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PAUL SISETSKI - Consider The Considering When All Things Have Been Considered
Reception: Saturday May 25, 2-4PM
May 25 - June 29
Art Placement hosts "Consider The Considering, When All Things Have Been Considered", an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Paul Sisetski. Sisetski has exhibited with the gallery in the past, we are delighted to have him back for this special guest exhibition, a reintroduction that includes both past and recent works.
Paul Sisetski’s work is immediately striking for its rawness. His subjects are rendered roughly with speed and forceful energy, paint applied in confident yet unruly strokes. The figures in his scenes are as energetic as his brushstrokes. Most often active and in motion, their bodies are stretched and perspectivally distorted, limbs elastically extended or bluntly foreshortened. Coming out of the expressionist tradition, Sisetski uses exaggerated color, frenetic marks, and twisting forms to achieve a visceral, emotional impact.
Considering Sisetski’s rough style and eccentric forms, it is tempting to place his work within the category of outsider or naive art. The designation is not entirely out of order, if nothing else giving some recognition to his identity as an artist with cerebral palsy. What such labels fail to acknowledge, however, is Sisetski’s insider status within the artistic community. He completed an MFA in 1995 and has been the focus of two solo exhibitions at the Mendel Art Gallery in 1990 and 2006. As a young man he traveled Europe, immersing himself in the paintings of Old and Modern Masters. He integrates his study of art history into his work with nods to Bosch, Bruegel, Daumier, Goya, Munch, Schiele, Soutine, and others. For Sisetski, art has been a means of communication but also a place of belonging.
Paul Sisetski was born in McCreary, Manitoba and currently resides in Saskatoon. He completed a BFA in 1989 and MFA in 1995 at the University of Saskatchewan. He has exhibited his work throughout the province in group and solo shows since the late 1980s. His works can be found in private and public collections locally and nationally, notably the University of Saskatchewan, SK Arts (Saskatchewan Arts Board), Mendel Art Gallery, and the Canada Council Art Bank.
Paul Sisetski, Jester's Night Out, 2021.
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