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Artist Statement
I was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1963. The youngest of six children born to Polish immigrant parents who came to start a new life in the United States after the horrors of World War II.
My earliest teacher became my father who was an architect. Learning and drawing with him,
I discovered my love of art.
Like many first generation Americans, my first language (in my case. Polish) was my parent’s.
My second language was English. And art became my third.

My family moved from the suburbs of Chicago to Cheyenne in 1973.
I attended elementary, Junior High, and High School here in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

In 1981, after graduation, I attended a 6 week course on Polish Art and History at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

I attended the University of Wyoming, and LCCC in Cheyenne before moving out to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1985.

In 1987, I enrolled and began studies at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, majoring in Advertising.

4 years later, I began working as an Art Director at one of the top Advertising agencies in the country.

For years I worked in the industry while continuing to study and hone my skills as an artist in my free time.

I left the field of Advertising and Graphic Design field after 15 years to concentrate my talents and skill towards my art.

In 2009, my wife and children and I moved to Cheyenne to raise our children in the same place I grew up in.

Since then I've continued my self study, and creating, learning, and sharing my art.

I was born an artist. It is as much to do with who I am, what I do, and how I see. I see it as my responsibility as an artist to reference all of our collective pasts and to illustrate the present moment in which we live.