Gary Kwiatek's Artography Website

Welcome To Gary Kwiatek's Offical Website

Many of us spend our lives searching for purpose. Striving for that often illusive something that makes us feel alive, challenged, whole, connected and when all is said and done that we’ve made an uplifting contribution to the world and humanity. Throughout that relatively short span of time, our purpose is reevaluated and scrutinized, reshaped and refined, and if we get out of our own way ultimately our expansion realized. It seems as though we are either dragged along for this unfolding kicking and screaming in our fearfully misguided resistance, or happily follow our natural flow downstream. Today, I choose to resist and control less and am learning to release the oars more. So here I lie, reclined in my boat, face to the sky, loving the ride towards my truer self. My purpose.

Artist Vision Statement

I am a teacher. We are all teachers.
The images I share are my humble attempt
to teach your eyes to see again, or perhaps for the first time.
To see what they may have forgotten, or overlooked,
or missed around the corner. To see what I see.
I tell stories without words.
I capture fragments of time and place. I stir feelings.
Feelings of oneness, innocence, love.
I do not create.
That magnificent gift is abundantly spilled out before me,
in saturated colors and textures I could never have imagined.
I experiment. I flex my software muscles,
but work hard at holding on to the essence.
These images are simply the truth. My truth.
Perhaps your truth too.
I do this, because until I did I never felt such sustained peace.
May these images bring you peace.
~GAK~

Gary Kwiatek Mr. Kwiatek was born in Chicago, Illinois but raised and educated in Los Angeles, California. He has lived 30 years of his life in the field of Performing Arts, as an entertainer and vocalist. Working for the Walt Disney Company in Orlando, Florida for 20 years, he achieved relative success and been afforded opportunities to work with those most respected in that industry. In 2001 he relocated back to Los Angeles to pursue his further education and continued spiritual unfolding, this time in the Visual Arts and specifically Digital Photography.

"This is the precise time for all Artists to visualize a beautiful and healthy world, and to share that vision. Art can create that reality." ~GAK~

His love of travel, his interests in various cultures and her people, and his personal search for purpose, all contribute to his passion for this expression. He considers his 'Artographic' style, Eclectic Realism. He currently markets to interior designers and personal collections, and believes in making his work accessible for all demographic and economic levels, as well as participating in benefit exhibitions. Mr. Kwiatek believes that the Arts in any form, transcend borders and beliefs, and ultimately act as a unifying tool for all of humanity. Personally, he looks forward to the opportunities the Photographic Arts will draw to him so that he may learn more about himself and all people. He currently divides his time between San Jose, Costa Rica and Los Angeles. Currently, to push the boundaries of his own artistic expression and abilities, the artist has begun to personally reproduce his own works in Oil on canvas.

COMMISSION ME

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Every year, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honors the best of that media. As not all nominees receive the EMMY award, each network often offers a token remembrance to each nominee in congratulations for their contribution to their Network and to Television history. FOX Television had the insight to consider a more personal and creative alternative to that tradition.

For the past four years, Mr. Kwiatek has been commissioned by FOX Television, to create a Limited Edition Art-Piece as their congratulatory gift for their EMMY Nominees. Mr. Kwiatek's 'EMMY Tribute Piece' is his homage to this most respected and prestigious Organization that is the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Some of the Nominees that now hold a Limited Edition Piece are Kiefer Sutherland, Jean Smart, Hugh Laurie, Ryan Seacrest, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, Ron Howard and Marge & Homer Simpson, from such hit shows as American Idol, The Simpson's, 24 and House.

Mr. Kwiatek is currently taking commissions to create a unique gift for your Company's special event or Annual Awards Ceremony. Contact us for specific information and requirements.

RESTORATIONS

As a side interest to my Digital Photographic Art, I also do digital restoration of photographs and certificates. I find this type of work immensely gratifying. With today's computer software like PhotoShop, PhotoSuite and Arcsoft, I have the ability to restore what may have been considered a 'lost treasure' to a look like a 'new jewel'. Please contact me for details on my requirements for this process, as well as pricing and format information. Each restoration is case specific.

What I See

To further realize the Artists conception of his subject, a photo editing software application is applied to each of his original digital photographs. The software application enables the Artist to accentuate aspects of each image, which personalizes his vision of the subject. What results is a beautifully unique, stylized, photographic piece that guides the viewer beyond the limits of a traditional photograph.

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Personal Information

Costa Rica Representative: Edmond Scott ~ Creative Diversions, S.A.
Email: creativediversions@racsa.co.cr
Phone Number: (011) 506-2224-5989 / Mobile (011) 506-8328-9014
Artist Email: info@garykwiatek.com