Reception: Wednesday, July 2, 6-8:30 PM

NEW YORK – Globe Institute Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of paintings by Vyacheslav Shevchuk. On exhibition will be twenty-three paintings, in ink and watercolor on fabric. These paintings are representations of landscapes through the artist’s own handling of a Chinese pictorial vocabulary.

In these works, clouds, mountains, trees, light and shadow are represented as natural entities. Yet these references are at once formed and framed by self-assertive and self-defined free and controlled brushworks, along with flat and abstract areas. Within the domain of these brushworks of watercolors and ink on silk and cotton lie additional elements of abstraction: marks, indexes, traces, gestures, permeations.

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Mr. Shevchuk has studied under the well-renowned Chinese artist Li Dzhin, professor of painting and calligraphy at the Beijing Academy of Art. Through these pictures, West meets the Far East, unfolding the phenomenology of painting, perception, temporality and medium. As Professor Norman Bryson has noted regarding Chinese painting, “…landscape is certainly the subject, but equally the subject is the work of the brush in ‘real time’ and as extension of the painter’s own body.” [1]

For further information please contact: Raphy Sarkissian, at 212.349.4330 extension 114.

[1] Norman Bryson, Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), p. 89.