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Post Fair, Los Angeles

1248 5th St
Santa Monica, CA 90406

Booth 11

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For Post-Fair 2026 we are excited to present a solo booth of Krakow-based artist Łukasz Stokłosa, following his solo exhibition in the gallery in 2024. The new and recent paintings continue to reference his photographic archive, including images of historic objects and interiors of private European residences that have been converted to public museums, photographed with his digital camera.

 
In 1990, upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Poland began broadcasting American television for the first time. As the culture readily embraced the possibilities of their new Capitalist government, the eyes of the country were glued to Dynasty - the U.S. prime-time soap opera produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Joan Collins. The outlandish gaud of its costumes, sets, scripts became aspirational for the Polish people as the inevitable standard of living under their new economic regime, the Carrington Mansion a model for that century’s renaissance. A Golden Age for Poland never materialized, but the idea of it lingers on for the artist.

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The regalia in these paintings glint through a petroleum haze, their detail as impossibly faint as their empty promise. Limned by Stokłosa’s obsession they persist no less ignorant of the devotion and disillusionment they inspire. So the artist’s obsessive collection of these objects and places continues but without the same disregard for their theoretical implications. His works succeed in revelation where the things they depict fall short in withholding. These subjects are stripped of their decorous historicity and Stokłosa’s interpretations read immortal.

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Łukasz Stokłosa (b. 1986, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland) lives and works in Kraków, Poland. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków. Recent solo exhibitions include Once Upon a Time, Rose Easton, London (2025) Elegies, The Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków, PL (2025); Sol victus, The Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków, PL (2024); Cries & Whispers, Tureen Gallery, Dallas, US (2024); Perihelion, AMITY, New York, US (2023); Mmmelting, Krupa Gallery, Wrocław, PL (2023) and Ambassadors. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain, Zderzak gallery, Kraków, PL (2022). Recent group exhibitions include: Nostalgia: Seekers of Fading Stars, MOCAK, Kraków, PL (2025); Arkadius. Powerful emotions. Confrontations, The Central Museum of Textiles, Lódź, PL (2024); The scent of rotting flowers, The City Art Gallery, Lódź, PL (2024); Beautiful Fish in a Man-Made Pond, AMITY, Los Angeles, US (2024); Food in Art, MOCAK, Kraków, PL (2024); Rococo's Madness, National Museum, Wrocław, PL (2023) and THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL (2022).

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