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Lidija Bodnar-Balahutrak = Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak [Skrizhaly Dukhu - Testimonies of Spirit]

Marychevskyy, Mykola (Editor)

Kyiv: Sofija-A, 2005. Hardcover. Color-illustrated, turquoise boards with white/grey lettering on spine. 111 pp. full of color and bw images. VG. Item #163025
ISBN: 9789668684173

Text in Ukrainian/English. Catalogue of works of Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak from the series "Testimonies of spirit : the creative work of Ukrainian artists outside Ukraine." Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak was born in Cleveland, Ohio, completed her undergraduate art studies at Kent State University, and, in 1977, received her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. That year she moved to Houston with her husband Michael, where she continues to live and work. In 1985 Bodnar-Balahutrak was awarded a grant to participate in an international art symposium in La Napoule, France, the first of several artist invitations and residencies in Europe. In spring 1991, an IREX grant enabled her to travel to Ukraine, her parents’ ancestral homeland, for the first time. She was a guest lecturer at the L’viv Academy of Art. In 1993, she participated in a two-month international artists’ symposium held in Ukraine, and received a Creative Artist Program Award in Visual Art from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston for her artwork that resulted from that residency. Two years later she was a visiting artist at the Art Academy of Kyiv, and her 1996 trip included a tour of the Chornobyl Zone, site of the 1986 nuclear plant explosion. In 2006, commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the Chornobyl cataclysm, her work was exhibited in a solo show, titled “Chornobyl”, at the Art Gallery of the University of Houston/Clear Lake. In 2010-11, selected works from her ongoing series “Hide and Seek” have been shown in solo exhibitions at Nau-Haus Art Space and the College of the Mainland Art Gallery, and at the Arkansas Arts Center and the Art Car Museum. The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts featured her work in a 2012 solo show titled “Thresholds”. The artist has participated in several national and international exhibitions and her work can be found in museum and private collections. Her current mixed media paintings and drawings continue to explore collage, text, and figuration. A monograph focusing on her art from 1979-2001 was published in 2005. Since 1977, she has taught painting and drawing at The University of Houston at Clear Lake and HSPVA, and is currently on the faculty of the Glassell School of Art, MFAH.

OCLC: 855545558

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