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Paul Chojnowski
Paul Chojnowski was born in New England and attended Hobart College
in Geneva, New York where he received his Bachelor of Arts in
painting and art history. He studied briefly at the Kansas City
Art Institute where he took courses from Warren Rosser and Stanley
Lewis. He began his career in the 80’s while living in Atlanta
and has since returned to his native Berkshire Hills of western
Massachusetts.
Chojnowski's work has evolved over the years through a period
of geometric abstraction to incorporate his figurative academic
training. Throughout his career a distinguishing characteristic
has been the use of non traditional media and tools in his art
making. His current work, images burned into paper and wood, is
an extension of that predisposition; these burned drawings or
pyrographs evolved as a result of his conscious effort to embrace
art historical traditions while rejecting the traditional processes.
In the early 90’s Chojnowski was working on wood panels
with wax and raw pigments when he found he could burn marks into
the surface of the wood using torches. Abandoning abstraction,
having exhausted its possibilities Chojnowski began burning and
scorching wood and paper to create his images. He first showed
the pyrographs in Atlanta in 1993. The critical and curatorial
response to his work lead to Chojnowski receiving an Alternative
Visions Grant in 1994 and a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts in 1996. . In 1997 he returned to the Berkshire
Hills of western Massachusetts where he continues to reside and
work. Chojnowski had his first solo exhibition in New York at
Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery in September 1999.
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Paul Chojnowski
Night in the City, 2004
Pyrograph on Paper
22 x 30 inches
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01482 |
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Paul Chojnowski
From the Ponce (looking South), 2004
Pyrograph on Paper
20 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches
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01270 |
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Paul Chojnowski
From the Ponce (looking North), 2004
Pyrograph on Paper
19 3/4 x 27 1/2 inches
01269 |
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Paul Chojnowski
Broadway Revisited, 2004
Pyrograph on Paper
22 x 30 inches
01483 |
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Paul Chojnowski
Edifice Series VI, 2005
Pyrograph
15 x 22 inches
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02606 |
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Paul Chojnowski
Atlanta Nocturne - Peachtree & 10th Street,
2005
Pyrograph
15 x 22 inches
02604
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Paul Chojnowski
Edifice Series - Double Portrait, 2005
Pyrograph
15 x 22 inches
02605 |
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Paul Chojnowski
Atlanta Nocturne - 14th Street, 2005
Pyrograph
15 x 22 inches
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02603 |
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Paul Chojnowski
Nocturn Reflection, 2006
Pyrograph on paper
22 x 30 inches
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04132 |
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Paul Chojnowski
Edifice Complex - Midtown Atlanta, 2006
Pyrograph
30 x 40 inches
03655 |
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Paul Chojnowski
Dusk in the City, 2004
Pyrograph on Paper
22 x 30 inches
01481 |
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