I was born in Pilsen, at the maternity ward next to the polyclinic, whose entrance is decorated by a statue of a naked woman. As a little boy I had problems with otitis media, so for me this building is associated with pain. They also tore my tonsils out there. But when I went outside the polyclinic and saw the naked woman, the feeling of pain was gone and I was admiring her beauty. This is probably where my lifelong interest in depicting a woman in Evin’s robes originates. I studied figurative drawing later, at the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in New York, where we emmigrated as a family in 1987. In 1991, I transferred to The Cooper Union School of Art – an art school in Manhattan. I devoted myself to painting and sculpture, but in the end I was enchanted by architecture, perhaps also because I studied at a construction engineering school in Pilsen. I transferred to the five-year faculty of architecture, which I finished with a diploma in 1997.

Since then I have been building skyscrapers in Manhattan and my evenings belonged to the New York women. Some of them lived with me and I was blessed with the good fortune of roommates or girlfriends whose beauty I got to record. A lot of time has passed since then (I had my last exhibition in Pilsen 18 years ago) and that’s why I returned to the topic of women. 

For this exhibition, called Everybeauties, I have prepared a series of paintings, where a woman blends with water. I perceive both, woman and water, as sources of life, from woman and water we come, we spring.