ABOUT THE ARTIST

Joseph Sulkowski, Creator of APOKALUPSIS, An Uncovering

Joseph Sulkowski is an award-winning artist in the Classical tradition. Born in 1951 in Pittsburgh, PA, he knew from age five that art was to be his lifelong passion. His formal studies began at the oldest art school in the U.S., the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, followed by five additional years of a focused apprenticeship of Old Master principles and techniques at the Art Students League of New York under mentor Frank Mason.

He describes his technique as an eclectic fusion of Renaissance and 17th century Italian, Flemish and Dutch principles and techniques and regards the 17th century Spanish master, Diego Velasquez, as the greatest artist in this tradition. Sulkowski expresses his world on canvas through brilliant effects of light dramatically contrasted with the luminosity and depth of vaporous transparent shadows.

Joseph Sulkowski paints in a style of Poetic Realism, an approach more interpretive than literal. It is the nebulous, the intangible and the invisible aspects of reality that inspire his paintings of light, space and atmosphere and create the “stuff” out of which the genuine and enduring qualities of our physical world are made visible.