Instaling my work at the Derfner Judaica Museum and Hebrew Home

Group Show

Making Continuity Contemporary: Eastern Europe in New York

Curated by: Emily O'Leary

 

Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale

 

It is always so much fun to prepare for the show. This time I showed my work in a verity of media.
Enjoy a few moments of me installing my work.

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Maryna Bilak

Making Continuity Contemporary: Eastern Europe in New York

I'm delighted to be part of this upcoming show, which is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

 

Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce its latest exhibition Making Continuity Contemporary: Eastern Europe in New York on view in the Elma and Milton A. Gilbert Pavilion Gallery from March 13–July 17, 2016. This exhibition featuring work by eight artists originally from Eastern Europe addresses themes of personal history, geographical dislocation, identity, and intellectual freedom. An opening reception with the artists will take place in the Gallery on March 13 from 1:30–3 pm. R.S.V.P. 718-581-1596 or art@hebrewhome.org. 

In different ways, each artist explores the disruptions and continuities in their cultural backgrounds, whether through pictorial abstraction, participatory projects, auditory or written language, or conceptual reinterpretation of cultural symbols. Their mediums also range widely and include hand-drawn animation and audio, chemigrams, painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, and installation.

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Long Island City Arts Open

So excited to be part of this great 5th annual art festival in my new neighborhood - 

Long Island City, NY

For the first time I'm showing my sculpture together with my paintings. 

 Gaze, 2014, clay

Little Heads - Tough Thoughts, 2014, clay

Here is the link to the LIC Arts Open:

http://licartsopen.org

Maryna Bilak

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Looking at human figure - clay sculptures

Maryna Bilak
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Abstract Way To Express Things Becoms the Most Real

Forms touch each other and embrace each other. There is no way to fight the gravity. One thing will lie on top of other.   

The cloth like skin takes the form of the flesh while thin plaster is being pored inside. Wounded flesh got stitching. The flow of liquid is heavy, there is nothing much you can control. But then it becomes solid and hard and you feel the warmth in your hands. And then it is cold and dry. You ask yourself Is it about those beautiful disgusting things? Is it all about flesh?

The perfect circle was dead. No matter from what side you look at it, it is all the same. The other little form touched it and suddenly it is all different, it offers you the complexity which seduces your eye. It has to grow from inside out. That is the way the nature creates the form. That is the way the artist wants to be.

Maryna Bilak
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