still in time | The Prints of Jacques Hnizdovsky

 still in time | The Prints of Jacques Hnizdovsky

January 25 to April 13, 2025
Heritage Galleries

Opening reception was held on Saturday, January 25, 1:00 to 4:00 PM

Hnizdovsky Art Talk: Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 PM

As a paragon of woodcut printmakers, Jacques Hnizdovsky contributed an astonishing body of inventive and compelling imagery. The artist ignited a resurgence and enthusiasm around time-honoured printmaking technique. In this solo posthumous project, we follow an astounding trajectory of one artist’s personal passage through tone and form, style and content. Jacques Hnizdovsky (born Yakiv Yakovych Hnizdovsky) was a Ukrainian-American artist, who worked in a number of mediums ranging from painting, printmaking, illustration, graphic design and sculpture. The artist was born in Ukraine in 1915—on this milestone occasion we celebrate the 110th anniversary of Hnizdovsky’s birth.

The printmaker’s curiosity and experimental poise offer gallery visitors a unique glimpse into his mercurial artistic practice and studio process. Here we can observe the versatility of Hnizdovsky’s explorations of figurative, flora and fauna motifs. Within each composition, we travel along with the artist, as he guides us through sinuous arrangements and harmonious passages.

Hnizdovsky began his artistic education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, though Germany’s invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II forced him to flee the country. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Thus, he was a classically trained artist in painting and portraiture, though his work in printmaking was entirely self-taught. Sources of great inspiration for him in the field of printmaking were the woodcuts done by Albrecht Dürer and mokuhanga or woodblock printing mastered in Japan. This retrospective culminates with several intersecting suites and bodies of work created over the course of forty years. Still in Time celebrates the vicissitudes and transience of an artist’s life-path in print media. In this astounding creative journey, we ponder with a sense of wonder.

Olexander Wlasenko

curator

Station Gallery

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