Museum of Russian Icons reopens with Painted Poetry: Alexander Gassel
Alexander Gassel, Russian Village, 2010.
CLINTON, MASS
.-The Museum of Russian Icons presents Painted Poetry, a retrospective exhibition of contemporary works by Russian-born American artist and designer Alexander Gassel. Blending the avant-garde with traditional Russian iconography, combining ancient symbols with contemporary subjects, Gassel creates extraordinarily vivid paintings that reflect his cultural heritage alongside his life experience in America.
Artist, conservator, and writer Alexander Gassel s work combines ancient icon painting techniques with Biblical, mythological, contemporary, and deeply personal narratives. His distinctive style is a synthesis of Art Deco designs influenced by Erté, narrative genre scenes evoking Chagall, saturated color schemes recalling Kandinsky, and complex formal structures reminiscent of Malevich, all combining to make for a highly sophisticated and individual
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Museum of Russian Icons announces death of founder Gordon B. Lankton
Gordon left an indelible mark on the town of Clinton, turning old, otherwise abandoned buildings on Union Street into Nypro Inc. and the Museum of Russian Icons, both globally recognized organizations.
CLINTON, MASS
.- The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons announced the death of founder Gordon B. Lankton. After opening a branch of his plastics manufacturing company in Moscow in 1992, he came to appreciate Russian culture, particularly the icon, the emblematic sacred art form stemming from the Byzantine traditions of the Russian Orthodox Christian faith. Gordon founded the Museum of Russian Icons in 2006. From his early days as a Boy Scout collecting pennies, Gordon was a studious and passionate collector. Whether it was icons, African sculpture, World War I and II posters, or die-cast model cars, Gordon tirelessly pursued not only the objects, but also information about their origins and the artis
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ATHENS, GA
.- Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realisms reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism from February 27 to June 13, 2021, seeking to reexamine how we define magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category. The term magic realism was popularized in 1943 during the exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), organized by curator Dorothy C. Miller with assistance from museum director Alfred H. Barr Jr. and arts impresario Lincoln Kirstein. The Georgia Museum of Arts exhibition includes works originally presented in MoMAs show, including paintings by Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, Z. Vanessa Helder and Patsy Santo, as well as other . More