The primitive style paintings of Dariusz Labuzek are inherently figurative, but their naive images are predominantly design-oriented, possessing an illustrative quality based on an abstract painterly aesthetic. This combination of abstraction and design makes his photos so compelling, his figures crafted as vessels to be filled with textures, colors, and ideas, beautiful compositions that conspire to feed our desire for aesthetically pleasing objects. With the nurturing of a very sculptural sensitivity – possibly informed by his training as an architect and filmmaker – Labuzek repeats the same motifs in his paintings, but each image is completely different, his starting point is the relationship between painterly concepts such as texture, color, line, and form; This play of ideas gives him the space to explore how we see a painting, the depth and nuance of material, as well as the potential it has to manipulate how we view the picture plane. Some of his figures look like copper or collage-like cutouts, the rest is more illustrative in nature.