NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Museum is presenting “From Darkness to Light: The Paintings of Mikhail Turovsky,” a retrospective exhibition of works by the artist, who began his career in Soviet Ukraine. The Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno is guest curator of this exhibition, which will showcase a selection of paintings from the artist’s years in the U.S. The exhibition opened on October 27 and will be on view through March 22, 2020.
Born in 1933 to Jewish parents in Kyiv, Mr. Turovsky experienced the horrors of World War II as a child. Evacuated from Kyiv, the family suffered a grueling existence in Uzbekistan before returning to a Ukraine devastated by war. Mr. Turovsky received a solid academic art education at the Kyiv Art Institute, at a time when the 20-something postwar generation in Europe and the U.S. laid claim to rethinking worldviews and traditional artistic concepts.