Black & White Gallery / Project Space, Southampton, NY is pleased to present the works from the Ukraine Art Fund. Founded in February of 2022 by the non-profit Black & White Project Space, Ukraine Art Fund supports Ukrainian artists and their families through difficult times of war.
The presentation features engaging selection of works by Ukrainian artists separated by time and space. It brings diverse works from different time periods into dialogue with each other illuminating how artists - almost half a century apart - respond to historical crosscurrents in their native Ukraine.
SOFIA ATLANTOVA | OLEXANDER KLIMENKO
ICONS ON AMMUNITION BOXES™
Icons on Ammunition Boxes™ (2014- ongoing) is a conceptual project by Kyiv-based husband-and-wife team Sofia Atlantova and Olexander Klimenko. Icons, painted on wood fragments from ammunition boxes left by Russian soldiers on the battle fields in Ukraine are silent war witnesses of enduring historic value and serve as symbols of victory of life over death. Since February 2023, the Project has supported Kryla Peremogy (Wings of Victory) volunteer organization in Ukraine that provides free medical assistance by ambulance to servicemen who were seriously injured and disabled during the Russia-Ukraine war. Services include transportation outside the hospital for additional examinations, consultation with doctors, and ambulatory treatments. From 2015 to 2022, the Project supported Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, the largest private hospital in Ukraine helping the army and civilian population.
SHIMON OKSHTEYN: MEMORIES OF THE PAST
Memories of the Past (1980-1982) is the selection of evocative works on paper by Ukrainian-American artist Shimon Okshteyn (b. Chernivtsi, Ukraine, lived and worked in New York City) created by the artist soon after his immigration to the USA from Ukraine. The presentation perfectly exemplifies the literal, metaphorical, and personal memories that stay with us across time and space.
In "Dreaming Of My City" watercolors the artist created imaginative reconstructions of his native Ukrainian city, rendering the city once deeply familiar unfamiliar, moving away and floating freely in space.
"Don't Forget There Are Relatives" drawings are of the old Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi. The cemetery has been long closed and is weed-choked. The drawings offer haunting testimony to how much the memory of this once vital Jewish community has been relegated to an almost abandoned past.
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