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Serhiy Hai: Paintings

October 14, 2016 - December 11, 2016


Serhiy Hai, Untitled (Horse and Rider), 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas, 51 x 67 inches.

Serhiy Hai: Paintings

October 14 to December 11, 2016

Opening reception for the artist: Friday, October 14, 6 – 8 PM.

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Art at the Institute is pleased to announce the start to its Fall 2016 season with an exhibition of paintings by noted Ukrainian artist Serhiy Hai. Curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, director of Art at the Institute, the exhibition will be the Lviv-based artist’s second solo show with The Ukrainian Institute of America. Please join us for an opening reception for the artist on Friday, October 14, from 6 – 8 PM.

The exhibition will feature four groups of paintings depicting iconic motifs traditional to the canon of western art: riders and horses, nudes, masks, and still-lifes—themes the artist has explored comprehensively throughout his prolific career.

As a formalist with a nod to the School of Paris, and a visceral affinity with archaic Etruscan conventions, Hai’s paintings are as much about surface and the process of painting as they are about subject and its subtlety. There exists an inner connection between his chosen motifs—partly understood as symbols of a lost humanity (unidentifiable visages), partly as symbols of the mysteries of life on earth—and the forms that transmit them to us purely on the aesthetic, the “beautiful.”

Serhiy Hai was born in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1986, he graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. The artist has participated in exhibitions throughout Ukraine, Austria, Denmark, England, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States, most recently with the TEW Galleries in Atlanta, GA. He lives and works in Lviv.

Exhibition hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12 – 6 PM, or by appointment.

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Serhiy Hai: Paintings

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Start:
October 14, 2016
End:
December 11, 2016
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Ukrainian Institute of America