Bathers
Sadko Hadžihasanović
new paintings
January 9 - February 7, 2026
Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to present paintings by Sadko Hadžihasanović and Stephen Lack.
Sadko Hadžihasanović was born in Bihac, Bosnia in 1959. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia, earned his MFA at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1984) and arrived in Toronto in 1993, after the outbreak of the Bosnian war, and stayed.
Stephen Lack was born in Montreal in 1946. He received a B.A. from McGill University, Montreal in 1967 and an M.F.A. Sculpture. University of Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in 1969. He eventually settled in New York City and became one of the seminal artists of the East Village scene in the early 80s, joining the original stable of the Gracie Mansion Gallery.
Each artist shares an outsider's perspective, Sadko on North American culture and Lack on American culture, and share a focus on the formation of identity and its many mainstream media influences. They both straddle the digital age. What we see most often are the consequences of these influences, with figures in isolation, in pairs or small groups, working things out while the forces and causes remain implied, offstage and outside of the picture.