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URL:https://www.uccn.org/event/dont-close-your-eyes-ukrainian-artists-resp
 ond-to-the-war/
SUMMARY:Don't Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nThe University of Massachusetts Lowell Department of Ar
 t and Design is honored to present Don’t Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Arti
 sts Respond to the War. The exhibit will be on display in the University G
 allery at 870 Broadway St. from Aug. 18 – Sept. 16. All are invited to a
  welcome back event for the Art &amp\; Design Department on Wednesday\, Se
 pt. 13 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Hanna Melnyczuk will deliver remarks in
  the University Gallery at noon. Gallery hours are Monday-Wednesday 10 a.m
 .-4 p.m.\, Thursday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.\, and Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday ho
 urs from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. will resume after Labor Day.\nJointly curated by S
 enior Adjunct faculty Hanna Melnyczuk\, a Ukrainian-American artist\, and 
 Halyna Andrusenko\, an artist from Kyiv\, the UMass Lowell iteration of th
 is traveling exhibition features the work of 27 artists from various regio
 ns of Ukraine\, created in response to the war that began Feb. 24\, 2022. 
 Works range from drawings\, paintings\, lithographs\, and a 6-minute video
 \, Protected\, in which Halyna Andrusenko echoes the wrapping of monuments
  in Kyiv by wrapping her parents in cloth.\nIn a moving statement on the e
 ffect that the war between Ukraine and Russia has made on her life and art
 istic practice\, Hanna Melnuczuk writes:\nThe week before the full-scale w
 ar in Ukraine began\, I had been working on images for a children’s book
 … As the war unfolded\, the images in my mind’s eye shifted from color
 ful representations of a child's world to troubling depictions of tanks\, 
 missiles\, refugees\, and mass graves. I began a series of drawings in rea
 ction to the war. I also came across the works of like-minded artists in U
 kraine\, responding to the war with powerful imagery. These images were be
 ing exhibited in Ukraine and parts of Europe. I had a vision of bringing t
 hem to the US\, so I struck up a partnership with Halyna Andrusenko\, an a
 rtist from Kyiv. With her help\, we sought artists whose works resonated f
 or us in terms of the images they were making in response to the horrific 
 violence and destruction that the war was bringing to a peaceful country.\
 nDon’t Close Your Eyes features a broad spectrum of powerful work in res
 ponse to the war in Ukraine. This work is a testament to the power of the 
 human spirit\, and the abilities of artists to synthesize powerful emotion
 s and responses into works that transcend boundaries of time\, geography\,
  and space. Included in this exhibit are:\nHalyna Andrusenko (co-curator)\
 , Ksenia Datsiuk\, Nastya Didenko\, Mitya Fenechkin\, Alisa Gots\, Evgen K
 limenko\, Natalia Kurnosova\, Lena Kurzel\, Inga Levi\, Ave Libertatemavea
 mor\, Anton Logov\, Rostyslav Luzhetskyy\, Hanna Melnyczuk (co-curator)\, 
 Danylo Movchan\, Anzhelika Palyvoda\, Oleksii Pavlusenko\, Oleksii Revika\
 , Vladyslav Riaboshtan\, Olesia Rybchenko\, Valeriia Rybchenko\, Andrij Ro
 ik\, Zakhar Shevchuk\, Olena Shtepura\, Karina Synytsia\, Nickita Tsoy\, I
 lya Yarovoy and Olga Zaremba.\nDue to the exigencies of shipping work from
  Ukraine\, the works of Mitya Fenechkin and Anton Logov are shown in repro
 duction only.\nMore information: www.uml.edu\n\n\n\n\n
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