Dariusz Pala, Birthday of Friendship

mixed technique on paper, 52x41 cm

The artist was born in 1967 in Częstochowa. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Graphic Arts and Lithography under Prof. Roman Żygulski, where he received his diploma in 1992. In 1993 he settled in Warsaw, and already in 1998 he moved to the United States, from where he returned in 2010. In 2015 he received a doctorate in fine arts on the basis of a theoretical work enriched with 16 objects - paintings. He creates figural compositions, still lifes, abstractions, and also creates spatial forms from wood, plexiglass, metal. Characteristic of his art are strong contrasting colors, most preferably three primary colors. It is on this triad that he has built the distinctive aesthetics of his paintings. He has had dozens of solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.