THE ART SCENE

Paintings by Isaievych on display in New York

NEW YORK - An exhibit of paintings by Alexandra Isaievych, titled "Reconciling Anxiety and Authenticity," opens on Thursday, February 1, at The Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive at 120th Street.

Ms. Isaievych, a native of Lviv, who practiced art both in Ukraine and in the United States, currently lives in Summit, N.J. She sees her art as a process of "reconciling and integrating in a constantly evolving balance the contradictions between chaos and order, intuition and reason, anxiety and authenticity." Spontaneous and colorful textures, marks and drips energize her canvases upon which translucent, carefully outlined figures are superimposed. The formal juxtaposition of randomness and order creates a vibrant and harmonious whole.

A graduate of the Ivan Trush College of Applied Arts in Lviv, Ms. Isaievych continued her art education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University, receiving a B.A. in fine arts in 1992. In July of 2000 she completed a summer studio residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Ms. Isaievych also holds a master's degree in economics and public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and has worked on several economic policy assistance programs in Ukraine.

Apart from solo shows at the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton ("Dreamscapes"), the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute ("Roads Through the World: Drawings and Paintings") and Harvard Law School ("Continuing My Travels: Drawings and Sketches"), she has participated in group shows at the Ukrainian Institute of America, most recently on January 26 as part of the Yara Arts Group's "Malanka: Contemporary Artists, Writers, and Performers React to the Pagans," as well as at the members' show at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts in Summit, N.J.

Ms. Isaievych's work may be seen through February 23 at the Treasure Room Gallery of The Interchurch Center, a corporate center for a variety of non-profit organizations, both religious and secular, including those that sponsor of cultural programming. A reception for the artist will be held on Tuesday, February 13, at 4-7 p.m. (Free parking in building garage after 4:30 p.m.; use 61 Claremont Ave. entrance after 5 p.m.) Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Selected works by the artist may be found on the Internet at: http://members.home.net/aisaiev/.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 28, 2001, No. 4, Vol. LXIX

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