Christian Narkiewicz-Laine

In 2003, Narkiewicz-Laine pled guilty to charges that he lied to an FBI agent investigating fraud at the Chicago Athenaeum.

Narkiewicz-Lane admitted he created false invoices for a 1996 exhibition at the Athenaeum, defrauding the Royal Danish Consulate of $62,763, and was sentenced to three months in prison.

[9][10] Narkiewicz-Laine is an active artist not only in the area of architecture and design but also in poetry, sculpture, literature and painting.

[citation needed] In the 1990s, his early Neo-Expressionist works in a style reminiscent of Anselm Kiefer and inspired by the writings of the Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, and the Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, were exhibited at the Buenos Aires International Biennial, Warsaw History Museum, Budapest Mücsarnok Museum, Galeri Jaroslava Fragnera in Prague, Göteborg Konstmuseum, Thessaloniki Municipal Museum, São Paulo Biennale, and Bückeburg Palace, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany.

[citation needed] In 2000, he moved his studio from Chicago to Galena, Illinois where he is influenced and inspired as a landscape painter by the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi River Valley.