"An Artist Who Appropriates With a Wink," Exhibition Review in Art & Design Section, The New York Times, September 25, 2019, by Ted Loos.

Piotr Uklanski has a brush with fantasy portraits in “Ottomania,” his new gallery show that melds East and West.
For someone who has ricocheted from one medium to another long before it was fashionable — installations, photography, collages, performances, films — the Polish artist Piotr Uklanski sure has a lot of different kinds of paintbrushes in his Greenpoint, Brooklyn, studio.

Ranging from a wide wallpaper brush to tiny-bristled detailers, they seemed to signal that for his new series, “Ottomania,” he is taking the most traditional art form quite seriously. His new painting...