about
Jan Glinski is a painter, printmaker, installation artist and graphic designer.
Jan’s work is intensely emotive, but viewers often experience totally different feelings, and this is one of his signatures. He believes that “explaining art is fake, even if it’s the artist explaining it,” because we all experience art and life through our unique, ever-changing filters. His work challenges us to recognise these personal filters and allow the work to play with our preconceived notions.
Jan earned his Master’s Degree in art and design from the State College of Fine Arts (PWSPP) in Poznan in 1981. He participated in a number of group shows at Wielka 19 Gallery in Poznan, where the artistic underground would come together leading up to the imposition of martial law in communist Poland in December, 1981. Jan was in New York for a show as his friends in the Solidarity movement were arrested. Jan, an activist whose anti-communist illustrations were published by the New York Times, was granted political asylum and started a new life in New York City.
In 1986, Jan co-founded Rosepoint Press Inc., a DUMBO, Brooklyn-based print-making shop specialised in silk-screen production. At the turn of the century, Jan and co-founder Lonnie Brawer shifted direction, distilling Rosepoint into a digital design shop that produced award-winning book covers and logo design. Rosepoint closed in 2011. Jan continued as an independent graphic designer, but also returned to painting, and worked as professional yacht captain.
Jan currently lives by the sea in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and produces work out of a small home studio. He is a visiting lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Jan does not currently have gallery representation.
past Shows and Exhibitions
Moravian College, Pennsylvania “Aquarium” - 1986
Wielka 19 Gallery Poznan, Poland “Poems” - 1985
La Mama Gallery NY “Images from the underground” - 1984
Wielka 19 Gallery Poznan, Poland “Postcards” - 1981
Helsinki, Finland “Young Art from Poland” group show - 1981
Fama Swinoujscie, Poland - 1980
Wielka 19 Gallery Poznan “Battle of Grunwald” with Sylvester Lachacz - 1979
BWA Poznan, Poland Emerging generation group show - 1978
Jan has worked with: Parsons School of Design, The New York Times, Geo Magazine, Alfred Knopf, Walker & Company, Thunder’s Mouth Press, Little Brown and Company, Inworks, Pentagram, Penguin, Peckolick and Partners, Sagmaister Inc., WL2 Design, Chermayeff & Geismar, Wydawnictwo Literackie Krakow, Donovan & Green, The Ink Tank, Jessica Weber Design, Young & Rubicam, Pushpin Group, Graphis Magazine, Dan Miller Design, Di Vision Studio, M&Co, Bantham Books, Simon & Schuster, Byron Press Multimedia, Random House, Vintage International, St. Martin’s Press, Emerson Wajdowicz, LOT Polish Airlines, Ursula Flurer Design, McMillan, Farrah Straus Giroux, Millen & Ranson, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove Press, Ashley Management, Marc J.Cohen Design, James Victore Design Works, Z Sails, O&J Design, Sotheby’s, Talisman, Castelli Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Dyensen Gallery, Peterson & Blyth, Schechter Group, Cygnus International, Gray Advertising, Richard Horowitz, Hashi, PS1, MOMA Guggenheim Museum, Marion Pallenberg Design, Swiss Army Inc., Andrzej Dudzinski, Lab Inc., Penguin/Viking, Eric Zim, Sarah Bernstein Design, Workman Press, Limited, Mohawk Papers, Crabtree & Evelyn, Christoph Niemann, RO Blechman, Doubleday, The Metropolitan Opera, Tin Room Cafe, Public Affairs, Revlon, W Norton, Lever Bros., Creg Cutler, Liz Clairborne, Middleberg & Associates, Landor Associates, American Express, Gravity Graphics, L’Oréal, Davis Publications, Shakespeare Project, Times Books, Henry Holt, Ogilvy & Mather, Kirchen Baum Bond & Partners, Mangia, Lutece, HarperCollins Publishers, Robert Lee Morris, Prescriptives, Clinique, Structure Inc., Cosmair, Scribners, Bristol Meyers, Jan Karski Foundation, Pogranicze, Massimo Ferragamo, Rupert Wines, Sailing Foundation, and others…