Art by Olga Maryschuk on view in New York (11/13/05)

Art by Olga Maryschuk on view in New York

NEW YORK - Olga Maryschuk's oil pastels and unique block prints of Sedona, Arizona, will be on view at the Amos Eno Gallery from November 22 through December 17.

A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, December 3, at 4-6 p.m.

In 1989 the artist's works from the 1980s were exhibited in a yearlong traveling exhibition in Ukraine.

At that time Ms. Maryschuk was invited to spend one month at that Artists' Union country retreat in Sednev (situated about 150 kilometers south of Chornobyl). While sketching the beautiful but deeply threatened landscape she felt compelled to make a visual statement about the Chornobyl disaster and did so by using a format that resembled the design elements of Ukrainian embroidered ritual cloths (rushnyky).

She has continued to use this format in her endangered landscape series that include scenes from Arizona and Oregon.

Art critic Diana Morris has praised Ms. Maryschuk for having "an eye for stirring colors and forms" and "a deep love for the land as a living fertile entity that grows and changes ... Maryschuk invests her work with poetic strength, expressing mankind's primeval fear and respect for the ominous forces of nature that can topple buildings or cause the wheat to grow."

Ms. Maryschuk earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Cooper Union. She was a recipient of a one-year scholarship at the Kyiv State Art Institute and was the first American to be elected an honorary member of the Artists' Union of Ukraine, the country where her parents were born.

A permanent exhibit of her work can be seen at www.paintingsdirect.com.

The Amos Eno Gallery is located at 530 W. 25th St., sixth floor, New York, NY 10001; telephone, (212) 226-5342; e-mail, [email protected]; website, www.amosenogallery.org.

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