"...do not meddle in things appertaining to the eye by making them enter through the ear".

 Leonardo da Vinci

In his paintings, Joseph Hronek questions representational conventions of scale, design, format, and intent; frames are functional parts of the works, acting to focus attention on the pictorial space.  In his drawings, Mr. Hronek looks satirically at himself as artist and art educator, at his colleagues, and at the art industry in general.

He teaches painting and figure drawing at both the college of lake county and William Rainey Harper College in Illinois. He has received numerous awards for his works depicting still-lifes, landscapes and the human figure. His paintings are in private and public collections throughout the contiguous United States.

Other than following the basic tenets of oil painting (laying warm colors over cold, painting fat over lean, never putting the same color over itself and saving the purest colors to the final layer) I have no set technique. Each painting comes with its own unique problems, and I simply paint until I achieve the desired results.