Ian Sonsyadek: All Bent Out Of Shape

Var Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Ian Sonsyadek's solo exhibition All Bent Out Of Shape.

Ian, was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the States at a young age. He was raised in Chicago and had a 6 year interim in Milwaukee for undergrad and work, and back to Chicago after that. Being in quickly developing urban centers for most of his life honed his awareness of not only the constructed landscape, but of the implications that developing urban environments have on the migrations of people, culture, and the natural elements therein. The navigating, bulldozing, building, and shifting of the assembled metropolis mimics the activity of his art making, and vice versa.

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Ian states, “When I get to making something, the drive behind the impulse is to get at and exploit the at-first seemingly mundane quality of our collective surroundings. You either get lost in or completely…