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An interview by
and
, curator
curator
Irena Romendik
Photo by Olga Tsitron
from alien variables, and has a very specific
aftertaste. Ukrainian painting and graphic is
a wonderfully colorful interpretation of
Italian traditions because many Ukrainian
‘classical’ painters and teachers were
trained in Italy, and even Ukrainian icons
are more flourishing with colors then the
white-black-red-golds of Russia. I hope that
colors will never leave my paintings, even if
I only use black inks. Also, Shevchenko
School was a special oasis of alternative
Hello, happy for the opportunity to talk
about my work. I came to the US with a
Social Realism art education, which on the
one hand gave me a solid foundation for
classical drawing and painting, anatomy,
and art history, but on the other hand was
very limiting in its vocabulary of
expressions, just like classical ballet -- a self
sufficient enclosed system that shies away
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