Retrospective exhibit of work by Hutsaliuk opens at UIA (10/24/99)

Retrospective exhibit of work by Hutsaliuk opens at UIA

NEW YORK - The noted Ukrainian American artist Liuboslav Hutsaliuk, critically acclaimed in France and the United States as a foremost painter of urban landscapes, is the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of America. The exhibit, which opened October 23, runs through November 7.

Titled "Liuboslav Hutsaliuk - Five Decades," the exhibit includes a selection of oil paintings, gouaches and watercolors featuring a wide range of the artist's work, ranging from his earliest period in France to recent works, as well as works from numerous private collections.

Throughout his 44-year career, Mr. Hutsaliuk has concentrated on expanding his lyrical expressionist interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes, especially those of Paris and New York.

The artist is perhaps best known for his bold and aggressive impasto technique, which blends with a lyric color perception, creating vibrant, yet harmonious, sun-drenched canvases - in both his landscapes and still lifes.

An artist who has divided his life between Paris and New York since 1955, Mr. Hutsaliuk has exhibited widely throughout Europe, in the United States, Canada and Japan.

Born in Lviv in 1923, Mr. Hutsaliuk studied art at The Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 1954. His first one-man show was held in Paris in 1956. Since then Mr. Hutsaliuk has had frequent one-man showings in Paris, at such galleries as Ror-Volmar (1956), Jacques Norval (1959), Angle du Faubourg (1963), Galérie Royale (1976); and Mairie du IV-ième Arrondissement (1979).

In New York solo-exhibits were held at the Boissevain (1957), Juster (1960; 1962), Hilde Gerst (1964, 1966), Ukrainian Association of Artists (1980), and the Toyamaya (1990) galleries; as well as in Milan at the Galleria Lorenzelli (1959), Galleria Romana in the Vatican (1963); in Boston at the Rolly-Michaux Gallery (1973); and the W&W (1962) and Focus (1977) galleries in Toronto.

Mr. Hutsaliuk was represented by the Toyamaya Gallery in Kobe, Japan, in 1992 and that same year a retrospective exhibit of his oils was held at the Springfield Museum of Art in Ohio.

The artist, who is a member of the Salon de L'Ecole de Paris, the Salon d'Automne, and the Salon des Indépendants and has taken part in their group exhibitions, was featured in articles in the Journal de l'Amateur d'Art, Revue Parlementaire, American Artist and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, among others.

Various reviews noted the following: "This urban landscape artist ... seems to inlay his colors into the canvas to give us cityscapes that haunt us with their new faces. He is a painter with a unique personality..."(Le Hors-Côté, 1959); "His paintings glow with light; the senses are amazed and excited by his marvelous color" (American Artist, 1969); "Hutsaliuk resuscitates for us the souls of cities. He makes us become geniunely passionate..." (Galérie Jardin des Arts, 1976); and finally, "... he wants to express the hope hidden within the shadows of reality ..." (Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1991).

The Hutsaliuk retrospective is being held at the institute, 2 E. 79th Street (at Fifth Avenue). Gallery hours: noon-6 p.m. daily (closed Mondays). Suggested donation: $5.

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