Friday, July 14, 2017

Maryna Maurice Collaboration Sculpture Project

For the first time my husband and I will show the work we made together!

Sp grateful to Greene County Council on the Arts


Maryna Maurice Collaboration

Title: Negative Space of Positive Bodies
Sculpture project
Medium: plaster


Our sculpture is a result of an attempt to capture the shape of air between our bodies. Honoring gravity, respecting material, using intuitive thinking and sense of compositional harmony we let nature play a role in a making process.
The physical act involves our two bodies and the sculpture material, which from liquid transforms into solid substance.
While we share an intimate space together a substance is used between our flesh. The result work is an abstract image of a space between two identities (husband and wife) supporting and balancing each other and sharing a sensual space together.  A negative space between two positively energized forms manifests possibilities of two characters interacting physically and emotionally. 

GCCA’s “Co-Lab Lab” Exhibition to Focus on the Art of Collaboration
A multi-generational, multi-discipline exploration of “working together”

Calendar Entry:  The Co-Lab Lab (an exhibit centered on collaboration). July 29, 2017 through September 23, 2017. Opening Reception, Saturday July 29, 5-7 p.m. GCCA Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY.  Gallery Hours: M-F 10-5, Sat. 12-5. FREE.  www.greenearts.org518-943-3400










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http://www.greenearts.org 
Greene County Council on the Arts

Maryna Bilak Maurice Haughton  
Марина Білак 

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Highlites from AFTER TIFFANY opening

After Tiffany - is my 6th solo show in New York. Coincidentally it was part of the 6th Annual LIC Arts Open Festival. At this show I presented 13 works through which I went after a message of personal story.



Who can be happy?
And who talks about wanting to be happy but doesn’t know how?
Is my happiness a choice?
High pressure and extreme temperature became normal.
And we went under earth.  
And we went digging and digging,
And when I almost was ready to give up right there, deep underground Hard rock under extreme pressure and extreme high temperature transformed into a diamond.
People say only under these circumstances, only in this heavy way the diamond can be born.
While listening to jazz we put that diamond on my finger.
And after tiffany…after tiffany, it didn’t become easier or cooler.
After tiffany it is not all in greenish blue.
And that is how I know we have a chance to find more of those precious stones.   



 During the introduction speech to the show I recited my first poem in English





 (from right) Maurice Haughton, me, Scott Marshall Griffin, Melanie Lemieux

 with Melanie Lemieux - the owner/director of New York Stage of Mind


 with Emily O'Leary - Associate Curator at Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, and Ana Paulina Sucre
 with painter Mariella Franceschi


 TV and radio host Miguel Moreno and sculptor Kathryn Beckwith


   Performance by Ariel Kleinberg

with artist Maud Bryt

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Марина Білак 

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Event AFTER TIFFANY welcoms Ariel Kleinberg

My show AFTER TIFFANY at New York Stage of Mind will be welcoming a great artist
Ariel Kleinberg. Ariel is a painter and performer from New York, NY. We anticipate to see a special performance filled with mysterious symbols reflecting the complexity of creative being.  

http://www.arielkleinberg.com/

AFTER TIFFANY
Opening reception - Thursday, May 19th, 6-9pm
at New York Stage of Mind
37-34 29th St, Long Island City , NY 11101
LIC Arts Open 2016


Sunday, May 15, 2016

LIC Arts Open - After Tiffany - Maryna Bilak




My Third Show in May - AFTER TIFFANY
A story (a personal one) about diamond and life after it.
Opening reception - Thursday, May 19th, 6-9pm
at New York Stage of Mind
37-34 29th St, Long Island City , NY 11101
LIC Arts Open 2016 - The biggest Annual Art Festival in Long Island City








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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

LIC Arts Open 2016 - Maryna Bilak - details

 Long Island City Arts Open Festival 2016


HUNGARIAN PASSION
38-8 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101

Opening reception - Wednesday, May 18th 6-9 pm   


 New York Stage of Mind 
37-34 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101

AFTER TIFFANY
Painting and installation
Opening reception - Thursday, May 19th  6-9pm.  


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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Long Island Asrts Open 2016 - Maryna Bilak

Long Island Arts Open - is the biggest art festival in Queens, NY.
All galleries, small and big business are coming together every year in order to collect and promote ideas which help to develop neighborhoods of Long Island City.

This year I will be showing my work in two different places,
but both of them will be part of LICArts Open 2016.

First show
Hungarian Passion
Opening reception Wednesday, May 18th, 6-9pm
38-8 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101







 
Second show at the New York Stage of Mind
Opening reception Thursday, May 19th, 6-9pm
37-34 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101


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Friday, April 22, 2016

LIC Arts Open 2016 - Maryna Bilak

The 6th Annual LIC Arts Open is happening May 18 - May 22 and is expected to be its biggest yet. Since 2011, the LIC Arts Open -- Queens' largest arts festival -- has been bringing together artists, residents,  businesses, tourists, local government, art enthusiasts and collectors to help foster Long Island City's cultural and economic development. The festival has done much to raise the profile of Long Island City, home to one of the largest and most diverse arts communities in New York City.

I am so proud to be part of this project.