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Gallery - Muses series 

Giaur

Giaur

by Dariusz Labuzek 97"H x 77"W x 0.1"D Acrylic, Ink, Oil on canvas, Un-stretched Available at Art Space 8 Gallery 900 North Michigan Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL at Four Seasons Hotel Building #horseart #figurative #artspace8

Moirai

Moirai

by Dariusz Labuzek 92"H x 64"W Acrylic, Ink, Oil on canvas Available at Art Space 8 Gallery 900 North Michigan Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL Four Seasons Hotel Building #fates #greekmyths #artspace8

Triglav

Triglav

by Dariusz Labuzek 114" H x 76" W Acrylic on canvas Available at Art Space 8 Gallery 900 North Michigan Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL Four Seasons Hotel building #trinity #slavicmythology #artspace8

Modesty

Modesty

by Dariusz Labuzek 48"H x 36"W x 1.5"D Acrylic, Ink, Oil on canvas, Stretched SOLD #figurativkonst #figuratievekunst #比喩的な

The Thinker

The Thinker

by Dariusz Labuzek 48"H x 36"W x 1.5"D Acrylic, Ink, Oil on canvas, Stretched SOLD #具象表现 #figurativeart #sanfranciscoartist

The Fates

The Fates

by Dariusz Labuzek 72"H x 40W Acrylic on canvas SOLD #figurativkonst #具象艺术 #artfiguratif

Akephalos

Akephalos

by Dariusz Labuzek 48"H x 36"W Acrylic on canvas SOLD #headless #figurativeart #figuratievekunst

The English Patient

The English Patient

by Dariusz Labuzek 88"H x 76"W Acrylic, Ink, Oil on canvas Stretched Available at Artspace 8 Gallery 900 North Michigan Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL Four Seasons Hotel Building #artspace8 #red #figurativeart

Tyr

Tyr

by Dariusz Labuzek 60"H x 40"W Acrylic on canvas SOLD #figurativkunst #norsemythology #godofwar

Devotion

Devotion

by Dariusz Labuzek Acrylic on canvas SOLD #figurativkunst #比喩的な #artfiguratif

Calliope

Calliope

by Dariusz Labuzek 40"H x 30"W Acrylic on canvas SOLD #kalliope #greekmuse #bayareaartist

Three Muses

Three Muses

by Dariusz Labuzek 48"H x 48"W Acrylic on canvas SOLD #figurative #expressionism #具象表现

Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet

by Dariusz Labuzek 72"H x 48"W x 1.5"D Acrylic on canvas, Stretched SOLD #romeoandjuliette #figurative #texturedart

Factory Built

Factory Built

by Dariusz Labuzek 76"H x 76"W x 1.5"D Acrylic on canvas, Stretched SOLD #seattleart #musicart #pianoart

Melody

Melody

by Dariusz Labuzek 108"H x 90"W Acrylic on canvas SOLD #figurative #pianoart #figuratievekunst

Solnste

Solnste

by Dariusz Labuzek Acrylic on canvas SOLD #slavicmythology #sungod #sfartist

Paris 1920

Paris 1920

by Dariusz Labuzek 95"H x 77"W Acrylic on canvas SOLD #figuratievekunst #구상 미술 #frenchmuse

Field of View

Field of View

by Dariusz Labuzek 36"H x 36"W x 0.7"D Acrylic on canvas, Available #экспрессионизм #expressionism #ekspresjonizm

Dariusz Labuzek’s primitive-style paintings are inherently figurative. Yet, their naive imagery is predominantly stylized and has an illustrative quality that is founded on an abstract painterly aesthetic. The juxtaposition of abstraction and figuration, and the fusion of mixed media, gestures, and symbols, make his work compelling. His figures were created as vessels to be filled with textures, colors, and ideas, captivating compositions that conspire to feed our curiosity and imagination.

Feeding a sculptural sensibility – possibly informed by his training as an architect and filmmaker – Labuzek repeats the same motifs in his paintings, yet each painting is utterly different. His starting point is the relationship between painterly concepts such as texture, color, line, and form; this play on ideas gives him space to explore how we see a painting, the depth, and nuance of the material, as well as the potential it has to manipulate how we view the picture plane. Some of his figures look like copper or collage-like cutouts, the rest more illustrative in nature.

This freedom of expression, of looking to articulate the emotional and poetic quality of an image through painterly concepts, is a subject that has preoccupied many artists throughout the 20th century, some of whom have laid the foundation for Labuzek’s own creative journey, such as Pablo Picasso, Antonio Tapies, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Agusti Puig, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Artur Nacht-Samborski, Cy Twombly, Zdzisław Beksinski, Jacek Göttel, Richard Diebenkorn, Jackson Pollock as well as Zhou Brothers, Roger Ballen, and Gerhard Richter. Labuzek continues in the tradition of these great artists, as a painter who is in love with his medium, in the possibilities that lie in brush and paint, in the potential that an abstract world of strange humanoid figures can lead us into a world that lightens up our imagination.

Dariusz was born in Poland and studied architecture at the Institute of Technology in Cracow. He immigrated to the United States in 1990 and attended a film and theater program at Humboldt State University in California. In 1992 he moved to Chicago, where he continued painting and developing his unique style of figurative expression. In 2016 he relocated to San Francisco Bay Area. Dariusz has exhibited for over two decades in various exhibitions, including galleries. His work is collected extensively across the world. My art studio closed permanently in 2024.

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