The Artist
About the Artist
Yuri Y. Yurov was born in 1961, in Voronezh, Russia. He began his formal training as an artist at the age of 12 and finished it in The Academy of Arts in Moscow, Russia. The range of techniques he uses includes oil on canvas and wood, oil over acrylic paste, graphic works on paper and many others. The artist also works in photography, sculpture and pottery.
Yuri’s work is represented in numerous public and private collections around the world.
Selected Exhibits
Solo Exhibits |
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| 2014 | ”Sketch Pad” Selected Drawings by Yuri Yurov YYY Fine Arts Studio Boonton, New Jersey |
| 2013 | ”Burned by the Light” A Photo Collages Exhibit YYY Fine Arts Studio Boonton, New Jersey |
| 2012 | ”Living Objects” A Still Life Exhibit YYY Fine Arts Studio Boonton, New Jersey |
| 2011 | ”Through the Years” A Retrospective Solo Exhibit YYY Fine Arts Studio Boonton, New Jersey |
| 2010 | Morristown’s Atrium Art Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey |
| 2010 | ”Rockaway Artists Unframed” 145 photographic portraits of Rockaway artistic community members |
| 2002 | Grant Gallery, Soho, New York |
| 2002 | Halberd Gallery, Trenton, New Jersey |
| 1993 | Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg (Brooklyn), New York |
| 1988 | Kuprin State Art Museum, Borisoglebsk, Russia |
Selected Group Exhibits |
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| 2014 | ”ARTSplash” A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2012 | ”ARTSplash” — Best of Show A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2011 | ”ARTSplash” — Best of Show A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2010 | ”Emerging Patterns” An Arts Council of the Morris Area Exhibit, Morristown, New Jersey |
| 2009 | ”ARTSplash” — Best of Show A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2009 | ”Wine and Dine” A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2009 | ”Geometric” A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2008 | ”ARTSplash” — Best of Show A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2007 | Brooklyn Waterfont Artists Coalition (BWAC), New York |
| 2007 | ”Photography: Process and Print” A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2006 | The Citicorp Tower Gallery Long Island City, New York |
| 2004 | ”Nostalgic Conceptualization: The Russian Version” Pace University, New York |
| 2004 | Art Hall of the Pacific Design Center West Hollywood, Los Angeles |
| 2004 | ”Rondure Music Club, Soho, New York |
| 2003 | ”Sparkle” A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 2002 | L'Art Pour L'Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona |
| 2002 | ”The Russians Are Here” A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 1999 | Queens Council on the Arts A Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibit, New York |
| 1996 | Art EXPO, New York, New York |
| 1995 | ”Crossing Over” an Exhibit of Contemporary Russian Artists Nabisco Gallery East Hanover, New Jersey |
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Statement
Have you ever climbed a mountain and looked from a bird’s–eye view at the landscape below? Waves ruffle a lake’s surface, but it seems to you peaceful and smooth like a mirror. Life seethes in the town at the foot of the mountain, but you see neither details nor bustle, neither motion nor people just toy–like tiny buildings of different shapes and sizes with cozy lights glowing in their tiny windows…
An old man spends his time contemplating the past. The days of his life were filled with agitation and worries, everyday problems and often vain ado, but now they are passing in a slow train in his memory, importance of some and insignificance of others is clear, faces are distinct sometimes, but sometimes faded and vague…
Civilizations of the past vanished never to return, but they left their cities behind. Sometimes half–destroyed, changed beyond recognition, they proudly stand on, tranquil and dignified in their oblivion. It is not becoming them to have their buildings restored and utilized, they are beautiful as they are and will continue existing as long as Time lets them, caressing and destroying their features as It passes…
Being distant in space is similar to being distant in time — it presents an opportunity to eliminate details and look upon the world in its uncluttered calm eternity. Time always moves with the same pace, but only epochs later one is able to perceive Its true motion. Cities in my paintings do not need concretization, association with any certain era — you see them from a far — spatial and temporal. They are part of that calm and eternal Global where Universe exists and moves in time.
To comprehend and to feel this infinite calmness of Universe being — is the ultimate task of an artist, because only in contiguity and in harmony with it can Art be born — to live in time and beyond it.
Yuri Y. Yurov