Polish painter Szaweł Płóciennik often paints a canvas and then scraps away portions, re-paints it,  and mixes acrylic and oil paints on the canvas, Płóciennik works are mutilated and deformed ⎯ often  mirroring his figures. Płóciennik is influenced by neo-avant-garde Polish artists, the current socio political state, and the uncertainty of the artist’s position in the modern world. His art depicts non binary humanoid figures, frequently intertwined with animals, whose bodies appear as an  amalgamation of different parts. Through his process, Płóciennik makes and remakes these bodies,  altering their forms and playing with scale, color, and our expectations of the figurative. In Escape  from the Forest, this monumental figure is cramped in the canvases’ bounds ⎯ their proportions  crunched down into a too small space. The molten red skin, bulbous abdominal muscles, and glowing  green eyes are almost Frankensteinian: reminiscent of a monster of self-labor; grotesque and  rejected, but desiring love and companionship. Płóciennik has works in upcoming shows at The  Curator’s Room and at Eve Leibe Gallery.