Lucien Dulfan (russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 14 February 1942,
Frunze,
Kyrgyz SSR
The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR; ky, Кыргыз Советтик Социалисттик Республикасы, Kyrgyz Sovettik Sotsialisttik Respublikasy, ky, Кыргыз ССР, Kyrgyz SSR, russian: Киргизск ...
) is a Soviet-born conceptualist artist, resident in the United States since 1990. During his career in the
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
, he was considered a
Nonconformist artist.
Biography
Lucien Dulfan was born in 1942 in
Bishkek (then called Frunze, capital of
Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic) during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
, where his family was evacuated. The family returned to
Odessa in 1946. After finishing his school he was accepted to the
Grekov Odessa Art school
The Grekov Odesa Art School ( ua, Одеське художнє училище імені Митрофана Грекова; abbreviated ОХУ) is a secondary education institution in Odesa, Ukraine. It is the oldest arts school in the country.
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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".
Lucien Dulfan emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in
New York City
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. He has his studio at
Mana Contemporary
Mana Contemporary is a cultural center in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States with affiliated centers in Chicago and Miami.
History and Founder
Opened in May 2011, the center was founded by moving company mogul Moishe Mana. Shai Baitel ...
in
Jersey City.
Work
According to StrangeTime Art, Dulfan's paintings "reflect the boundless energy, originality, and passion of the artist’s own personality." Lucien Dulfan also works with objects and installation art and creates so called "wooden paintings".
''“My art is dramatic, bold and uncompromising: I paint the very interesting human story through the filters of my dreams and subconscious.”'' — Lucien Dulfan
Exhibitions
* 2014 — Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth (Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA)
*2012 — Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair (New York, USA)
*2011 — Space. Mythogony (Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine)
*1989 — Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR
Selected collections
Dulfan's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Odessa Modern Art and the Nancy Dodge Collection at
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in
New Brunswick
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.,
and
Tretyakov gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...
in Moscow, Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey
Publications
*1994 — Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"
*1992 — Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective
References
External links
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Artodessa.com galleryCenter For Book Arts siteEncyclopedia of modern Ukraineinterview with Dulfan (in Russian)Lucien Dulfan’s “Space. Mythogony”
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1942 births
Living people
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
Modern painters
Odesa Jews
People from Bishkek
Russian male artists
Artists from Odesa
Jewish American artists
21st-century American Jews
20th-century American male artists