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1990s Boris Spivak Maquette for Youth Sculpture at Peter Kirk Park
Seattle, WA
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Plaster study/model for the bronze version of Youth, located at Peter Kirk Park in Kirkland, Washington (see third photo).
30" …
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Plaster study/model for the bronze version of Youth, located at Peter Kirk Park in Kirkland, Washington (see third photo).
30" tall x 30" wide
From the artist:
"Youth" students of different race, from different layers of society, from different nationalities, walking on the street together"
About the artist:
Boris immigrated to the USA in November 1980. He talked to us about it at one of the early Symposia. Not knowing English, he worked here first as a janitor, and the self-portraits that he painted at the time, show someone almost invisible. How do you start a new life? How do you communicate who you are and what you are worth? How do you balance being an artist with supporting a family in a new country?
Looking at Boris' sculptures, the immediacy of his psychological and existential processes come out to grab us. One of these sculptures is called "Sins," or "Despair." It is in roughly carved marble of a naked man clutching his head in his hands; his agony is heart-wrenching. Boris used sculptures to communicate his experiences, as well as his ideas and philosophical search (see for example "My Generation.").He did a lot of commissioned work, portraits and life size groups ("The Fathers of Issaquah"), and he tried his hand at more decorative pieces, but it is his humanism and the honesty of observation that make some of his more personal sculptures truly great art. It was coupled with an incessant devotion to Sculpture -- the skills, the methods, the processes. Brought up in art in the Russian tradition, he was adamant to his students that they should study drawing first, then clay, then stone.
He was born in the former Soviet Union, and grew up in Lvov, the cultural center of the Ukraine. After receiving a degree in mechanical engineering at the prestigious Ivan Fedorov College of Printing, he began advanced study at the Studio of Fine Arts and Graphic Design in Lvov and at the Atelier for Industrial Arts and Graphic Design in Kharkov, USSR. He was later invited to teach at the Ivan Fedorov College of Printing, where he remained while working on a PhD thesis.
Then he brought his family with him to start a new life in the United States. Though he felt invisible at first and struggled to find the recognition that he deserved, he surely made his mark as an artist.
He was a member of NWSSA for several years.
He also taught at the Frye Art Museum, The Seattle Academy of Fine Arts, (now Gage Academy of Art) and in his studio.
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- Dimensions
- 30ʺW × 12ʺD × 30ʺH
- Styles
- Contemporary
- Figurative
- Period
- 1990s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Clay
- Paint
- Plaster
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Imperfect as it is a maquette Imperfect as it is a maquette less
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