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|| the dynamics of life | CREATIVE MINDS
Interviewed by Olga Zbarskaya, Ph.D.
GRIGUR:
THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK
Creativity, by definition, is a phenomenon in which something new is
formed. I would like you to meet a true creator—an individual whose mind
functions in a unique way. On a daily basis, he produces works of novelty,
including paintings, sculptures, prose, costumes and masks, wooden and
bronze sculptures, and theatrical performances.
P
rofessor Grigory Gurevich (Grigur)—sculptor,
painter, graphic artist, printmaker, actor, writer, and
inventor—has had more than four hundred exhibi-
tions in the United States and Europe and con-
ducted hundreds of sculpture workshops in Italy,
Denmark, and the US. His award-winning paintings, draw-
ings, and sculptures can be found in public and private col-
lections in the US, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Croatia,
Slovakia, Switzerland, and France.
His bronze tableau of seven life-size figures entitled
"The Commuters," sculpted in 1985, is permanently in-
stalled in Newark Penn Station. His book Reflections,
which features seventeen linocuts, etchings, and mixed
media prints, has been included in the print collection of
the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, his four art
books are in collection of Library of Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, the New York Public Library, the Newark
Public Library, and the Rare Book Collection of Library of
Saint Bonaventure University.
In 1966, Grigur created the first professional pan-
tomime theater in Russia. As an actor, Grigory has ap-
peared in TV shows including Law and Order and movies
including Lady and the Hooligan.
I first met Grigory in 1999 when we performed at the
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