Ukrainian art at the Mead Art Museum

“The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search of Modernity and Identity” is set to open on May 24 at the Mead Art Museum. The exhibition examines the global and national legacies of artists Archipenko, Bohomazov, and Yermilov. While Archipenko has long been a figurehead for international Modernism, renewed interest in the work of Yermilov and Boromazov has surged in recent decades.

The collection showcases the work of three leading modern artists from Ukraine who produced work during an astonishing period of the country’s cultural renaissance in the early twentieth century.
The strikingly different fates of the three artists demonstrate the tectonic shifts and upheavals that their country underwent in the first half of the 20th century. Their work – connected with Cubism, Futurism, Abstractionism, and Constructivism – reflects the stylistic diversity of the avant-garde landscape in Ukraine at that time.