Koscielak Gallery:

Dennis Kowalski lives and works in Chicago and Iowa City. Kowalski studied architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been a professor at UIC for the past 30 years. A founding member of N.A.M.E. Gallery in 1973, Kowalski has been an important figure on the Chicago art scene, not only as an artist, but also through his support of young conceptual artists before such art was accepted or appreciated by the public. Kowalski's work is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. Kowalski unique issue driven work is defined by a poetic approach to prosaic materials and blurring the boundaries between architecture, and art, object and image, sculpture and painting. Resembling a rebus puzzle of layered media, symbols and abstractions, Kowalski’s oeuvre deconstructs American myths, questioning how America shapes and reinforces its vision of itself.

Views from the Installation MARS,
2003