was in the first exhibition at the Fresh Paint Gallery, part of the Berkshire Artist Museum in North Adams, Massachusetts and in WAVELENGTH: THE ART OF LIGHT at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tuscon. It was followed by a solo exhibition titled New and Selected Work at the C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts in Cumberland, Maryland that opened in October.
In 2016 the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY mounted a solo show titled Paper, Plywood and Light. During the summer Bright Ideas Brewing in North Adams, MA hosted an exhibition his Infrastructure Series. Both exhibitions featured new drawings on plywood and illuminated drawings on paper.
Artist statement:
Walking after dark in the light filled streets of American cities like Boston, New York and Chicago has been my inspiration for an ongoing series of work I call Nocturnes. As a pedestrian one is aware of being surrounded by the rich array of sights and sounds. I have no interest in a studied representation of a street scene per say. My intent with this series has always been to capture a memory, a fleeting moment of what I saw from the corner of my eye as I made my way amidst the bustling city dwellers. Visually, my subject is light: taxi headlights reflecting off wet pavement, neon blaring and shop or apartment windows aglow. I love the energy of the city after dark and I hope to some extent to have captured it in works like On the Street and Out of the Darkness.
Artist CV:
2016 Paper, Plywood & Light, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 New & Selected Work, Gilchrist Museum of the Arts, Cumberland, MD
2013 Fire Drawings, James E. Winner Jr. Arts Culture Center, Sharon, PA
2012 NIGHT I LIGHT, James Gallery, Pittsburgh
2011 Searchlights & other works Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008 Town and Country, Hubert Gallery, New York
Selected Work, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta
2007 Natural and Unnatural Disasters, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston
2005 More Pictures About Buildings and Food, Naoussa Gallery, Tyringham, MA
2004 New Work, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd, New York
New Work, PLUM Gallery, Williamstown, MA
Nudes and Nocturnes, Smart Duval Gallery, Aspen
2003 Threadlines, Naoussa Gallery, Tyringham, MA collaborations Scott Sandell
2002 Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport Atrium Gallery
2001 Revealed by Fire, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York
and Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta
2000 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago
Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta
1999 Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York
1997 Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta
1996 Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
1995 AGIARY, Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta, collaboration with Kevin Haller
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, collaboration with Kevin Haller
1993 New Work, Macon & Co. Fine Art, Atlanta
Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
1991 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1989 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
2018 Landscapes: Capturing the View, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2016 IS 183 Faculty Show, Williamstown, MA
2015 WAVELENGTH: THE ART OF LIGHT, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson,
AZ
Fresh Paint, Berkshire Artist Museum, North Adams, MA Fence Select, Arts Center of the Capital District, Troy, NY
2015 CITYSCAPES, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2014 Figuring In, Rudd Art Museum, North Adams MA 2013 SUBurban, SMART CLOTHES Gallery, New York
illuminators, OK Harris Works of Art, New York
The Abstracted City, Hubert Gallery, New York
2012 WORKS ON PAPER, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2011 BLACK & WHITE, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco 2010 Pulp Friction, James Gallery, Pittsburgh
Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2009 Great Pretenders: An Exhibit of Art Fakery, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson
2008 Turn and Burn, The Gilchrist Gallery, Cumberland, MD
2006 New Visions, The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA
2005 NEW AMERICAN TALENT the twentieth exhibition, curated by Dan
Cameron, Arthouse, Austin, TX
Berkshire Biennale, The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
The City, Contemporary View of the Built Environment, Lehman College, Savoir Affair, Nemacolin Woodlands, Farmington, PA
Mapped, from here to there, Margaret Thatcher Projects, NY 2004 Night New York, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY
UNnatural, Full Spectrum Gallery, Lakewood, NJ 2003 flicker, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York
FLORA, Plum Gallery, Williamstown, MA
Painted City, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2002 Hot Art: Burning Images, Paul Chojnowski, John Cage and Andrew Bennett
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
ON THE MOVE: Transportation Imagery in Art, Swan Coach Gallery, Atlanta
FIREWORKS, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York
Fire, KGA Compound, Houston
2001 BURN: Artists Play with Fire, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach 1999 Westside Inaugural Exhibition, Macon & Company Fine Art, Atlanta 1998 Ink Jet, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
Earthly Visions, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 National Juried Exhibition, No BIAS Gallery, Bennington, VT
1997 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1997 New Artists, a baker’s dozen, Spazi Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA
Naked Landscape, Spazi Contemporary Art, Housatonic, MA
New Prints, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Berkshire Photography, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
Figure 8, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta
1996 17 Days of Olympic Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Archival Paper
H 18 in W 25 in D 1.5 in
City Lights XXXVI (Cityscape Drawing of New York City at Night in Wood Frame)
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
New York City cityscape drawing of traffic and lights at night
burned and scorched paper drawing
20 x 13 inches, 23 x 16 x 1.5 inches framed in black walnut stained wood frame
Perhaps the single most fascinating thing about this painting is the artist's choice of medium: water and fire. There is no sepia tone, no pigment, no watercolor. The artist paints iconic views of New York City and other famous American cities with...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Paper
City Lights #4 (Small Heat Transfer Print of NYC Night Traffic)
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
14 x 10 inches unframed, image size is 7 x 5 inches
$200.00
Heat transfer print
Limited Edition heat transfer prints of New York City neon lights at night...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Screen
City Lights #3 (Small Heat Transfer Print of NYC Night Traffic)
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
14 x 10 inches unframed, image size is 7 x 5 inches
$200.00
Heat transfer print
Limited Edition heat transfer prints of New York City neon lights at night...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Screen
City Lights #6
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
14" X 10"
$200.00
Heat transfer print
Image size 7" x 5", Paper size 14" x 10"
NYC, Manhattan, cityscapes, abstract cityscapes, neon lights
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
City Lights #1
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
14" X 10"
$200.00
Heat transfer print
Image size 7" x 5", Paper size 14" x 10"
NYC, Manhattan, cityscapes, abstract cityscapes, neon lights
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
Dusk on the Balcony
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
burned and scorched drawing on paper
Artist Statement:
Walking after dark in the light filled streets of American cities like Boston, New York and Chicago has been my inspiration...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
Materials
Paper
City Lights XXXVI
By Paul Chojnowski
Located in Hudson, NY
burned and scorched paper
23 x 16 inches framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Chojnowski Art
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