Russian Artist Exhibit at Polasek Museum

This will be a cultural outing with a chance to experience the works of a Russian artist. The museum is situated in a botanical garden by a lake so the views and photo opportunites are wonderful!

We will meet at the Polasek museum aroun 2pm and take a tour of the exhibits and gardens. There are many scultptures there based on the mythology you may have heard as a child in the former Soviet Union.

About the Artist:
Karelian painter Vladimir Fomin returns to the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park. This special exhibition features 28 paintings in oil on canvas. He created the works after his last exhibit at the Polasek, showing his interpretations of the indigenous wildlife. His works are an often amusing reflection of what he observed while in Florida.

Fomin?s works are painted in a style that is called avant-garde lubok. Lubok is traditional Russian folk art, a style that is characterized by bright colors and simple compositions. Fomin?s works combine lubok with the experimental stylizations of the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century, along with surrealism and elements of Finno-Ugric ornament and decoration (seen in the refinement of lines and mosaic-like effects).

Vladimir Fomin was born in 1963 in the Siberian town of Tomsk. In 1989, he graduated from the Krasnoselskoe School, where he specialized in jewelry design. Between 1984 and 1992, Fomin fine-tuned his skills with the folk artists of Central Russia and studied the art of Finno-Ugric peoples of Siberia and the Russian North. Since 1992 Fomin has been living and working in Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia. Karelia is located between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea.

Fomin has had more than 20 one-man shows in Russia, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Norway.

About the Museum:
Information about the museum can be found at www.polasek.org . More exhibitions of Russian art are planning for the 2009-2010 season including "Darker Shades of Red--Russian Propaganda Art from the Cold War" and "Windows into Heaven--Russian Icons".