Art Exhibit of extraordinary artist Olga Zbarskaya
Art show of Ilona Zabolotna
Presented by The UAG а так же в New Russia Cultural Center
April 1- April 29, 2016
Admission: Free
Upstate Artist Guild Gallery (UAG)
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY 12210
“Remembrances of Russia”
Ilona Zabolotna was born and received the artistic education in Ukraine. In 2011 she moved to the Unites States where her artistic career developed further. She has produced numerous ceramics, graphics, paintings, small sculptures and decorative arts.
ArtCosmos
Thomas Broadbent
Den Marino
Artem Mirolevich
Igor Molochevski
Peter Patchen
Eva Petric
Felix Rodewaldt
Igor Vishnyakov
Aleksander Vulakh
Presented by Salomon Arts Gallery and Russian Pavilion
April 15th – May 14th
Opening Reception:Friday, April 22th, 68 pm
Salomon Arts Gallery
83 Leonard St.,
New York, NY, 10013
ArtCosmos is an annual art fair dedicated to collaboration between artists, academics, and thought leaders at the intersection of Science and Contemporary Art. The second edition of ArtCosmos, held in honor of the 55th anniversary of the first manned flight into space by Yuri Gagarin opens at Salomon Arts Gallery in Tribeca, New York City on Friday, April 22nd and runs through May 14th, 2016.
The exhibition features a group of multidisciplinary artists creating new visual dialogues for humanity’s unwavering quest to explore deep space. It will include works from Thomas Broadbent’s spacethemed “Inertia” series, which won the 2016 Pulse Prize at Pulse NY Art Fair, Artem Mirolevich who presented his ‘Black Cube’ project at the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and Eva Petric a viennabased artist who created the sitespecific installation “Personal UNIVERSEs” for the window display of Bergdorf Goodman during New York Fashion Week 2015.
The inaugural ArtCosmos was held in in Barcelona, Spain in honor of the UNESCO International Year of Light as a collaboration between Espronceda Art & Culture Center, Quo Artis and Russian Pavilion.The first edition featured presentations from Alexander Ponomarev, Contemporary artist who represented Russia at the 52nd Venice Biennial, Alvar Sanchez, professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Osvaldo Catalano, astrophysicist and Director of the Instituto Nazionale Di Astrophysics in Rome.
ArtCosmos is jointly presented by Russian Art Pavilion and Salomon Arts Gallery. The exhibition is a part of Russian American History Month in New York State and will run concurrently to Frieze Art Week.
For hires images & press inquiries:
Contact Viktoria at artcosmos2016@gmail.com
Exhibition tour by appointment only.
Contact 6469432848 to make a booking.
(image copyright: Thomas Broadbent, “Spaceman”)
Artist Oleg Vassiliev: Metro Series & Selected Works on Paper
The exhibition presented by the Kolodzei Art Foundation features linocuts from the late 1950s and early 1960s and selected drawings and collages by prominent Russian-American artist Oleg Vassiliev (1931-2013).
Oleg Vassiliev (born in 1931 in Moscow; lived and worked in New York; died in 2013 in St. Paul, Minnesota). He attended the Moscow Secondary Art School from 1947 to 1952 and graduated from the Surikov Art Institute in 1958 with a specialty in graphics. In the late 1950s he became influenced by the Russian avant-garde formalists, Vladimir Favorsky (1886–1964), Robert Falk (1886–1958), and Artur Fonvizin (1882–1973). From the time of his graduation until his emigration, Vassiliev worked as a children’s book illustrator in close collaboration with Erik Bulatov. In 1990 he immigrated to New York. After 2006, he lived and worked in St. Paul, Minnesota until his death on January 25, 2013. Vassiliev has been the recipient of numerous artistic awards and grants, including from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1994 and 2002). In 1999, he was also the first recipient of the “Liberty Prize”. Since 1968, Oleg Vassiliev participated in many group exhibitions in museums, including Ich Lebe, Ich Sene, at Kunstmuseum, Bern in 1988; Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin, Kunst 1950-2000, at The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin in 2004; Russia! at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2005; his prominent solo museum exhibitions include Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations) at The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow in 2004 and The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg in 2005; The Art of Oleg Vassiliev, The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2011; Oleg Vassiliev: Space and Light at the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick in 2014-2015. Oleg Vassiliev’s works are in many museum collections, including: The State Tretyakov Museum, Moscow; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Lexington; ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow; Kolodzei Art Foundation, Highland Park, New Jersey; The Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany; The Costakis Collection, Athens, Greece; Dresden Staatliche Kunst Gallery, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Norsk-Russisk Kultursenter Galleri, Kirkenes, Norway; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc., a US-based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public foundation started in 1991, organizes exhibitions and cultural exchanges in museums and cultural centers in the United States, Russia and other countries, often utilizing the considerable resources of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, publishes books on Russian art.
The Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art is one of the world’s largest private art collections, and consists of over 7,000 works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, digital art and videos, by more than 300 artists from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
For additional information visit http://www.KolodzeiArt.org or email Kolodzei@kolodzeiart.org
Address: Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor, NYC.
The exhibition on view until March 31, 2017
Attend our annual Russian Orthodox Easter Picnic!
April 27, 2014
Join us as we go on a picnic to celebrate Russian Orthodox Easter at the Church of All Saints of Russia in Pine Bush, New York! We will have traditional ethnic food, music, singing, and contests.
For those in need of transportation, there is a bus leaving for Pine Bush from St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (15 E 97th Street, New York, NY) at 8:00 AM. The cost of transportation is $20. To register please contact Mr. Igor Kochan at (201) 774-0105. For those wishing to travel independently, the address of All Saints of Russia church is 287 Jansen Road, Pine Bush, NY 12566.
This event has been organized by the Department on the Work With Youth of Patriarchal Parishes in the US which functions as a youth fellowship and charitable organization that carries on many social/ educational activities and provides volunteers to charitable and educational organizations in the Russian American community.
Contact Mr. Igor Kochan at (201) 774-0105. orthodoxyouthusa@gmail.com