Lucien Dulfan

Lucien Dulfan (Russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 14 February 1942, Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR) is a Soviet-born conceptualist artist, resident in the United States since 1990. During his career in the USSR, he was considered a Nonconformist artist.[1][2]

Lucien Dulfan
Born
Lucien Veniaminovich Dulfan

(1942-02-14) 14 February 1942
Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR
NationalityAmerican
EducationGrekov Odessa Art school
Known forPainting
MovementDulfanism
SpouseDinah Leonidovna Dulfan
AwardsFirst prize (painting, 1975)
USSR Ministry of Culture

Biography

Lucien Dulfan was born in 1942 in Bishkek (then called Frunze, capital of Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic) during World War II, where his family was evacuated.[3] The family returned to Odessa in 1946. After finishing his school he was accepted to the Grekov Odessa Art school from which he graduated in 1963. He became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR in 1973, while working as a graphic artist for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Iskra".[4] Lucien Dulfan emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in New York City.[5] He has his studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.[6]

Work

According to StrangeTime Art, Dulfan's paintings "reflect the boundless energy, originality, and passion of the artist’s own personality."[7][8] Lucien Dulfan also works with objects and installation art and creates so called "wooden paintings".[9]

“My art is dramatic, bold and uncompromising: I paint the very interesting human story through the filters of my dreams and subconscious.” — Lucien Dulfan[10]

Exhibitions
  • 2014 — Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth (Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA)[11][12][13]
  • 2012 — Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair (New York, USA)[14]
  • 2011 — Space. Mythogony (Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine)[15]
  • 1989 — Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR[16]

Selected collections

Dulfan's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Odessa Modern Art[17] and the Nancy Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.,[12][18] and Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey [19]

Publications
  • 1994 — Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"[20]
  • 1992 — Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective[21]

References
  1. "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
  2. "The Jewish theme in the works of Odessa artists of the XIX-XXI centuries: from Leonid Pasternak to Aleksandr Roitburd". ART Ukraine.
  3. "Hall 4. The Legend of the Odessa Underground Valentin Khrushch and Stanislav Sychev". msio.com.ua.
  4. "Евгений Голубовский Из истории одесского авангарда: "ЗАБОРНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА"". msio.com.ua.
  5. Rozhon, Tracie (1997-03-30). "Starting a New Life Overlooking the Hudson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  6. "Lucien Dulfan: Reincarnation Painter". Dumbo Direct. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017.
  7. "Lucien Dulfan". Strange Time. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  8. "Lucien Dulfan 03 December 2019 — GO-OD — mobile application Afisha Odessa". go-od.in.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  9. "STRANGE TIME. Independent international online exhibition". Strange Time. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  10. "Lucien Dulfan Parker and Parker Art". ParkerandParkerArt. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  11. "В крупнейшем музее США открылась выставка одесских советских нонконформистов". www.segodnya.ua. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  12. "Bringing Art from Odessa to Light | ASEEES". www.aseees.org.
  13. "Художники Одессы в Нью-Джерси: ностальгия в контексте трагедии". ГОЛОС АМЕРИКИ. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  14. "The Fountain Art Fair 2012 or 'Street Art' with a Decorative Flair? | NYABlog | New York Art Beat". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  15. "Lucien Dulfan's "Space. Mythogony" | The Day newspaper". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  16. "Lucien Dulfan 03 December 2019 — GO-OD — mobile application Afisha Odessa". go-od.in.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  17. "Dulphan Lucien". msio.com.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  18. "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
  19. "Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey".
  20. "Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  21. "Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
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