Artists Statement/Bio
Mark Zlotkowski is a Chicago based Artist, exhibiting at galleries and museums in both the United States and Internationally. He is currently represented at The 33 Contemporary Gallery in The Zhou B. Center, Chicago IL. Besides his long resume of showing experience Zlotkowski also has taught: painting, drawing and printmaking at DePaul University for the past 20 years. He received his BFA in Painting and Printmaking from The University of Illinois (Champaign–Urbana) and his MFA from Northwestern University. Mark lives with his two daughters on the North Side of Chicago where he paints and gardens as often as possible.
Zlotkowski is currently working on two bodies of work-an Abstract one in which the urban landscape converges with the internal one. The second is a group of representational paintings inspired by his garden. The two series of paintings will be presented together in a solo exhibition in November of 2014 at the Zhou B. Center in Chicago.