"Starting Again From Zero," an exhibition of the works of Perth Amboy illustrator and portraitist Alex Szkola, continues at the Barron Arts Center through Oct. 23
Szkola was born in Germany several months after the end of World War II, immigrating to America in the mid 1950s. He studied at the Arts Students League in New York with Socialist realist painters. Issac Soyerand Peter Homitzky who were important influences in the creation of Szkola’s early photorealistic style. These paintings of the New York City urban landscape earned Szkola long term representation by the Horizon Gallery in Manhattan.
Recently, having grown increasingly dissatisfied with the direction and limitation of his work, Szkola returned to New Jersey. “. . .Subsequently, pretending I knew nothing,” says Szkola, “I rediscovered drawing and simply started again from zero.” The result o fthis change over is visually chronicled in The Barron Arts Center exhibit.
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