NYAB Event - Zarvin Swerbilov “Abstract Acrylic Paintings”

Zarvin Swerbilov “Abstract Acrylic Paintings”

Noho Gallery / M55

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Before attending Cooper Union,. I had studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League.. I then went on to receive a BA in Art History from Queens College.

The one year MFA program in 1955-56 at Columbia University in painting consisted of two parts. The first had as its thrust a very short survey, in paintings, of three stylistic periods of one’s choosing, of a particular artist of that period. I made paintings in egg tempera emulating a style of Duccio; an oil still life in the style of Chardin; and an oil portrait ala Goya. The second part was to make ten paintings and write a thesis that related to the paintings.

And, like so many artists I ended up teaching, making sculpture and painting-abstractly.
ABOUT THE WORK
“… For Zarvin Swerbilov it all begins and ends with the freedom of the gesture,frozen in motion and refined to its immutable essence.”

“..Swerbilov, however, paints as though the historical progress of high art had never been impeded and that makes his work both enormously appealing and vastly hopeful.”

“.. and that is only fitting for a painter as eminently eloquent in the universal language of pure form and color as Zarvin Swerbilov happens to be…’