ANDREW HUNCZAK

Ideas of stability are at the center of these works, which reflect a persistent attempt to assemble something lasting from shifting parts. Oil paint on sewn-together canvas is used to construct surfaces that are uneven, layered, and fragmented. These compositions are formed through a physical and intuitive process, where remnants of earlier works and new materials collide, encroach, and distort one another. Recurring architectural elements-doors, walls, windows-function less as symbols of shelter than as gestures toward something imaged and unfinished. Each motif becomes part of a larger attempt to stabilize something inherently unsettled. The logic of construction is interrupted: seams show, alignments shift, and structure is compromised by its own making. These imperfections become integral, revealing the emotional pressure driving the work. Rather than depict comfort, the work holds its absence. Familiar forms are rendered unstable, turning the desire for home into a site of quiet disruption. What appears built is always in the process of unraveling.

Hunczak lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.