Czeslaw Galuzny

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“I grasp the velvety texture of pastel crayon with my fingers, applying it to the paper from various angles, varying the pressure on the crayon with varying planes. It glides across the page, flowing with the delicacy of a moth, accentuating the significance of detail with stronger intervals.”

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Dream Home

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Town Market

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

The Old Town

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Indian Summer

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Marsh

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Magic Pond

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Magic Bird

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

Drinking Companion

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

To Climb the Moon

Pastels on Paper | 36" W × 24" H × " D

The King and I

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 38" H × " D

Tender Touch

Pastels on Paper | 24" W × 36" H × " D

In the Meadow

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Sunny Meadow

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Before the Rain

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

In the Old Country

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Soul Mates

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 22" H × " D

Black Cat

Pastels on Paper | 13" W × 20" H × " D

My Guardian Angel

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

The Green Couch

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 21" H × " D

In My Room

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Waiting for Love

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

Riding Along

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

The Mountain

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 22" H × " D

Singing in the Rain

Pastels on Paper | 22" W × 14" H × " D

Yellow Medow

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

Early Fall

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Afternoon Nap

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

The Dance

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Day Dreaming

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Music and Dance

Pastels on Paper | 22" W × 14" H × " D

Late Evening

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

The Pathway

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

After the Rain

Pastels on Paper | 22" W × 14" H × " D

Club of Hercules

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 19" H × " D

Yellow Bird

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

Cat Walk

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 19" H × " D

Little Bird

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 19" H × " D

Afternoon Delight

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 19" H × " D

City Walk

Pastels on Paper | 14" W × 22" H × " D

Free as a Bird

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 19" H × " D

Proposal

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

Cello Concert for Her

Pastels on Paper | 22" W × 14" H × " D

Pretty Bird

Pastels on Paper | 22" W × 14" H × " D
Fairy Tail Romance Sold

Fairy Tail Romance

Pastels on Paper | 27" W × 38" H × " D
Bicycle Made for Two Sold

Bicycle Made for Two

Pastels on Paper | 22" W × 14" H × " D
Dream Sold

Dream

Pastels on Paper | 19" W × 27" H × " D

BIOGRAPHY

“I tear apart the inner structure of the crayon, crushing it. With my fingertips, I rub clumps of dry paint, building patches of color. I close and open space with lines, saturating the page with the force or enigmatic delicacy of the line, leading it with an expressive gesture toward infinity. A thrill of emotion permeates the body with sensuality. This physicality imbues the paintings with a quiver, extracting joy and doubt from the passion for pastel. With chiaroscuro and pastel dust, the works created become pastel birds, flying away, seeking their own places.”

Born 1951 in Sosnowiec, Poland, where he still lives and works.

Born with a natural talent, Czeslaw Galuzny's artistic form is intuitively convincing. Galuzny has his own world of interest and intimate experiences and he tries to reveal them in his paintings.

His pastels seem to be composed of several segments. Their often-frivolous style and fabulous combination of colors, their figural allusive expressions create the mood of fantasy and grandeur. The subject of mutual relationship between man and woman is as old as the world itself. Galuzny’s paintings show a state of the feelings rather than the real objects.

Galuzny is the founder of The Association of Pastel Artists in Poland. He has to his credit more than 30 individual shows and over 100 collective exhibitions. He was granted numerous awards and recognition for his paintings.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Art Gallery of the Zaglebie Culture Palace

Gallery “Live” Polish Radio Katowice

OW ZPAP Warsaw

Gallery ArtNova2 – ZPAP District of Katowice

The Silesian Museum in Katowice

BWA Kielce

Sosnowiec Art Center Sielecki Castle

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

Artexpos World Art Exhibition, New York, NY

International Pastel Biennale, Nowy Sacz, QC

Painting Without Borders, Centrum Polsie, Bruksela

Palace of Art Krakow, Poland

SPECIAL AWARDS

2013

Polish Order of Culture, awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

2013

6THInternational Pastel Biennale, Medal of Polish Pastel Artist Assc.