My work focuses on reconnecting time. Time is an illusory and shapeless substance. It is homogenous along its entire length, and we recognize each of its distinct ages by the objects it produces and leaves behind. Time is like a blank canvas on which each age leaves its own inimitable imprint, coloring it with its own recognizable objects. Our parents and grandparents, and generations that came before them, were all defined by the objects of their age. We see them in old photographs dressed in the fashion of the day, sitting next to their record players or driving their quaint motor cars. The old photographs, the black-and-white images printed on cardboard from the century before last or the Polaroids from the 1970s, are also now a thing of the past - as are earlier oil portrait of men and women who came before them. It is the objects that pin us to the blank canvas of our time.
I collect those objects, the images of the people they used to define and the ideas - in philosophy, technology, the arts - that gave rise to them, and put them in my work.
I work in a variety of media. I make paintings, collages, sculpture, drawings and ceramics. I scour flea markets looking for old object, for machines, mechanisms and devices of the past, whose purpose we no longer understand but that are ineluctably pinned to the age when they were created. They were once indispensable and useful, and they defined their time. I don't try to restore or even understand them, but I find a new life for them in my work.
Our own age is defined by the amazing variety of objects we have created, but even more so by the objects we have discarded. This doesn't mean that time has accelerated but rather that ages change one another at a kaleidoscopic pace, without having time to define themselves, to shape into an image or to leave a memory. I see my work as stringing together those half-formed shards of ages and reconnecting them into a continuous timeline.
RESUME
2017 "Postcards from the Edge" Metro Pictures Gallery New York.
2017 Show at Tatiana Nikitina’s Art Holding, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 AQUA. Miami.
2016 Solo Show at Gallery KINO, Moscow, Russia
2015 The Highline Loft, Chelsea. New York
2015 Art Miami New York. New York
2015 Art WYNWOOD, Miami.
2014 Art SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON. NY
2014 Group show in Kavachnina Contemporary Gallery. Miami
2014 Solo Show at Tatiana Nikitina’s Art Holding, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 Group show in Kavachnina Contemporary. Miami. Art Basel Week
2013 Show in AG Contemporary Art, New York
2012 Show in AG Contemporary Art, New York
2011 Show in AG Contemporary Art, New York
2011 Show in the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York
2010 Solo Show in AG Contemporary Art, New York
Group show in AG Contemporary Art, New York
2009-2010 Show in Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia
2008 Auction Phillips, New York
2008 Group show in Van Der Plas Gallery, New York
2007 Show in Grant Gallery, New York
Group Show at Art Gallery of UJA Federation, New York
2006 Solo Show in National Arts Club New York
International Art Show, Moscow. Russia
Group show in AG Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Solo Show in Grant Gallery, New York
Group show in Van Der Plas Gallery, New York
2005 Show in Grant Gallery, New York
Auction Drouot Richelieu, Paris
2004 Solo Show in Grant Gallery, New York
2003 Show in Grant Gallery, New York
Group show in Amsterdam
Auction -Benefit. UJA-Federation of New York
The SVG Collection. Nantucket, MA
2002 Solo show in Grant Gallery, New York
Solo show in Broome Street Gallery, New York
Auction -Benefit. LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS Houston, Texas
The SVG Collection . Nantucket, MA
2001 Solo show in Grant Gallery, New York. The SVG Collection. Nantucket, MA
2000 Solo show in Grant Gallery, New York
The SVG Collection. Nantucket, MA
Solo show in Broome Street Gallery, New York
Art Project for THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
1999 Solo show in Grant Gallery, New York
Solo show in Artmosphere, Palm Beach. Fl
Solo show in SVG Collection, Nantucket. MA
Solo show in Gallery 54, New York
Painted several murals in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Arnhem. Holland
1998 Solo show in Gallery 54, New York
Solo show in Artmosphere, Palm Beach. Fl
1997 Solo show in Gallery 54, New York
Group show in World Bank Art Society, Washington, DC
Group show in Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, New York
Group show in SVG Collection, Nantucket. MA
Group show in Lincoln Center, New York
1996 Solo show in Salon New York
Group show “The Book” 2/20 Gallery, New York
1995 International Art Show, Hong Kong
Solo show in Gallery Du Palace des Congress du Vinci, Tours, France
Solo show in Benedetti Gallery, New York
Group show in Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York
1994 Solo show in Philip Mouwes Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Personal exhibition at the Amsterdam Opera
Group show in Develin Gallery, New York
Group show in SVG Collection, Nantucket. MA
Group show in Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Created murals at the Columbus Hospital, New York
1993 Solo show in Ergane Gallery, New York
Group show in China Club, Hong Kong.
1992 Solo show in Ergane Gallery, New York
Group show in Robert Dana Gallery, San Francisco
Group show “Freedom of Expression” at Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Group show “Gorbachev from the Artist Perspective”, Ohio State University
1991 Solo show in Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago
Group show in Beaulieu Museum, France
Solo show in Ergane Gallery, New York
Group show in Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
1990 Solo show in Bettal Gallery, New York
Group show in Suzanne Dey Gallery, San Francisco
Group show at Golda Meir Association, New York
1978-90 Participated in exhibitions at the Artist’s House, Moscow
Three group show in Graphic State Committee, Moscow, Russia
1978 Awarded membership to the Moscow Union of Artist
1978 Awarded membership to Graphic State Committee, Moscow, Russia