Andrzej Zielinski is in a group show at Motus Fort, Tokyo. Titled No One in Particular, Except… the show runs from 20 August – 10 September 2011.

“Ultimately photography and Picasso liberated portraiture from the limiting likeness of the sitter or the exaggerated caricature of an intended target willing or otherwise. No One in Particular, Except… mixes portraits in paint that are more than just pigment suspended in medium. Some artists paint with glitter and others with technology or hate, while others are incorporating paint onto objects— moving off of canvas and onto to forms like coconuts, fugu and stones— others employ collage, in fabric, plaster, shadow, hemp and including, human residue, some aim for abstraction. Incidentally only one self-portrait is included; the Artist uses a multiplicity of materials that exemplify his identity.  Portraiture in the last 100+ years is transforming into an open and exciting field to explore as we engage international and artistic pluralism in this new millennium.”

Artists: Chikako Miyata, Chris Jahncke, Alan Van Every, Andrew Guenther, Yuval Barel, Dan Kopp, Jay Davis, travis, Tai Ogawa, Andrzej Zielinski, Thom Smith

Gallery 9 is proud to present an exhibition by American born, Berlin based artist Andrzej Zielinski whose vivid paintings depict everyday electronic devices such as mobile phones, laptops, ATM machines and paper shredders.

Painted with thick gestural paint in bright confectionary colours, these works comment on the ever expanding reverence contemporary society has for technology and information. Zielinski references the art historical notion of the readymade and the history of abstract painting. Depicted at a 1:1 ratio as compared to the actual objects, these paintings display a distortion between actual and perceived space which in turn highlights our dependence on machines with constantly updating functions and capabilities.

Zielinski seeks to update painting by using 21st century acrylics, gels and mediums and his unique painting style means each scrape of the palatte knife simultaneously suggests description, abstraction and bas-relief. Currently completing a visiting artist residency at ANU, Canberra, this young artist has received much critical attention in the USA. In 2009 New York art critic Jerry Saltz named Zielinski as one of 33 notable American artists to have emerged after 1999.

Born in 1976 in Kansas City, USA, Zielinski completed his BFA at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and his MFA at Yale University in 2004. He has been in numerous group shows across the USA such as *Greater New York at PS1 MOMA. Previous solo exhibitions include Motus Fort, Tokyo, DCKT Contemporary New York City, The Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles.