Jurij Solovij

Jurij Solovij was born on 6 January 1921 in Staryi Sambir (now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).^[2]

He graduated from the art and industrial school in Lviv (1944). Later he lived in Germany and Rutherford, New Jersey in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

He has participated in more than 20 exhibitions, including collective shows of Ukrainian artists in Munich (1947, Bavarian National Museum; 1971, Galerie Günther Franke), exhibitions at the Nuremberg Museum (1950), as well as vernissages at the Universities of Chicago (1960) and New York (1972) and galleries in Toronto and New York City.^{[citation needed]}

Solovij began his career under the influence of neocubism, and in the 1950s and 1960s his works were marked by the features of the New York Expressionist school. His works often feature religious motifs. Solovij also actively experimented with unconventional materials in sculpture and painting, using plastic and feathers.^{[citation needed]}

He exhibited his paintings in Munich (Germany), Trenton, Chicago, and Toronto (Canada). He experimented with the material and developed Christian themes. In 2007, during the opening of the Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, 42 paintings and graphic works by Jurij Solovij were presented.^[1]

He died on 23 April 2007 in Rutherford, New Jersey.^[2]

Publications, essays:

• Pro rechi bilshi nizh zori: zbirka statei (1978)
• Bahato tem // Suchasnist. 1962. Part 7.
• Vidvidyny "Na hori" // Suchasnist. 1962. Part 12. P. 71-97.

Author of paintings in miniature and serial forms, including:

• "Materynstvo" (1947)
• "Astralne" (1948)
• "Rozpiattia" (1950, 1969)
• Cycles "Materynstvo", "Buttia", "Smert"^[2]
• Series "1000 holiv" (1971)

Individual works are preserved in the collections of the Canadian-Ukrainian Art Foundation in Toronto (Canada), the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago (USA), and others.^[2]