Michal Wisniowski - visual, painting, drawing, mixed media, illustration, graphic design

Michal Wisniowski
Visual

Artist Statement
My fascination of documenting and exploring anime and manga visuals continues to lead me in a direction which reveals its place in our culture. This visual vocabulary, once confined by national and geographic boundaries, now permeates our Western societies. It has become part of the sub-cultural fabric of our world and continues to assert its permanence.

The wave of media that has ushered in a new Japanization of the West still serves as the foundation for my work, but now I must let in all the other elements attached to this phenomenon that have long tried to break through. The cultural trends of consumerism as well as national and international politics do not exist without effect on the media which fuels my endeavors.

While my interests are varied and many, they are now becoming one with the art I create. This is the time when I must gather video games, anime, technology, consumerism, philosophy, religion, multiculturalism, and politics together. It may be too much, but my generation lives in a world where all these exert their influence. Sometimes it really is too much.

Artist Bio
Michal Wisniowski was born in Wrocław, Poland while the communist government was still in power. As the Solidarity movement gained momentum, his mother fled the country from increasing civil unrest to seek asylum in Western Europe until eventually settling in Germany.

Several years following the collapse of the communist regime in Poland, Michal's family returned to Wrocław briefly before emigrating to the United States. They made their home in Billings, Montana, where Michal began high school and a long period of acclimating to American culture. He later received his art education in Billings at Rocky Mountain College under two of the most dedicated art faculty, Mark S. Moak and James Baken.

During one of his art classes, Michal met his wife Nikki. Following both their graduations they had a wonderful wedding at the Yellowstone Art Museum, and then set out on the open road away from Montana. This is how they came to Wilmington, where they now reside and create art atop a treasury of old books.

Contact Info
Michal Wisniowski

Wilmington, North Carolina 28401

michal.wisniowski@gmail.com
www.michalwisniowski.com
www.mentisworks.org
www.aniwave.com

Member Since
2009