Strange Art by Jeremiah Palecek

One of my grandmothers paintings 

This is a painting my grandmother did around 1967. It is entitled “creation” and is a large oil painting on masonite. Measuring more than 6 feet wide, this was the painting one first saw when walking into her house in rural Kansas. Her name was Frantiska Brzon Palecek, and she was a strong supporter of science, and evolution. While the painting is entitled creation, the painting had much more to do with amino acids forming into proteins than any ethereal cloud being. I m sure that my early trips to my grandmother’s house (which doubled as her own personal gallery) were influential in my own interest and early development as an artist. She was not professionally trained, and started painting very late in life, nonetheless, she made some beautiful paintings that I will be posting alongside my new works.