Jurij Solovij
Jurij Solovij was a Ukrainian-American painter, essayist and a member of New York Group of Poets.
Biography
Jurij Solovij was born on 6 January 1921 in Staryi Sambir.He graduated from the art and industrial school in Lviv. Later he lived in Germany and Rutherford, New Jersey in the United States.
He has participated in more than 20 exhibitions, including collective shows of Ukrainian artists in Munich, exhibitions at the Nuremberg Museum, as well as vernissages at the Universities of Chicago and New York and galleries in Toronto and New York City.
Solovij began his career under the influence of neocubism, and in the 1950s and 1960s his works were marked by the features of the New York Expressionist school. His works often feature religious motifs. Solovij also actively experimented with unconventional materials in sculpture and painting, using plastic and feathers.
He exhibited his paintings in Munich, Trenton, Chicago, and Toronto. He experimented with the material and developed Christian themes. In 2007, during the opening of the Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, 42 paintings and graphic works by Jurij Solovij were presented.
He died on 23 April 2007 in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Literary creativity
Publications, essays:- Pro rechi bilshi nizh zori: zbirka statei
- Bahato tem // Suchasnist. 1962. Part 7.
- Vidvidyny "Na hori" // Suchasnist. 1962. Part 12. P. 71-97.
Painting creativity
Author of paintings in miniature and serial forms, including:- "Materynstvo"
- "Astralne"
- "Rozpiattia"
- Cycles "Materynstvo", "Buttia", "Smert"
- Series "1000 holiv"