Piece description from the artist
"Path of the Sun" is my attempt to blend the real with the surreal. I've painted a landscape that's familiar, but with a twist – the sun's reflection is stretched out, like a time-lapse photograph. It's not just one moment, but many, captured in a single image.
I build up my paintings with thin layers of oil glazes. Each layer interacts with the ones below, creating a depth that changes depending on how you look at it. It's a slow process, but I find it meditative.
In my work, I'm always balancing between what I see in nature and what I imagine. This piece is part observation, part allegory. The path of light in the water could be just a reflection, or it might mean something more – I leave that up to the viewer.
Winston Chmielinski (b. 1988 in Boston, MA) engages with painting through organic dissolutions and reconstitutions of the figure. Forms forego their contours, suspending Chmielinski's paintings out of narration and into insistence—of paint, of presence, and of perception.
Following a decade of critically acclaimed solo presentations in EU and US, inclusion in the 2013+2017 Venice Biennales, and spotlights at VOLTA NY, The Armory Show NY, Liste, and Positions Berlin, Winston now helms a creative studio in Berlin and is preparing a new body of work, to be released in 2023.
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