Andrey Bogoslowsky

Jersey City , NJ, United States

About Andrey Bogoslowsky

Painted first oil painting at age 13. Took intensive classes in figure drawing and painting from Tad Pitrovski and Wydorski and exhibited throughout high school. Got accepted to Academy of Visual Arts in Warsaw, to the studio of Prof. Rajmund Ziemski- student of Cybis who was a student of Otto Mueller. I studied drawing with Ciecierski and R. Czapla 1985 to 1987. I studied arts in Plovdiv Academy of Arts, in Bulgaria in 1987. Academia de Bellas Artes Madrid, Immigrated to New York.

Education:

My art education began at age 13, when I stretched my own first canvas and painted a very realistic portrait. For five years I received intense corrections from T.Piotrovski (who still has a private school for young artists) and exhibited my canvases on the hallways at my high school in Olsztyn(Prussia)Poland, where I received stipend to buy paints.

My summer time was spent on plain airs, painting with older artists. I exhibited at many group shows. From 1984 to 1986 I was a student at Academy of Visual arts Warsaw at the studio of R. Ziemski- student of Cybis. I studied drawing from Ciecierski, R. Czapla and Stefan Gierowski. From 1986 to 1988 I enjoyed scholarships in the Academies of Fine Arts in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Budapest (Hungary), and Madrid (Spain). Nonetheless, I consider myself nonconformist and self taught.
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My friends often ask me what are my favorite paintings.?
Do I have any from my own repertoire ?
I do.
Most of them are smaller than my biggest works, but one out of ten would be a giant.
What is so special about these works: I don't have a very distinct recollections of how I created then. All I remember is when I started working on it and approximate time I stopped. January 2002, for instance. I also remember these paintings didn't happen in one afternoon but were improved over a period of months or even years. And every improvement was so gentle that the original composition is still visible there and still might be the key force to hold the harmony in this one work.
These paintings also have another characteristic ! They can't be done again. It's impossible. Pfisiclly impossible. The leaks, the splashes of the brush strokes , the shadows from the textures, or the under paintings . All the tricks- I call them tricks - are so masterly applied they feel natural, as if the wind blow some bamboo branches and painted this. It is just beyond human ability to do it again. I often keep them in my bedroom, and often hang them up side down and after few weeks hang them on the left side then on the right side. I am trying to decipher the enigma in this work that makes it so special to me. And if the magic didn't disappear after couple of years, I call them my "special paintings"
And each of them is some sort of revelation, a day I learned something new, or new way of doing the old thing! There is the spirit of discovery, the very first second of "Aha" moment,
These works are very dear to me.

Events:

My show at Watergate Art Galley at the Watergate Building in Washington DC will represent my landscapes, starting January 2017. Also my solo show will be announced by September 2016 at Ellena Ab Gallery in Red Hook in Brooklyn. It is a three story building art gallery and will exhibit more than 40 of my large and medium size works starting November 2016. Currently I am painting fishes , flowers and drip abstract paintings in new colors. Everything you have seen so far of mine will be all new. New colors, deeper, more complex and yet simple. If you wish to be invited to my opening art receptions, please follow me here on Saatchiart.com and I will be glad to send you an invitation. Or you can follow me on Facebook at my professional art page with my name and I will be sending invitations there as well.. Andrey Bogoslowsky...........12-2015
Currently I am continuing to develop my see in a dark technology and my flash effect on a series of 30 big canvases in my studio.The subjects are diverse; from abstract. flowers. cosmology and figures.
6-2015;;; I am painting on play wood covered with concrete. The project is sponsored by a local concrete company. The owner of the company had purchased many paintings from me in the past. Now he has an idea to create back yard art- paintings that will be very durable in out doors environment. I am also working in copper- it is my new idea of "ancient page from the ancient, lost book of wisdom". The designs resemble hieroglyphs, star maps and math formulas. I am continuing my art-book project , I am sketching and writing in several sketch books at the same time. But I never repeat myself. I am participating in www.SketchBookProject.com. I am also continuing my installation idea- " bamboo lost library of ancient far south east wisdom"- dedicated to sailors who crossed Pacific 2000 years ago and populated Easter Islands. I am continuing to develop more elaborate boxes, all decorated with ancient writings and math formulas and star maps.
Significant events in my art life include: in 2001 I had Eleven solo exhibits in New York City. Solo exhibit in Palm Beach Gardens City Hall, February 2002. Escada published my signed lithographs (2000 prints, floral) in February 2002. In 2005, one of my large erotic figure paintings was featured in the Jim Jarmusch film, "Broken Flowers." Annual Russian Tea Parties in my home in Georgetown bring art collectors and enthusiasts, and are a great way to bring my art to the public. My paintings can be found in most sophisticated homes around the country.

Andrey Bogoslowsky