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Alexander "Sasha" Spivak is professional artist, MFA.
After 24 years of living in New York, USA in 2014 Alexander "Sasha" Spivak relocated his Art Studio to Western Massachusetts, USA. Alexander "Sasha" Spivak's study of fine art began at an early age and showed incredible promise. He started to develop his unique style when at the Lviv College of Fine Arts. The artist's unusual yet sophisticated imagery brought him through the surrealistic period to the series of technically perfect symbolic and rich in content art. Constantly developing his style Alexander "Sasha" Spivak established his own visual world of POETIC SYMBOLISM. After too many questions about connection of the style to a poetry Alexander came up with a formula "POETIC SYMBOLISM = ROMANTIC SURREALISM". The "Grace of Interrelations" is a leitmotif of every artists artwork. Alexander Spivak's paintings are in private collections among masterpieces of such prominent artists as Wasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Mark Shagal, Salvador Dali, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagava Hiroshige. |
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Alexander Spivak about his art:
What would it mean to develop an idiom of plasticity in painting? The question has been on my mind for a while. In each of my works, I seek perfection of composition by attending to the finest details — and yet always leave room for something else, something unexpected, to emerge within the structure I’ve created. This is an audacious attempt on my part to sidestep visual art’s greatest handicap: unlike music, literature and theater, it cannot shape a narrative that unfolds in time. Such absence of a temporal dimension necessarily narrows the field of meanings to which a work of art can give rise. In confronting this challenge, I arrived at a method of formal transformation of objects. When, within the confines of a single work, an object is transformed into something else, the range of possible meanings expands. So even as I continue to believe in the virtues of static composition, which heightens the sense of the fragmentariness of being itself, I aim to make it possible for a series of dynamic meanings to emerge within the narrative I create.
What would it mean to develop an idiom of plasticity in painting? The question has been on my mind for a while. In each of my works, I seek perfection of composition by attending to the finest details — and yet always leave room for something else, something unexpected, to emerge within the structure I’ve created. This is an audacious attempt on my part to sidestep visual art’s greatest handicap: unlike music, literature and theater, it cannot shape a narrative that unfolds in time. Such absence of a temporal dimension necessarily narrows the field of meanings to which a work of art can give rise. In confronting this challenge, I arrived at a method of formal transformation of objects. When, within the confines of a single work, an object is transformed into something else, the range of possible meanings expands. So even as I continue to believe in the virtues of static composition, which heightens the sense of the fragmentariness of being itself, I aim to make it possible for a series of dynamic meanings to emerge within the narrative I create.
List of Shows:
Personal Exhibition – Forbes Library, Hosmer Gallery, Northapton, MA. Apr. 2016
Personal Exhibition – The Art Gallery, 264 Main Street, Lincoln, NH. Oct. 2015
Three Men Show – The Empty Spaces Project gallery, Putnam, CT, Sept., 2015
Solo Show at Burnett Gallery, Amherst MA – August 2014
Group exhibition "Tragic Love" – The Empty Spaces Project gallery, Putnam, CT,Feb., 2014
Group show at The Boxcar Gallery, Greenfield MA – January 2014.
Number of group shows through the last years.
Personal exhibition at Dzian gallery, MA – 2009.
Number of group shows through the last years.
Personal exhibition at InterArt gallery, New York - January, 2006
Personal exhibition at the Mission of Russian Federation to United Nations - December 2005.
Personal exhibition at InterArt gallery, New York - January, 2005
Group exhibition at Symbol Gallery, New York - December, 2004
Fine art auction at Salmagundi Art Club, New York - October, 2004
Personal Exhibition, at the General Consulate of Russia in New York, dedicated to
Monaco festival in New York (sponsored by BMW & Sony) - june 2004
Personal Exhibition, Inter Art Gallery, New York - April 22 - May 15, 2004
Artexpo, New York - 2004
Personal Exhibition at the General Consulate of Russia in New York, May 2003
Personal Exhibition, Amarcord Gallery, Beacon, NY, - January 2003
Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA - 2002
Artexpo, New York - 2002
Cohen & Rese Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2001
Artexpo, New York - 1994
Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art, Carnegie Center, Princeton, N.J. - 1991
"The Golden View", a Five Man Show, Allan Art Gallery, Singapore (with
Wasily Kandinsky & Kazimir Malevich) - 1991
Edward Nachamkin Gallery, New York - 1991
Lubin Collection Gallery, New York - 1990
One Man Show, Contemporary Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine - 1990
The Show of Contemporary Fine Art, Museum of Visual Arts, Lviv, Ukraine - 1988
Personal Exhibition – Forbes Library, Hosmer Gallery, Northapton, MA. Apr. 2016
Personal Exhibition – The Art Gallery, 264 Main Street, Lincoln, NH. Oct. 2015
Three Men Show – The Empty Spaces Project gallery, Putnam, CT, Sept., 2015
Solo Show at Burnett Gallery, Amherst MA – August 2014
Group exhibition "Tragic Love" – The Empty Spaces Project gallery, Putnam, CT,Feb., 2014
Group show at The Boxcar Gallery, Greenfield MA – January 2014.
Number of group shows through the last years.
Personal exhibition at Dzian gallery, MA – 2009.
Number of group shows through the last years.
Personal exhibition at InterArt gallery, New York - January, 2006
Personal exhibition at the Mission of Russian Federation to United Nations - December 2005.
Personal exhibition at InterArt gallery, New York - January, 2005
Group exhibition at Symbol Gallery, New York - December, 2004
Fine art auction at Salmagundi Art Club, New York - October, 2004
Personal Exhibition, at the General Consulate of Russia in New York, dedicated to
Monaco festival in New York (sponsored by BMW & Sony) - june 2004
Personal Exhibition, Inter Art Gallery, New York - April 22 - May 15, 2004
Artexpo, New York - 2004
Personal Exhibition at the General Consulate of Russia in New York, May 2003
Personal Exhibition, Amarcord Gallery, Beacon, NY, - January 2003
Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA - 2002
Artexpo, New York - 2002
Cohen & Rese Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2001
Artexpo, New York - 1994
Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art, Carnegie Center, Princeton, N.J. - 1991
"The Golden View", a Five Man Show, Allan Art Gallery, Singapore (with
Wasily Kandinsky & Kazimir Malevich) - 1991
Edward Nachamkin Gallery, New York - 1991
Lubin Collection Gallery, New York - 1990
One Man Show, Contemporary Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine - 1990
The Show of Contemporary Fine Art, Museum of Visual Arts, Lviv, Ukraine - 1988