Clio Art Fair Spotlight: a Review by Adam Niklewicz

Artist Adam Niklewicz

“Making art is like carving out an intimate niche for oneself – a free zone that doubles as a buffer, a source of protection from the pressures of corporate society in which many feel trapped. Today’s climate encourages the public to believe that reality can be sanitized, streamlined and made predictable. My work pokes holes in that illusion."

-Adam Niklewicz

Adam Niklewicz showcased his work and performed in the past at the 19th edition of Clio Art Fair, held from May 8-11, 2025. Here is our short interview with the artist and a review of his experience at Clio Art Fair!

Adam, can you please describe your art in four words?

Artist meets the world.

What inspires your art?

My art is shaped by my ongoing emigrant experience. It often draws on the visual vocabulary of my Polish childhood and on my subsequent exposure to American commercial and pop-cultural iconography. The resulting blend testifies to the paradoxes of an emigrant artist’s mindset.

How would you describe your experience at Clio Art Fair?

It was excellent and the fair was very well attended! Alessandro is my hero!

Adam Niklewicz, Remake of Tactile Drawing by Milan Gryger (1966)

Part of Clio Art Fair's special performance project “Behave As If God Exists” Performed at Clio Art Fair's 19th Edition, May 8th, 2025