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LOS ANGELES —  February 28, 2006

Vitaly Medvedovsky

open / Saturday March 4 – six to eight pm
close / April 8

Harvey Levine Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of paintings by Ukrainian-born,
Toronto-based artist Vitaly Medvedovsky.
Please join us in welcoming Medvedovsky at our opening reception for his United States debut.

In Medvedovsky’s paintings, one encounters a historical and visual travelogue of persons, places, and things—a biographical residue which has accumulated in and around the artist. Childhood photographs; (the former) Soviet Union cityscape; political propaganda; and more, are exacted onto canvas with a poetic patina and distinctive palette, making Medvedovsky’s work reverberate like an oral history told in his own contemporary voice.

In his own words, Medvedovsky’s paintings, "are not nostalgic…rather they are an attempt to create an imagined place that is based on a string of associations between images." This is seen best in his large-format oil paintings where, "compositions of overlapping images, and elements of transparency or over-painting…create a visual texture that corresponds to the paintings’ objective of reflecting the memory process."

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Vitaly Medvedovsky received his BFA in Drawing & Painting in 2004 from Ontario College of Art & Design.
This is Medvedovsky’s premiere exhibition in the United States.
Previously his work has been included in the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (2004 & 2005); Rogerson Fine Art, Toronto (2005);
and Engine Gallery, Toronto (2004).
Medvedovsky has been widely recognized for his achievements, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2005),
and the David L. Stevenson Scholarship (2004), among others.

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Harvey Levine Gallery is located inside a knob-making factory.
5797 Washington Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90232
[nestled between Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and the newly relocated Sixspace.]