Michal Zaborowski
b. 1960 Gdansk, Poland
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Zabrorowski is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 1985

Suspended in Time
A Review of Michal Zaborowski's work by Polish art historian Joanna Dobkowska-Kubacka

Michal Zaborowski's paintings invite us into a world of romance and tranquility. Michal paints ordinary people engaged in ordinary activities, but he gives them an import that compels us to examine them. He finds such beauty in these ordinary events—a man and his dog in a boat, a boy fishing, a woman by a swimming pool—that we wish we could trade places with the subjects of his paintings. Their worlds are filled with light and romance, and ours are enhanced just by looking at them. We are exhilarated by the beauty and the light of Zaborowski's paintings.

Gallery owner Nevin J. Kelly describes Zaborowski as "a romantic impressionist with a contemporary voice." He considers Zaborowski one of the most talented painters working in Poland today.

Zaborowski's palette is subdued. There is often a mixture of beauty and a gnawing sense of melancholy in his paintings, a combination so common in our everyday lives that we almost fail to notice it. Zaborowski's paintings remind us that, even in life's gray moments, a moment of sublime beauty is just around the corner. This is the hope that keeps us going. And it is what makes it so hard to take our eyes off Zaborowski's canvases.

Zaborowski began his career as a painter of church interiors. He painted in the Vatican in 1986 under a scholarship of the General of the Pallotine Order. His works are in numerous private collections in the US, Poland, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and Australia. He has exhibited extensively in Poland and throughout the world, including Frankfurt, Germany (1988), Vienna, Austria (1991), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1992), Luxembourg (1994), Monte Carlo, Monaco (2000), Kiev, Ukraine (2004), Vilnius, Lithuania (2004), Palm Beach, Florida (2001 and 2004), Miami Florida (2005), London, England (2004), New York, New York (2001), Nykobing, Denmark (2002), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2002), San Francisco, California (2003), Santa Fe, New Mexico (2005) and Aspen, Colorado (2005).