Yuri Gorbachev’s 19th Annual Exhibition
This year, Susan Byrne and Bill Byrne are celebrating the The Byrne Gallery’s 27th
anniversary. This celebration coincides with the 19th exhibition of the vivid oil and
enamel paintings of internationally acclaimed artist Yuri Gorbachev.
The exhibition will be on display from November 2nd - December 31st. There will be a special reception for the artist on Saturday, November
12th at the gallery from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
This year’s exhibition will feature Yuri’s botanical paintings with gold, silver, and copper
leaf from his Evolution Series. Shown in museum exhibitions across Europe and pictured
in the book, “The Art of Paradise”. This series will delight the viewer with the glossy
enamel and fanciful imagery of Bali and beyond. In addition, there are works from his
private collection, many of which have only been exhibited in museum venues.
This year’s exhibit will also feature paintings with a new kind of varnish and high level
of finish that gives even more richness and glazing to his work. Yuri is using a new
technique incorporating fine art resin which adds extra shine and luster to the surface.
One immediately recognizes the Faberge quality of the glossy enamel and its
reminiscence of the nineteenth century.
The Gallery will exhibit Yuri’s classic works along with new paintings from his 2021
museum world-tour.
This year a portion of the sales from the exhibition will be donated to the families of
Ukraine through The International Rescue Committee (IRC) for Ukrainian Refugees.
This organization is consistently awarded top marks by charity watchdog groups for
efficient use of contributions and overall impact.
More about Yuri Gorbachev:
Yuri maintains a studio in Odessa, a family home where he spent decades visiting with
his mother each summer after he moved to the United States. Yuri emigrated to the US
in 1991 under a special visa program and became a US citizen in 1994. He continued to
visit his mother in Odessa until her passing two years ago. Since hostilities, Yuri has not
returned to Ukraine and does not know the condition of his family home.
In 2023, Yuri plans exhibitions in the Ukraine, Estonia, Sweden, and New York.
With over 50 years of exhibitions worldwide, Yuri Gorbachev has had more than 200
solo exhibitions. His paintings have been exhibited on the continents of North America,
South America, Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa. More than two billion people have
seen his magnificent artwork. He has even been featured in magazines and newspapers
like Elle, GQ, and the New York Times. Many of these carried his famous
advertisements for Stolichnaya Vodka.
In addition, Yuri’s work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums
around the world, including the Louvre Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art,
the State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg and the State Hermitage Museum. His
paintings hung at The White House and have been on exhibit at the United Nations.
Numerous important private collections throughout the world include his paintings and
sculpture.
He says his favorite “solo show” is at the Byrne Gallery.
Many local collectors may know that at the age of twenty-seven Yuri Gorbachev became
a member of the prestigious Art Union of the former USSR. Since then, he has
established himself as one of Russia’s most distinguished modern painters before he
moved to New York in 1991. Yuri has been a proud and devoted US resident since 1991.
Inspired by the brilliant, jeweled colors of Byzantine art, the works of Faberge, and
Russia’s Icon heritage, artist Yuri Gorbachev creates colorful, richly-textured canvases in
oil and gold leaf. His personally joyful and meditative artistic world combines memories
of his Russian boyhood and the deep tradition of Russian Orthodox Icon painting. His art
blends a radiant kaleidoscope of folk celebrations, street fairs, circuses, fairy tales,
animals, snowy winter landscapes, and images of the Romanov dynasty.
Since 2011, Yuri’s whimsical paintings have illustrated both Absolut and Stolichnaya
Vodka advertisements appearing in hundreds of magazines around the world. In 2010,
the St. Petersburg Museum of Urban Art & Sculpture hosted a major exhibition of his
work. Tens of thousands of Russians, especially young people, attended the exhibit and
broke all attendance records for the museum. In 2011, The State Russian Museum, the
most important museum of Russian art worldwide, accepted Gorbachev's major oil
painting Tsar Nicholas and his Family into their Permanent Collection. Gorbachev's
museum tour continued through 2015, with the National Gallery of Fine Art Plovdiv,
Bulgaria; The Kumu Art Museum of Estonia and The Literature Museum of Odessa,
Ukraine. Future exhibitions are scheduled for Major Museums in Kiev, Moscow, St.
Petersburg and other European cities, including Helsinki and Monaco.
In 2015, The National Gallery of Armenia obtained a painting from Yuri Gorbachev for
their permanent collection. The Gallery houses one of the most prestigious Russian art
collections in the world and includes such artists as Chagall, Malevich, Kandinsky, and
Filonov. The Gallery selected a work entitled Adam and Eve for their permanent
collection. The work was their first acquisition of Russian art in over ten years.