Arkadiusz Piegdon

For Polish-American artist Arkadiusz Piegdon – whose family fled Eastern Europe shortly after his birth and eventually settled in the Bronx, the canvas resembles disjointed and incongruous systems of overlapping, intersecting and competing networks. In collages mixing acrylics and text, Piegdon imagines sprawling webs of intertwined colors and shapes, with strange contraptions evolving over busy backgrounds of lettering that cannot quite be read.