Lucien Dulfan
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Lucien Dulfan | |
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| Born | Lucien Veniaminovich Dulfan 14 February 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Grekov Odessa Art school |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Dulfanism |
| Spouse | Dinah Leonidovna Dulfan |
| Awards | First prize (painting, 1975) USSR Ministry of Culture |
Lucien Dulfan (Russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 14 February 1942, Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR) is a Soviet-born conceptualist artist, resident in the United States since 1990. During his career in the USSR, he was considered a Nonconformist artist.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Lucien Dulfan was born in 1942 in Bishkek (then called Frunze, capital of Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic) during World War II, where his family was evacuated.[3] The family returned to Odessa in 1946. After finishing his school he was accepted to the Grekov Odessa Art school from which he graduated in 1963. He became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR in 1973, while working as a graphic artist for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Iskra".[4] Lucien Dulfan emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in New York City.[5] He has his studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.[6]
Work
[edit]According to StrangeTime Art, Dulfan's paintings "reflect the boundless energy, originality, and passion of the artist’s own personality."[7][8] Lucien Dulfan also works with objects and installation art and creates so called "wooden paintings".[9]
“My art is dramatic, bold and uncompromising: I paint the very interesting human story through the filters of my dreams and subconscious.” — Lucien Dulfan[10]
Exhibitions
[edit]- 2014 — Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth (Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA)[11][12][13]
- 2012 — Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair (New York, USA)[14]
- 2011 — Space. Mythogony (Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine)[15]
- 1989 — Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR[16]
Selected collections
[edit]Dulfan's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Odessa Modern Art[17] and the Nancy Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.,[12][18] and Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey [19]
Publications
[edit]- 1994 — Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"[20]
- 1992 — Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective[21]
References
[edit]- ^ "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
- ^ "The Jewish theme in the works of Odessa artists of the XIX-XXI centuries: from Leonid Pasternak to Aleksandr Roitburd". ART Ukraine. 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Hall 4. The Legend of the Odessa Underground Valentin Khrushch and Stanislav Sychev". msio.com.ua.
- ^ "Евгений Голубовский Из истории одесского авангарда: "ЗАБОРНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА"". msio.com.ua.
- ^ Rozhon, Tracie (1997-03-30). "Starting a New Life Overlooking the Hudson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- ^ "Lucien Dulfan: Reincarnation Painter". Dumbo Direct. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017.
- ^ "Lucien Dulfan". Strange Time. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Lucien Dulfan 03 December 2019 — GO-OD — mobile application Afisha Odessa". go-od.in.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "STRANGE TIME. Independent international online exhibition". Strange Time. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Lucien Dulfan Parker and Parker Art". ParkerandParkerArt. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "В крупнейшем музее США открылась выставка одесских советских нонконформистов". www.segodnya.ua. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
- ^ a b "Bringing Art from Odessa to Light | ASEEES". www.aseees.org.
- ^ "Художники Одессы в Нью-Джерси: ностальгия в контексте трагедии". ГОЛОС АМЕРИКИ. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
- ^ "The Fountain Art Fair 2012 or 'Street Art' with a Decorative Flair? | NYABlog | New York Art Beat". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
- ^ "Lucien Dulfan's "Space. Mythogony" | The Day newspaper". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
- ^ "Lucien Dulfan 03 December 2019 — GO-OD — mobile application Afisha Odessa". go-od.in.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
- ^ "Dulphan Lucien". msio.com.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
- ^ "Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey".
- ^ "Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
