Jarema Novorozhkin's exhibition "My Aquarium" on view in Chicago

by Serge Mykhalyuk

CHICAGO - Jarema Novorozhkin, a talented and expressive young Ukrainian painter who emigrated to Chicago and currently works in "The Windy City," will show his work at the exhibition "My Aquarium," a blend of mystical symbolism and reality on March 3-24.

Mr. Novorozhkin is a young man who does not allow empty emotions and sensations to guide him in achieving ultimate inspiration for his works. On the contrary, the aquarium, a seemingly limited environment, has become a source of transcendence, a self-contained and yet immense universe.

Even though it may seem that he is profoundly obsessed with fish and cats, his reality is much more complicated and multidimensional. His works surpass time and place in the sense that they trace their origins to the first human encounters with fish and cats.

Mr. Novorozhkin is a native of Lviv. He studied at the Lviv Art Academy in 1995-2001 and moved to Chicago in 2002. His oil paintings have been exhibited in Ukraine, France and Chicago. They are in private collections there and in Canada.

In addition to his "Chats et Poissons" series on exhibit at the Ukrainian National Museum, Mr. Novorozhkin's restoration work may be seen in St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Church at Cortez and Oakley streets in Chicago.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, March 5, 2006, No. 10, Vol. LXXIV

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