Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Zorya Fine Art
38 East Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830

What happened to Adam and Eve after they got to know one another and before God appeared before them and banished them from Paradise? What was the aftermath of the first sexual revolution in the history of humankind?

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern at Zorya Fine Art

After the Fall, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in

Artist statement
I am a scholartist, a strange specie, half-a-scholar and half-an-artist. I inhabit a History Department office at Northwestern University where I place a canvas against my bookshelves and produce my paintings which are called scholart. This art is inspired by my interest in East European literature, history, and culture and is generated by my research in that field. My scholart painting is a fusion, a juxtaposition, and a synthesis. It creates an image that grows from intuition and results in a paradoxical vision that defies scholarship. What I cannot achieve in my scholarship, I seek to accomplish in my art.

Zorya Fine Art cooperates with the Zorya, Inc., Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing and inspiring awareness of the richness of Ukrainian history, culture, art and the sciences.