RAFAL JAN

is a Polish-born artist based in North America, with over two decades of creative experience spanning film, digital media, graphic design, and physical formats. His current practice centers on tactile abstraction—works engineered with marble paste and acrylic that explore presence, transformation, and perception. Born in Wrocław and raised in the U.S. after immigrating on July 4th, 1998, Rafal’s early dislocation shaped a lifelong ritual of introspection. Struggling with identity and belonging became a quiet initiation into self-inquiry—one that continues to inform the emotional and symbolic depth of his work today.
His artistic language is intuitive and textural, balancing structure with surrender. Bold color fields and topographic surfaces behave like emotional landscapes—meant to be felt before understood. The work invites stillness. Reflection. Encounter. Through abstraction, Rafal offers the viewer a space to confront the unseen: not only within the work, but within themselves.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores the terrain between presence and perception—where form dissolves into feeling, and the viewer is invited to experience intuitively, without instruction. Each piece begins without a map. Inspired by the playful dance of the elements, I embrace the intuitive process and allow the materials to guide the creation. There is no predetermined narrative, no artificial explanations—only the quiet unfolding of something felt before it is understood.

The surfaces are engineered with marble paste and acrylic, layered in motion and memory. They behave like internal landscapes—topographic, emotional, and reflective. What emerges is not a message, but a mirror. I’m not seeking to resolve. I’m creating the conditions where something honest might surface. These works are not meant to be decoded.

They are meant to return your gaze.