Łukasz Stokłosa

Born in 1986 in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Łukasz Stokłosa graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 2010. He lives and works in Krakow. Stokłosa's paintings return obsessively to the imagery and technique of old masters — the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio, the compositional theatricality of Baroque altarpieces, the still-life conventions of the Dutch Golden Age — but reroute them through contemporary sensibilities: homoerotic desire, the aesthetics of kitsch and camp, and a gothic awareness of mortality. Included in Kurt Beers' "100 Painters of Tomorrow" (Thames & Hudson, 2014). Represented by Zderzak Gallery, Krakow and Krupa Gallery, Wroclaw.