A Celebration of Life - Retrospective of Anatole Kolomayets

Nov. 24, 2015 - PRLog -- Anatole Kolomayets (1927-2014), an artist well established in Chicago and within the
international community, a selection of his work will be featured in “A Celebration of Life - Retrospective” which opens December 4, 2015 at 7pm at the Ukrainian National Museum.  Viewers will have an opportunity to see the complex, influential, and deeply moving body of this artists life work shown in this exhibit. Kolomayets’s style blends both his Ukrainian heritage and his artistic training in Europe. You are invited into the amazing world of color that he created. Exhibit continues through December 27,2015.
   Anatole Kolomayets was born in Ukraine in 1927. He received his training at St. Luke’s Institute (1948 - 1952) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1952 - 1953), both in Leige, Belgium. Since coming to the United States in 1953, he resided in Chicago, Illinois. More than four hundred of the artist’s works are in numerous private collections and galleries in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, England, France, the United States, Canada and Ukraine. The artist has had one-man exhibits in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and Denver. Kolomayets is also one of the co-founders of the Ukrainian Artist’s Group “Monolith” of Chicago in 1954. His works have been reviewed in various magazines and journals, among them “Suchasnist” and “Ukraina”. Named “Honored Artist of Ukraine” in 2007 by President Victor Yushchenko, Kolomayets is planning a retrospective exhibit of his works in Kyiv in the future.

   The Ukrainian National Museum is located in the heart of the Ukrainian Village, at 2249 West Superior Street in Chicago. Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 11 am to 4 pm Admission: Adults $5.00, Children under 12 - Free.
Free Parking is available beside the Museum. For driving instructions, visit the Museum's website at www.ukrainiannationalmuseum.org. For additional information, e-mail
info@UkrainianNationalMuseum.org or call (312) 421-8020.
Travel Instructions:
From I-90/94 West on Division to Oakley, then south on Oakley to Superior.
From I-290  North on Western to Chicago, East on Chicago to Oakley, then South on Oakley to Superior.
From downtown (Michigan & Chicago) #66 Chicago Ave bus West to Oakley, then South on Oakley to Superior