Exhibition: Heart of Russia, Beyond Borders
April 10 - May 9 2015 Opening Reception: Friday April 10, 5:30-8:30pm
A group show of Russian painters, past to present, from both sides of the Atlantic, transcending the political divide.
This exhibit affords a rare opportunity for Bay Area art lovers to acquaint themselves with contemporary Russian painters, as well as the "Underground" or forbidden Russian Art movement beginning in the early 20th century.
Featured painters include: Anatole Andrianov, Aron Bukh, Vera Elnitskaya, Moses Feigin, Klara Galytsina, Evgeny Ginzburg, Vyacheslav Grachev, Serge Kogan, Oleg Lang, Dimitry Plavinsky, Lev Povzner, Victor Razgulin, Yuri Ryzhik, Brothers Smolin, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Valery Svetlitsky, Ilya Tabenkin, Pavel Tchelitchew, Boris Tyomkin, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Annamukhamed Zaripov, Nina Zhilinskaya, Anatoly Zeverev...and more.
Guest Curator: Serge Kogan
Events
Friday April 24, 7pm: Film Event: Screening of documentary, The Desert of Forbidden Art, directed by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope. Refreshments. $5 at the door.
Friday May 1, 7pm: Film Event: Screening of Kandinsky and the Russian House, directed by Michael Craig, one in a series of six films on the Russian Avante-garde by Michael Craig and Copernicus films: www.russianavantgarde.copernicusfilms.com. Refreshments. $5 at the door.
Friday May 8, 7pm: Poetry Evening: Irina Dyatlovskaya and Daniel Marlin will read from some of the great well-known and some of the overlooked Russian poets of the 20th century, Russian, Yiddish and English translation. Meryl Natchez from her anthology of poets, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, and Nicolay Gumilev. Poems from the Stray Dog Café & Lissa Tyler Renaud from the little known poems of Wassily Kandinsky.
Refreshments. Larry Felson hosts. Free.
April 10 - May 9 2015 Opening Reception: Friday April 10, 5:30-8:30pm
A group show of Russian painters, past to present, from both sides of the Atlantic, transcending the political divide.
This exhibit affords a rare opportunity for Bay Area art lovers to acquaint themselves with contemporary Russian painters, as well as the "Underground" or forbidden Russian Art movement beginning in the early 20th century.
Featured painters include: Anatole Andrianov, Aron Bukh, Vera Elnitskaya, Moses Feigin, Klara Galytsina, Evgeny Ginzburg, Vyacheslav Grachev, Serge Kogan, Oleg Lang, Dimitry Plavinsky, Lev Povzner, Victor Razgulin, Yuri Ryzhik, Brothers Smolin, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Valery Svetlitsky, Ilya Tabenkin, Pavel Tchelitchew, Boris Tyomkin, Vladimir Yakovlev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Annamukhamed Zaripov, Nina Zhilinskaya, Anatoly Zeverev...and more.
Guest Curator: Serge Kogan
Events
Friday April 24, 7pm: Film Event: Screening of documentary, The Desert of Forbidden Art, directed by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope. Refreshments. $5 at the door.
Friday May 1, 7pm: Film Event: Screening of Kandinsky and the Russian House, directed by Michael Craig, one in a series of six films on the Russian Avante-garde by Michael Craig and Copernicus films: www.russianavantgarde.copernicusfilms.com. Refreshments. $5 at the door.
Friday May 8, 7pm: Poetry Evening: Irina Dyatlovskaya and Daniel Marlin will read from some of the great well-known and some of the overlooked Russian poets of the 20th century, Russian, Yiddish and English translation. Meryl Natchez from her anthology of poets, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, and Nicolay Gumilev. Poems from the Stray Dog Café & Lissa Tyler Renaud from the little known poems of Wassily Kandinsky.
Refreshments. Larry Felson hosts. Free.
