Beautiful cityscapes of Chicago, lively people, vibrant colors & sound of the streets- these are the things that played a part in shaping the young boy who later became a well-known Cityscape artist. He has canvased streets of Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Italy, Worcester & many more cities & art collectionists love his paintings with vibrant colors and lively cityscapes.
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| Nick Paciorek |
At the age of life when other children were enthralled by baseball tournaments at Wrigley Field, Paciorek was bewitched by brightness around him- colors of the field, the bleachers & the people watching the game. Unlike other children, Nick spent plenty of time in visiting art exhibits. His favorite place was an Impressionism collection at a museum in downtown Chicago, where he used to visit again and again wowed by ability of an artist to control the world on canvas simple through choice of colors & shapes. Eventually, Matisse became his central inspiration for the art he is obsessed with now.
Nick didn't realize the art that laid inside him till he was fourteen when he had first intense experience of colors that made him realize that one day he would become an artist.
Nick Pacioreck gives his paintings an emotional impact by using broad strokes of brilliant colors when painting the hard-edged cityscapes. Each of Paciorek's painting is bright & vivid interpretation of his subject. He uses audacious palette to craft the beautiful cityscapes reflecting his own mood. Usually Nick prefers to create paintings without figures as figures can change the mood of painting completely.
Nick Paciorek admits that he is little partial to reds, yellows & oranges but at the time when he is drawing cityscapes. He always tries to represent the emotion that he is feeling while drawing it. The only color that Nick avoids to use is Black. He says that black frustrates him and creates a sense of fear. Rather than using usual colors to depict an object, Nick Paciorek uses vibrant, unusual colors that instantly grabs your attention. You will hardly see the green grass in his paintings, he would use pink of shades of red instead for that!
Basically there are three components of Nick Paciorek's paintings, one is the subject itself, another is color & the third is lighting. While color sets the emotions, light sets the mood as per Nick. He is captivated by active skylines, busy streets & hard edges that is central subject for most of his paintings. He is fascinated & influenced by the relationships of one building to another and immediacy of light hitting a building in certain way.
A resident of Chicago for most of his life, Nick Paciorek eventually settled in the Providence, Rhodes Island area for reaping the wealth of subject matter at there. During the early 1980s he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he graduated from Maryland Institute's College of Art in 1985.
Nick has had both group & solo shows at Foxhall gallery in Washington DC. He has held his exhibits in various cities throughout the US including Chicago, Providence, Rhodes Island, and Philadelphia. Nick now maintains a studio in Providence.
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