Wolk Art

Created by AJ Wrobel, inspired by de Kooning and Frankenthaler.

“Wolk” is a Dutch word for a cloud.

A visible mass of matter in any medium, resembling an atmospheric cloud. 

Characteristic to Wolk Art is exposure and transparency, an avant-garde means of expression that has created new ways to explore deeper narratives by requiring the viewer to consider more.

Wolk Art style came about through the development of Clavos Frame.  A new canvas design, no longer is there concealment of framework, fasteners, and canvas arrangement. Instead, being left evident and open for viewer interaction. Clavos Frame illuminates the vulnerability and stress a canvas must endure for the painting, an allegory for so much of our society today. 

Wolk Art introduces a secondary surface plane to traditional two-dimensional art. A new soak stain technique of painting on the back side of raw canvas presents color to the viewer with an atmospheric or “cloudy” appearance as the eye mixes pigment with transparent primer and raw canvas threads. This provides an entirely new method of expressive mark making for artists to define volume, mass, and space.