Janusz Zadurowicz

...One aspect of art is communication between people, not like a newspaper, but more like poetry, an interpretation of fact. It belongs to the soul and expands it. Good painting creates new thoughts. It creates space in the seer. That space is how I try to achieve perspective in my work. I do not paint perspective. Perspective doesn't exist on a two dimensional plane; it is created in the mind of the seer. And that can't be created too quickly. Perspective comes with time. Without time, there is no space. I see everything in painting. I see time.

I create the new by placing layer upon layer. Colors create layers. They grow like a garden. You must give them time. You must be patient with colors. Colors like to exist together. They dare me to put them side by side. Colors are the spices in art. One can get something at a fast food restaurant without spices and think it's good. But then one can get the same meat at a Jewish or French restaurant. There the cook has seasoned the meat with spices. It is wonderful; it is art!

When someone looks at my painting for the first time, he might think, "How strange." If he goes back for a second look, he may see shapes, contrast of color. And again, he might see someone or something behind this art - not me, but all the people and places I have connected with. He might see something that doesn't exist any more. That's perspective. If the seer goes beyond himself then I have achieved my goal. Achieving that goal takes time. There is no need to finish the thought or deed. I can always go back to my painting.

Taken from conversations with Janusz Zadurowicz by Sandra Rupp (2002)

Selected Group Exhibitions

1985 - Christchurch, New Zealand - Several Arts Gallery
1987 - Bielsko Biala, Poland - BWA Gallery
- Warsaw - Brama Gallery
1988 - Bergheim, Germany - Valderhof Gallery, with Inger Golhke
- Bergheim, Germany - a Christmas Exhibition, Valderhof Gallery
1990 - Lubeck, Germany - ART Gallery
1991 - Warsaw - SARP Gallery
- Swietochlowice, Poland - Christian Art Festival
- Warsaw - ZPAP Gallery
1992 - Poznan, Poland - Faber Castell Grand Competition
1993 - Warsaw and Tokyo - Exhibition Organized Miyauchi Foundation
1994 - Washington, DC - Atrium Gallery in International Monetary Fund
- St. Severin, Belgium - Exhibition of Sacral Art, the Abbey in St. Severin
1995 - Montreal, Canada - HEC Gallery
- Warsaw, Gallery 32, under auspices of the UN - with Christel Lehmann
1996 - Washington, DC - Okuda International Gallery
- High Point, NC - Furnishing Festival
- Columbia , SC - SC State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
- Member of the 1st Annual SC State Fair Traveling Exhibition
1999 - Columbia , SC - SC State Fair Arts Exhibition
2000 - Spartanburg , SC - Burwell Open Competition
- Sumter , SC - NBSC Oil Painters’ Open Invitation
2001 - Sumter, SC - Sumter Gallery of Art, 2001 Oil Painters Open Invitation
- Pickens, SC - The Pickens County Museum, Pure Oil exhibition
- Greenville, SC - Hampton III Gallery, Still Life exhibition
- Columbia, SC - State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
2003 - Asheville, NC - Blue Spirale 1 Gallery, “New 3” Art Exhibition
- Columbia, SC - SC State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
- Greenville, SC – Bob Jones University, Fine Art Department
- New York, NY – Allied Artists of America, 90th Annual Exhibition
2005 - Warsaw, Poland – annual ZPAP ( Union of Polish Artists) selected exhibition

MA form TCMI. Educated in fine art and graphic design under auspices, among others, by Linda McCune and John Antonio he is an artist and designer working both in Europe, and in the United States. His work has consisted of creating book covers, posters, postcards, illustrations, digital artworks, and designing CD covers for jazz artists in US and in Europe. Among competitions in which he has been recognized was a first prize award for poster design at the United Nations Fourth Women's Conference in 1995 in Beijing, China. From 1985 to 2008 artist took part in 23 individual exhibitions and 43 group exhibitions including 25 judged exhibitions in which he received 13 awards.

1992 - Poznan, Poland - a Special Prize at Faber Castell Grand Competition
1994 - Warsaw, Akwarium Agency – designer for CD covers of world’s best known jazzmen.
1995 - Albert Institute. Warsaw - received first prize in a competition for postcard designs
- The winning poster design for the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women
1998 - Best in Show Award - High Point, NC. Furnishing Festival
- SC State Fair Fine Arts Juried Exhibition “Fine Arts Merit Award”
2003 - Best in Show Award – The Artists Guild of Spartanburg, SC - juror Jack Leigh
- Second Price Award – Spartanburg Museum of Art – Sidewalk Art Show - juror J. Paul Sires
- Merit Award – Annual Upstate Visual Arts Exhibition, Greenville, SC – juror Richard Aunspaugh
- Merit Award – Fifth Belton Juried Art Show, Belton, SC – juror Paul Matheny
- Merit Award – Jubilee Harvest of the Arts, Rock Hill, SC – juror Janet Kozachek
- Merit Award – Fine Art Department Exhibition at Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC
2005 - Honorable Mention – The MOCA, digital art contest, New York – juror JD Jarvis

Selected Publications

Selected United Nations Development Programme, September, 1995
USA Chicago Reader, May 17, 1996
Chicago Sun Times, May 24, 1996
Society for Arts, Chicago, April, 1996
Nowy Dziennik, June 20, 1996
Gwiazda Polarna, June, 1996
The Greenville Journal, August 11-17, 2000
The Greenville News, September 27, 2000
Carolina Arts, June Issue, 2002
MetroBEAT, October 15-21, 2002
The Charlotte Observer, October 8, 2003
Art in America, Annual 2002-2003
Art: A Brief History, Second Edition, 2004 by Pearson Education, Inc.
and Greenville Technical College – Department of Visual Arts

Selected Kölnische Zeitung, September, 1988
Germany Lubeckische Blätter, April 14, 1990
Lubeckische Nachrichten, February 22, 1990
Schwabische Zeitung, June 20, 1995
Schwabische Zeitung, March, 1997

Selected Gazeta Wyborcza, April 16, 1991
Poland Miyauochi Foundation, April, 1993
Rzeczpospolita, August 5, 1995
Art & Business, May, 1999

1986 - Warsaw - Ochota Theatre
1990 - Warsaw - Nowe Miasto Gallery
1991 - Warsaw - Przy Rynku Gallery
1993 - Wavre, Belgium - Generale de Banque Gallery
1995 - Washington, DC - Dianne Beal Contemporary Art
- Aulendorf, Germany - Im Reithof Gallery
1996 - Washington, DC - Polish Embassy
- Chicago, IL - 1112 Gallery. Society for Arts
- Philadelphia, PA - PII Gallery
- Chicago, IL - D&Z House of Books
1997 - Washington, DC - Okuda International Gallery (January)
- Aulendorf, Germany - Kurhaus Gallery
- Washington, DC - Okuda International Gallery (October)
1999 - Warsaw - Gallery 32
2000 - North Greenville College, Tigersville, SC
- Greenville, SC - Hampton III Gallery
2002 - Spartanburg, SC - The Spartanburg County Museum of Art
- Greenville, SC - Hampton III Gallery
2005 - Anderson, SC – Gallant Gallery, Anderson College