Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library, 20 West St., Northampton

Reception: Saturday April 2, 2-4 PM

Alexander “Sasha” Spivak earned his MFA at the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts, Ukraine. After 24 years in New York, he relocated his art studio to western Massachusetts. Sasha works with oil paintings, watercolors, monotypes, and drawings. His unusual imagery brought him through a surrealistic period to the present series of symbolic and content-rich art. In developing his original style, he established his unique visual world of Romantic Surrealism. Sasha’s work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows in Russia, Ukraine, New York and Massachusetts. His paintings are in many private collections.

Sasha expresses dynamic thoughts in his paintings, creating a complete composition while allowing the possibility for other things to occur simultaneously. Through the desire to infuse complex kinetic processes into painting–similar to those possible in music or theater–he has evolved a system of transformations. The transformations from one shape to another express the connections between ideas and a sense of change over time.