This exhibition showcases sculptures from the Museum’s collection, focusing mainly on works in bronze and metal. The featured Ukrainian diaspora artists — from the renowned Alexander Archipenko to the lesser-known Serhii Lytvynenko — represent a wide variety of styles and techniques. Two Chicago-based artists, Mychajlo Urban and Konstantin Milonadis, offer abstract works in metal, while Gregor Kruk’s bronze sculptures find inspiration in themes rooted in the Ukrainian village way of life. Peter Kapschutschenko’s rugged sculptures feature Ukrainian motifs as well, but they also excel at capturing the essence of children’s mystique. Mykhailo Chereshnovsky, known for his monuments of the poet Lesia Ukrainka in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Toronto, Canada, and Serhii Lytvynenko are represented here by their sculptural portraits of women. Except for Archipenko’s Torso in Space, these sculptures are rarely exhibited, and some of them — those recently acquired — are being shown for the first time.
