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Email PageOdyssey
February 14, 2008- March 15, 2008
Reception: February 14, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
George Siejka
Fischbach Gallery
210 11th Ave George Siejka Pyrtania (2001) |  George Siejka Autumn River (2006) |  George Siejka Ruins (2008) |
Odyssey, a series of recent landscape paintings, reflects Siejka’s unstable life: his birth in Europe, to his family’s migration to the US and his college studies in New York City in the late Sixties through Seventies, to his professional establishing in New Orleans in the Eighties, until he has been forced to find refuge in Beacon, New York, to escape from the extensive devastations brought by Hurricane Katrina.
A contemporary Odysseus, Siejka’s journey is not a consequence of exploration and thirst for knowledge, but a continuous change forced by necessity; and Siejka’s paintings in Odyssey have become an expression of this journey in life forced by personal and climatic changes beyond his control. Although initially quiet and tranquil, his paintings slowly reveal the subversive but prevalent sense of temporality, erosion, and decay. Through this series, Siejka ultimately reveals “the apocalyptical vision of nature’s prevalence over human culture as personal warning to all humankind against the possible catastrophic consequences of excessive and large scale abuse of nature.”
Born Vienna, Austria in 1953, Siejka earned his BS in Art Education and his MA in Fine Arts at New York University. Sieka is currently teaching at the New York School of Visual Arts in New York City and lives in Beacon, New York.
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