Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 5-8pm
On View: July 12 – August 16
Morean Arts Center
719 Central Avenue

Mikhail Gubin was born in the Soviet Union in 1953. He studied at the Art and Technology College of Zagorsk, Moscow region, Russia. In 1989 he immigrated to the United States and settled in New York. His multimedia practice includes sculpture, drawing, painting, collage, photography and video. Mikhail has participated in 37 solo shows and over 200 group exhibitions in the US and internationally, receiving multiple awards, accolades and reviews (The New York Times among many others). He was awarded a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in the category of CRAFTS/SCULPTURE. In addition to his membership at the Morean, Mikhail is a member of the Audubon Artists Inc., the National Collage Society, and the Sculpture Guild of New York. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

“I have been working in the collage technique for many years. This technique provides me with great opportunities in my creative self-realization.

“It all started with simply cutting up magazines, followed by gluing the cut out pieces together into some surrealist visionary compositions. There was (and is) a period when I made charcoal drawings on large sheets of paper and then cut them up and glued them together to create abstract paintings. I love creating abstract paintings using pasted designs of paper or fabric.

“Somehow, the idea arose to create art objects from wood waste discarded by skyscraper builders after the construction was completed. I was probably inspired by a line from a poem by Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova:

‘…If you could know what gibberish empowers

The verse that grows, from all abashment freed…’

“No sooner said than done, I hauled mountains of these discarded boards and sheets of plywood into my New York art studio, and began sawing them into pieces and gluing them together. This is how my 3-dimensional collage sculptures were born.

“In this exhibition the viewer will see a little bit of everything: the whole spectrum of my artistic life. I hope it will arouse the viewer’s interest and he, passing by on more important matters, will stop for a moment.”

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