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ROBERT KIDD GALLERY
Presents

“IGOR ZAYTSEV”

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6 -2021
FROM 6-9 PM

COME MEET THE ARTIST

Igor Zaytsev was born in the family of the artists in 1958 in Ukraine. In 1977 he received a Bachelor’s Degree of Art from Lugansk College of Art, Ukraine. After that he continued his education in the National Academy of Art in Kiev where he received Master of Fine Arts in 1983. Igor started his career as an artist at the age of 20 when he participated in the National Art competition show in Kiev, 1979.

Since 1990th Zaytsev has participated in international shows including the United Nations and Lincoln Center in New York City, Geneva, Switzerland and Moscow, Russia. His work is on permanent exposition at the National Museum of Catholic Art and History, NY, USA, and Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Modern Art, Ukraine. In the United States his art work is presented in private collections of Mr. Paxson H. Offield, Mr. Tony Blilecky, Mr. J. Dutkewych and Mr. Igor Roussanoff. Since 2001 Igor lives in the United States and continues his work as an artist.

We are pleased to have a new display by Igor Zaytsev a master of Contemporary Abstraction. The display will be on until August 10 2020 . Feel free to come over and admire this amazing collection.

The artwork of Igor Zaytsev is based on expression of the abstract – things that hover on the edge of reality and fantasy. His viewers are challenged to define whether the paintings they are viewing are of something realistic, something abstract or both. Zaytsev wants his viewers to feel the vibrancy of the colors and interpret the forms according to their own experiences, dreams, thoughts and emotions. As such, there is no incorrect interpretation of his paintings – they have different meanings to different people.

Zaytsev, born in 1958 in Ukraine, is a classically trained artist who received his Bachelor Degree in Art at the age of 19 from the Lugansk College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from the National Academy of Art in Kiev in 1983. As a young man, he was among the first of the Ukrainian artists who defied the Soviet-imposed mandate for artistic realism and explored the frontiers of surrealist and abstract art. Even in the U.S. which he has called home since 2001, Zaytsev continues to push the boundaries of painting through expressive and experimental, yet contained forms. He draws upon the Flemish technique of chiaroscuro to use shadow and light to communicate depth while resisting the classical impetus to clearly define forms.