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Alexander Gutyrya - The Wind

Height 40 3/4", wood, oil, 2009

Price: 9,200.00 GBP

Alexander is a very diverse artist. He paints with oil on canvas and on wood, carves wooden plaques, does graphic art and creates sculptures. Creating sculptures is his real passion. When sculpting, he works with wood, sandstone, and bronze. In his sculptures Alexander likes to incorporate such materials as mammoth ivory, marble and colored glass. These combinations of juxtaposing materials create powerful effects that greatly enhance the aesthetic and philosophic value of the artist’s work.
Alexander Gutyrya’s organically stylized sculptures are figurative and characterized by abstraction. The voluptuous forms of his works are multidimensional in what they convey. It can be a certain mood, specific moment in time, a thought or an idea. All these aspects of the artist’s inner world are conveyed in his works either simultaneously or in portions.

Artist Precis Biog:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 “The Return”, KUMF Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 The Laurie Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 Solo retrospective, The Museum of Archives, Edmonton, Canada
1999 Solo retrospective, The KUMF Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 Die Werkstatt Kunstgalerie, Baierbrunn, Munich, Germany (Two-men exhibition)
1994 The House of Arts, Mashonmadjarovar, Hungary
1993 The Mariott Hotel, Budapest, Hungary (Two-men exhibition)
1993 The Gallery of Modern Art, Kiev, Ukraine

MAJOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 “The Culture of Tripillya”, Ukrainian Embassy in Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2006 “Toronto Art Expo”, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2000 “The Third International Biennale”, The Marine Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
2000 “The Millennium”, The KUMF Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996 “The Steppe Shore”, The Ukrainian State Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
1992 “The Pacific Ocean Exhibition”, The Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Vancouver, Canada

COMISSIONS
2003 Donetsk, Ukraine, Public Art Commission – created three sandstone sculptures which located on the territory of the recreational park zone (“Park Ilicha”)
2000 The Seaport of Odessa, Odessa, Ukraine – created two wooden sculptures
1999 The Symposium on Sculpture, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada – created a wooden sculpture, “Cossack Mamai”, for the sculpture garden, commissioned by the Ivan Franko Home for the Aged
COLLECTIONS
Since 2000 The Ivan Franko Home for the Aged, Mississauga – five paintings, oil on canvas
Since 1996 The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev – “Silence”, a wooden sculpture
Since 1992 The Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Vancouver – “Sviato” (“The Feast”), a carved wooden plaque

WORKS SOLD AT THE AUCTIONS
2008 Still Life work (oil on canvas) sold at the Gardens of Versailles, A French Affair Auction & Gala, Portland, Oregon
2006 “Cossack Mamai” graphic work sold at the Children of Chornobyl Canadian Fund, Toronto

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2005 Member of the Ukrainian Association of Visual Artists of Canada (USOM)
1993 – 2004 Member of the Ukrainian Professional Union of Painters