Lucien Dulfan

Lucien Dulfan
Born
Lucien Veniaminovich Dulfan

(1942-02-14) 14 February 1942 (age 82)
Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR
NationalityAmerican
EducationGrekov Odessa Art school
Known forPainting
MovementDulfanism
SpouseDinah Leonidovna Dulfan
AwardsFirst 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

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]

Work

Lucien Dulfan works with objects and installation art and creates so called "wooden paintings".[6][7]

Exhibitions

  • 2014 — Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth (Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA)[8][9][10]
  • 2012 — Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair (New York, USA)[11]
  • 2011 — Space. Mythogony (Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine)[12]
  • 1989 — Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR[13]

Selected collections

Dulfan's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Odessa Modern Art[14] and the Nancy Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.,[9][15] and Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey [16]

Publications

  • 1994 — Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"[17]
  • 1992 — Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective[18]

References

  1. ^ "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Hall 4. The Legend of the Odessa Underground Valentin Khrushch and Stanislav Sychev". msio.com.ua.
  4. ^ "Евгений Голубовский Из истории одесского авангарда: "ЗАБОРНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА"". msio.com.ua.
  5. ^ Rozhon, Tracie (1997-03-30). "Starting a New Life Overlooking the Hudson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  6. ^ "STRANGE TIME. Independent international online exhibition". Strange Time. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  7. ^ "Lucien Dulfan Parker and Parker Art". ParkerandParkerArt. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  8. ^ "В крупнейшем музее США открылась выставка одесских советских нонконформистов". www.segodnya.ua. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Bringing Art from Odessa to Light | ASEEES". www.aseees.org.
  10. ^ "Художники Одессы в Нью-Джерси: ностальгия в контексте трагедии". ГОЛОС АМЕРИКИ. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  11. ^ "The Fountain Art Fair 2012 or 'Street Art' with a Decorative Flair? | NYABlog | New York Art Beat". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  12. ^ "Lucien Dulfan's "Space. Mythogony" | The Day newspaper". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  13. ^ "Lucien Dulfan 03 December 2019 — GO-OD — mobile application Afisha Odessa". go-od.in.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  14. ^ "Dulphan Lucien". msio.com.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  15. ^ "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
  16. ^ "Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey".
  17. ^ "Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  18. ^ "Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.