Jan 20, 2025

Geometric Abstraction: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection

February 1 – June 1, 2025.

Leonid Borisov (1943, Leningrad–2013, St. Petersburg). Composition K. No.2, 1983. Oil on canvas, 23-5/8 x 29-5/8 in.
Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation

I am pleased to participate in an upcoming exhibition Geometric Abstraction: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection 
https://tmora.org/2024/12/21/geometric-abstraction-selections-from-the-kolodzei-art-foundation-collection/


The exhibition Geometric Abstraction: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection features several artistic generations who worked in the Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and countries to which they immigrated, during the 20th and early 21st centuries. The show includes works in different media—paintings, works on paper, photography, sculpture–focusing, however, on a single style, that of geometric abstraction. Among the illustrious names are the masters of Soviet unofficial art Lydia Masterkova (1927, Moscow–2008, Saint-Laurent-sur-Othain, France), Maria Elkonina (1935, Moscow–2018, Moscow), Leonid Borisov (1943, Leningrad–2013, St. Petersburg), Leonid Lamm (1928, Moscow–2017, New York), Gennadii Zubkov (1940, Perm–2021, St. Petersburg), Francisco Infante (born 1943, Vasilievka, Saratov, Russia; lives and works in Moscow) as well as a bright constellation of artists, currently active. 

Participating artists include: Leonid Borisov, Sergei Bordachev, Borukh (Boris Shteinberg), Maria Elkonina, Natalia Elkonina, Anton Ginzburg, Nonna Goriunova, Francisco Infante-Arana, Mukhadin Kishev, Vyacheslav Koleichuk, Leonid Lamm, Valentina Lebedeva-Lesin, Lydia Masterkova, Mikhail Molochnikov, Alexander Ney, Slava Polishchuk, Andrei Proletsky, Igor Shelkovsky, Eduard Shteinberg, San San Kara (Alexander Karasev), Igor Snegur, Gennadii Sukhanov, Valerii Yurlov, Alexander Yulikov, Gennadii Zubkov

Geometric Abstraction: Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection will be on view in the Mezzanine Gallery February 1 – June 1, 2025, with a special opening reception on Saturday, February 1, 7:00 – 9:00 PM.

Kolodzei Art Foundation
http://www.kolodzeiart.org/