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Media inquiries: it(a)ukrainianmuseum.org In Bloom: Nature and Art
Virtual opening March 20, 2021 New York—The Ukrainian Museum is pleased to present the exhibition In Bloom: Nature and Art, featuring selections from the Museum’s fine art and folk art collections curated by Jaroslaw Leshko, Professor Emeritus of Art, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Lubow Wolynetz, the Museum’s Curator of Folk Art. The exhibition explores the impact of the flower motif through the prism of Ukraine’s folk art traditions and the works of its preeminent artists of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In Bloom showcases more than 50 artworks by 21 artists and over 60 folk art objects, all highlighting floral themes. The exhibition will open to the public virtually with a free online event, fittingly scheduled for the first day of spring, Saturday evening, March 20, 2021. Viewers tuning in at 7 p.m. ET to the Museum's Facebook page or YouTube channel will be treated to a curator's gallery tour as well as to a performance by the Shelest Piano Duo. Among the artists featured in In Bloom is Oleksa Novakivsky, "whose Art School in Lviv (1923–1933) and vigorous, expansive painting technique influenced a generation of young artists. The floral motif became a strong presence in his oeuvre, perhaps nowhere more brilliantly explored than in the magisterial work Woman with Roses" (J. Leshko)—one of the most imposing works on display. A significant presence in the exhibition is a selection of works by Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky. As described by the guest curator, "the soft lyricism of Krychevsky’s still lifes is surpassed only by the breathtaking scope of his output as architect, painter, graphic designer, and one of the principal founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in 1917." Among the key artists whose creative periods also developed abroad are the renowned graphic artist Jacques Hnizdovsky, Alexis Gritchenko, who settled in France, Mychajlo Moroz, a protégé of Novakivsky, Luboslav Hutsaliuk, Nina Klymovska, and Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn. Viewers will be delighted by the numerous folk art items on view: exquisitely woven kilims, women’s costumes, women’s and men’s embroidered shirts, woven wrap-around skirts, embroidered and woven ritual cloths (rushnyky), primarily from the central regions of Ukraine, a rich display of the country’s signature, intricately decorated Easter eggs (pysanky), and ceramics from the Hutsul region. In Bloom: Nature and Art is accompanied by an illustrated exhibition catalogue ($29.95, www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop) with an essay by guest curator, Jaroslaw Leshko. In Bloom was originally slated to open in April 2020. Work on the exhibition was abruptly halted due to the mandated museum closings precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the Museum closed for the time being, the exhibition’s closing date is as yet undetermined.
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