Lucien Dulfan

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Lucien Dulfan
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Born Lucien Veniaminovich Dulfan (Дульфан, Люсьен Вениаминович)
14 February 1942
Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR
Nationality USA
Education Odessa State Art Academy, Odessa, Ukraine
Known for Painting
Notable work Kiss, Space, "S.O.S", "Mehndi Design"
Movement Dulfanism; abstract / figurative art
Awards First prize (painting, 1975)
USSR Ministry of Culture

Lucien Dulfan, (Russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 1942, in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR) is an Soviet-born conceptualist artist resident in the United States since 1990.[1] During his career in the USSR, he was considered a Nonconformist artist.

Dulfan was born in 1942, and barely escaped the Odessa massacre during the German and Romanian occupation of Odessa, Ukraine. he lived in Odessa from 1946 until he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1990. settling in Manhattan, New York. He works in his art studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Dulfan graduated from the Odessa State Art Academy (1963). He became a member of the Union of Soviet Artists in 1973. He has participated in 141 exhibitions, including 111 international shows and 40 solo exhibitions worldwide.

Special recognition and awards

The 1975 prize awarded by the USSR Ministry of Culture and the Union of Soviet Artists is considered the most prestigious recognition from that body.

In 2007 Dulfan received an NoMAA Grant Program Award, for the production of My Family, a series of large-scale paintings exploring "pre-creational space" - space without horizons where true freedom is found in falling, the future sends messages to the present, and the dead return to life without God's participation.

Letter of thanks from the chief Rabby of Russia for participation in the exhibition dedicated to the 100 years of Jewish contribution into the Russian art "Jewish artists of Russia, 1888-1988".

Exhibitions

  • Kyrgyz State Museum, Kyrgyz Republic (1998)
  • Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton. N.Y. (1997)
  • Belenky Gallery, Soho, New York City (1997)
  • Gorky Gallery, Madison Ave, New York City (1995–96)
  • Moscow Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (1990)
  • International Images Ltd., Sewickley, PA (1989)
  • Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine (1989)
  • International Festival of Cinematography: "Golden Duck", USSR (1988)
  • Municipal Gallery, Genoa, Italy (1988)
  • Union of Soviet Artists' Exhibition Hall, Moscow, USSR (1988)
  • Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine (1987)
  • Museum of Art, Ochakov, USSR (1984)
  • Union of Soviet Artists' Exhibition Hall, Odessa, Ukraine (1977).

Publications

  • "World's End: The Pre-millennium Tension of Russian Artist Lucien Dulfan", Spin. February 1997
  • "Filling the Void", George J. Robinson, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, Dec. 1996, New York City
  • "I am my own Theatre", Turchin, V., Art (Iskusstvo), Dec. 1992, Moscow
  • "Imagination and Reality in the Works of Lucien Dulfan", Turchin, V., Ibid., Jan. 1992, Moscow
  • Gradient Magazine [2]

Selected collections

  • Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutger's University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Ministry of Culture, Moscow, Russia
  • Museum of Art, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland
  • Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland
  • Odessa State Museum of Art, Ukraine
  • Museum of Art, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
  • Museum of Art, Poti, Republic of Georgia
  • Kyrgyz State Museum of Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
  • National Museum, Voronezh, Russia
  • Kharkov Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
  • Ochakov Art Museum, Ukraine
  • Odessa Municipal Museum of the Private Collections of A.V.Bleshunov, Ukraine
  • Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art
  • Kostakis Collection, Greece

Sarah Kreitman Private Collection, Stamford, Connecticut

  • Bob Guccione Jr., New York City
  • Renaldo Rotto Collection, Genoa, Italy
  • Ronald Parker Collection, US
  • Elena Kornetchuck Private Collection, Pennsylvania, US
  • Podolsky Art Gallery, New York City, N.Y. [www.podolskyart.com]
  • Patricia Sutherland Private Collection, New York City, N.Y.
  • Hilary & James Benard Private Collection, New York City, N.Y.
  • Dr.Waleed Ahmad Al-Busairi, Private Collection, Kuwait
  • Maxim Shostakovich, Conductor and Pianist, Private Collection
  • Mikhail Filimonov, Alexandra Global Investment Fund, Private Collection
  • George Robinson, Founder of the Nurture Art Foundation, Private Collection
  • Andrey Voznesensky, Russian Poet, Private Collection
  • Mikhail Ulyanov, Russian Actor, Private Collection
  • Sergey Yursky, Russian Actor, Director, Writer, Private Collection
  • Leonide Bazhanov, Art Director of the State Center For Modern Art of Russia, Moscow, Russia
  • Gallina Nechitaylo, Academician, Advisor on science of President of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Some paintings

  • Milky Way
    mixed media, 2008

  • Lucien Dulfan windows from the LDwindows.jpg

    Windows
    mixed media, 1994

  • Lucien Dulfan Windows.jpg

    Windows
    mixed media 1992

References

  1. ↑ [1] Art London

External links

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