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Adjacent To Life, presents Small Works by Peter Stankiewicz .
Leon Brown writes:
Artist Peter Stankiewicz returns with his latest selection of sculptures completed between January 2020 and April 2025.
Stankiewicz states: "What you see here are the results in a long process of refinement. The arrangement is a grammar of sculpture, presenting a versatile and harmonious set of possibilities. But dont believe everything you read."
Utilizing plastic as a foundational element, Stankiewicz forms these pieces and meticulously layers airbrushed acrylic paint, embedding them within the grounding presence of cement. While this description offers a glimpse into his process, it only begins to suggest the attention to detail showing through subtle shifts in color, texture, and a precision of construction that rewards intimate viewing.
Each work is a manifestation of witness, wind, rain and sunlight, forms existing like epochs of time, interwoven but never touching. Human frailty and transience revealed to us through rust, shape and space. Approach these sculptures closely, linger and allow the layers of color and the exactingness of Stankiewicz's execution to present.
Small Works is on view through June 13, 2025 at the Adjacent To Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City). Artist's reception: Saturday, May 18, 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
Two paintings from a (still to be fully realized, perhaps) series based on front page photographs from the New York Times.
