GRIGUR ART CREATIONS

ON THE LEFT:
PASTEL PORTRAIT
TRIBUTE TO MARCEL MARCEAU
Who was my friend and
inspiration for me to create
my Pantomime pieces and company.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY Grigory Gurevich
282 Barrow St,
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Tel. 201 451 4862
Email:grigur@netzero.net
Websites: www.grigorygurevich.com
www.art-index.org /in the process/
www.number1artist.com/grigur
(please click on "My Art"to see the artwork)
www.number1artist.com/grigorygurevich
(please click on "my pictures" to see the artwork)

Grigory Gurevich is an interior designer, sculptor, painter, photographer, graphic artist, printmaker, mime /director and performer/, art book maker and inventor.

He has had more then 300 exhibitions in the United States and Europe and conducted hundreds of sculpture and pantomime workshops in Italy, Denmark, Russia and the United States. His paintings, drawings and sculptures have won numerous awards and are in private and public collections in Russia, Switzerland, France, Germany and Slovakia.

He received a Masters degree in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine and Industrial Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was a professor at St. Johns University, NY and faculty member of Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. His bronze tableau of seven life-size figures entitled "The Commuters", sculpted in 1985, is installed in Newark Penn Station. His book "Reflections" features 17 linocuts, etchings and mixed media prints has been included in the print collection of New York Public Library as well as the Rare Book Collection of Newark Public Library, Library of Saint Bonaventure University and Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia. In April 1995 Mr. Gurevich was granted a patent on a new type of manifolding book, one of which "Numbers 1-10, 10-1ï" is in the collection at the Brooklyn Museum. Three different kind of books are in collection of Library at Columbia University of Chicago.

Mr. Gurevich created concept on Pencil Drawing Technique and Concept on Sculpture of Human Head and had many workshops, and provided many demonstrations on this subject in the United States, Russia, Denmark and Italy.

As a mime Mr. Gurevich /Grigur is his stage name/ created "Grigur's Pantomime Theater" in St. Peterburg, Russia in 1969 and later, in 1979 in the United States. He and his company performed throughout Russia, as well as in Denmark, Germany and U.S. and were members of famous "Theater Estrada" with Arkady Raikin. He was a student and a friend of Marcel Marceau - world famous mime. Grigur created choreography for theater productions such as: "Strider" in Gorky Theater in Leningrad /later appeared on Broadway in New York City/, "Orpheus and Euridica" with Mark Rosovsky, "Mozart and Saliery", opera by Offenbach "Blue Bird" with choreographer Sidelnikov and participated with his company in movies: "Shadow" - director Nadezda Kosheverova, with Oleg Dal, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Gerdt, Fillipof, Gurchenko, and other leading Russian actors. He played part of crupie in the movie "Gambler", in a "Lady and the Hooligan" as a choreographer with his company, and other movie productions. He and his company appeared on many television programs in Russia and in the United States.

In 1979 he founded in New York Non-Profit Organization "Grigur's Pantomime Theater" and after relocating to Jersey City in 1978 created first artistic union "The Art Center" in Jersey City, which became a prototype of "Proarts".

In 1998 he found in Jersey City "Arts on the Hudson" after school art program for gifted and talented children.
He received major support from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts in cooperation with Hudson County, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, CDBG, Provident Bank, Staples Foundation and other foundations and businesses. Arts on the Hudson serves community with Art Workshops Festivals, Art Exhibitions, helps leading workshop artists to get a job and helps talented children from low income families to study art with professional artists.

The art work, Mr. Gurevich produced, is in private collections of famous personalities as Marcel Marceau in France, Arkady Raikin in Russia as well as in Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Slovakia,Croatia and the United States.

In the spring of 2006 he participated as a performer and Director in the International Theater Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia and exhibited his photographs and graphic works in the International Photography and Fine Art exhibition in Manege, St Petrburg, Russia.

ABOUT THE ARTIST BY DEMETRIA DE LIA
Entering the world of Grigory Gurevich's artistic vision, one finds a horizon rich in hue, texture, media and mood. In multiplicity of stile, variety of inventiveness, Gurevich's oeuvre epitomizes twentieth century art as a whole. During his education at St. Peterburg's prestigious Academy of Fine and Industrial Arts, Gurevich cultivated an aesthetic ideal, while receiving a practical education as well. This educational scaffold supported the creative and prolific fruition of his enormous talent and versatility. Mr. Gurevich's range includes watercolor, acrylic, oil, sculpture, pencil drawing, mobils, ceramics, hand made books, photography, jewelry, interior and furniture design. His representational work reflects his classical training and precision, while the non-representational pieces suggest impressions of primary process and archetypal images of the unconscious. When Mr. Gurevich immigrated to the United States in the late 70's, his fascination with pen and ink captured his imagination. Through printmaking, woodcuts,etchings, lithographs and engravings, a sophisticated skill emerged with boundless energy. In time came adjustment to a new country and new relationships, and with this integration, lush colors burst forth in still life, portraiture and photographs. The fluidity and transparency of his late watercolors reveal a new found spontaneity and clarity which hold their own brilliance in their strength and expressive power. In expressionistic tones Gurevich explores his emotional reactions to what he sees in the world in a personal and subjective way that gives his audience a window into the complexity of his ideas and intelligence.

Two of Gurevich's commissioned sculptures, permanently exhibited in New Jersey, reveal the range of his achievement. A bust installed at the New Jersey Institute of Technology is sculpted in the classic method of modeling and carving. The seven life size bronze figures which comprise tableau entitled "Commuters" stand in Newark's Penn Station. Executed through the traditional sculpting and carving method in combination with modern construction and assemblage technique, they bear testimony to Gurevich's full measure of technical, dramatic and aesthetic sensibility.

Gurevich has been the recipient of twenty awards for his outstanding artistic contributions. A gifted teacher of art and pantomime, he has conducted more then 2000 workshops for students in America. His background as an architect enriches his teaching method which stresses the relationship between solid forms in space, perspective and triangular composition. Mood is set more in terms of arrangement than solely by the subject represented.

Grigory Gurevich is a man of superb sensibility, amiability, conviction and gentility. He stands firmly planted in two worlds: one which has been born into a classical age, and the other, the artist's realm, which sets him apart from any one period of time. Gurevich possesses the soul and integrity of character which newer rests on its laurels. The soul of the artist seeks continually to toil and produce in pursuit of unlimited possibility. And through the representation of this ideal, the artist enlivens the inner world of his viewer.
The words of this introduction do not adequately translate the images which this catalogue includes. Art works speak for themselves in language beyond words.

Dr. Demetria DeLia
Jan. 2007

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