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"Appropriating the acronym for English as a second language, Polish-born Piotr Ukla\u0144ski's upcoming exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art embraces ESL as a symbol of the artist's own status as an immigrant. The title also points to a spirit of irreverence for mainstream art. His exhibition will showcase a precise but eclectic selection of sculpture and paintings.\n\nPinterestFacebook*Untitled (T-Shirt),* 2002. Photo courtesy of the artist\n\nUkla\u0144ski's works address issues related to his position on the margins of American society\u2014whether through his outsider relationship to American pop culture, his pursuit of the fabled American dream, or through Americanized references to Polish history and art. As an immigrant living and working in the birthplace of Abstract Expressionism, Ukla\u0144ski states, \"Neither English nor abstraction is my mother tongue. These paintings \u2018speak' an aesthetic ESL.\"\n\nPinterestFacebookFrom left: *Untitled (It's Dark in My Heart),* 2012; *Untitled (Warsaw Uprising '44 Pruszk\u00F3w),* 2008. Photo: Maciej Landsberg\n\nThrough March 16, 2014, at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach; bassmuseum.org\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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