Mark Kielkucki ('75 Painting)

Nocturne #6

Acrylic on Canvas

36"x48"

2021

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Mark Kielkucki works with acrylic paints on watercolor paper and canvas. His art has taken him around the world including Kansas City, New Orleans, Portland, Greece, Morocco, Mexico, and Montreal. Mark produces highly original, color-saturated works of art. His latest paintings, as one reviewer described them, embody a style that lands "somewhere between David Lynch and Tim Burton."

Mark's outdoor adventures in his Yonkers, New York boyhood home were formative in the development of his visual vocabulary. Roaming the urban neighborhood by bike and drifting down the Hudson River in Huckleberry Finn style on a homemade raft filled him with sensory riches he would draw on later as an artist. As he entered his teenage years, visits to the Hudson River Museum, a stint at music and arts camp, and trips to the museums of New York City drew him to the arts. In his senior year of high school, Mark's art teacher, Miss Crabtree, recommended he study art at the College of Emporia in Emporia, Kansas. While there, he visited Kansas City and discovered the Kansas City Art Institute, where he graduated with a BFA in Painting.