Serge Semernin
Artist’s Statement:
I am very happy that God gave me the ability and the opportunity to create Art, to think about it, and to try to comprehend and perceive my being and world around me through Art. I tackle problems in the realm of emotions and lucid expressiveness, and I look for their resolution on the cusp of intuition and philosophy. My creative process is directed toward investigating color, texture, and interplay of the surface of the canvas with the illusions created through visual perception of the image. My Art is somewhat elitist and therefore is understood and appreciated by a select audience. Nevertheless, I am convinced I am on the right path.
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I tackle problems in the realm of emotions and lucid expressiveness, and I look for their resolution on the cusp of intuition and philosophy. My creative process is directed toward investigating color, texture, and interplay of the surface of the canvas with the illusions created through visual perception of the image.
Biography
1956 Born in Kharkov, Ukraine
1978 Graduated from the Kharkov Institute of Arts, major in Theatrical Scenery
1978-87 Art Fund of SSSR, Department of Monumental Propaganda (large scale posters and murals)
1987 Joined Ukrainian Artists Union
1987 Present Freelance Artist
Work can be found in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Australia, America, Israel, Sweden, and England.
MAIN EXHIBITIONS
2010 Summeryveiw Group Show, OK Harris Gallery, NYC
2006 Group Show, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2004 Group Show, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
2002 Group Show, Grant Gallery, NYC
2000 Personal Show, Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ
1998 Group Show, Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ
1997 Group Show in personal art Studio, Brooklyn NY
1996 43rd Group Annual Regional Exhibition, Public Library Gallery, NYC
October 28, 1996 – Honorable Mention
1996 Group Show, Hermitage Art Gallery, NY
1995 Group Show, Dukakis Art Gallery, Chicago
1995 Group Show, Kiev Art Fair, Art Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
1994 Personal Show, Today Gallery. Moscow, Russia
1993 Consumentart Group Show, Nuremberg, Germany
1992 X-Landscape Group Show, A-3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1992 Unfigurative Art Group Show, Art Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
1991 Personal Show, Art Museum. Kharkov, Ukraine
1990 Pittori Moscovitti Contemporanei Group Show, Palazzo Rondanini Alla Rotonda, Rome
1989 Group Show, Biennally Painting & Drawing Art Museum, Varna, Bulgaria
1988 Glasnost Group Show, Kunsthalle-Enden Museum, Germany
1987 Art Group Show, Hungary
1986 Group Show, Multinational Art Fair, London, England
