Monday, June 16, 2014

Alexander Koleszar A Re Owned Artist

By Kenya Campos


He is an artist who grew up in Michigan at Birmingham . His passion and talent for painting was seen while he was still young. Immediately he had completed almost 30 canvases, his painting was exhibited at a city hall in Michigan by then he was in his seventh grade. But like usual children can be cruel, Alexander Koleszar was taunted because of his creativity which made him begin to mask his talent in painting. He hoped that it would help him avoid more negative attention.

Twenty years later, he went through one of the most challenging moments in his life. There was an AIDS epidemic where he witnessed a number of his friends get infected and die. While going through the trauma he decided to rededicate himself again to his work as an artist. This decision was one of the steps to emotional and physical recovery.

This time after returning to art work he changed the manner in which he did his work. His paintings now reflected on more real issues in the society such as the AIDS pandemic which had claimed the lives of many in the society. One of his paintings pleased so many people and was taken to a sales gallery. This painting was named returning home. It was among the two best paintings in that year.

Although Alex was becoming successful in his works, he decided to venture in classical paintings and also learn drawing techniques in 1994. In order to grow in this new field he put aside arts work and even enrolled classes for classical painting.

He did not want to exhibit his art before building himself well in the field. However in 1996 he was invited to exhibit a number of his works at County Museum in Los Angeles. During the exhibition he was tagged a new emerging artist. It made him popular that he was called to take part in a Biennale held in Italy.

Since the Biennale, people across US and parts of Europe began buying his works. His paintings are not only a fusion of surrealism but also realism. They are outstanding and reflect his admiration of works done Magritte and Dali.

All the works of Koleszar evidenced his passion for his work and his commitment to deal with critical issues in the society. All his works referenced vital issues in the community such as wars that took place during Bush Administration and Enron scandals. Some of the art work addressed addiction and recovery of West Hollywood community. He helped solve critical issues in the society indirectly through exposing them in his paintings.

Alexander is a great renaissance man. He did not only major in art but also had passion for politics and natural sciences. He integrated his ideas and world into beautiful, controversial, deep thoughts in works of art. After a few years one of the partners in Scott died. This was a very painful and dark moment for Alex because he had worked with the guy for 26 years. He decided to ground himself in his passion for painting and art. He moved to Palm Springs in California to avoid distractions and traumas he had gone through in the past.




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