DENNIS E ORLOWSKI
Dennis Orlowski, a world-renowned muralist from Hamtramck, Michigan, is a public artist who believes his art, like the artists of the Renaissance, serves as a social and community function. Painting can speak to the general public as education, the expression of civic pride and identity, or identification with transcendent heroic and cultural themes. Such art, instead of trying to break with traditions establishes continuity with them
Murals best represent art in context; paintings set in a church, park, library, school or public thoroughfare. With the resurgence of ethnic identity, activity and pride there is also a renewed interest in religion and historical traditions. Mr. Orlowski’s murals are on the walls of many local churches and public buildings, including his mural the Madonna of Czestochowa, completed for Pope John Paul II’s visit and the mural located in Pope Park, Hamtramck. Orlowski works to create murals that are both rewarding and enlightening.
