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07:03 watercolor, 100% rag paper 50” x 60” |
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07:02 watercolor, 100% rag paper 22” x 30” |
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06:17 watercolor, 100% rag paper 45" x 46" |
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My work is in the vernacular abstract not consciously related to any art movement, mainstream or otherwise. The water based pigment, no binders, on 100% rag handmade paper are materials with a magic that keeps my interest alive and meaningful in this fluid medium of watercolor. I want to paint and let my work articulate its own meaning. "...Osyczka's paintings often deliver an extremely potent visual and emotional impact, perhaps surprisingly so for works in a medium traditionally considered delicate in intention and congenial for small-scale rendering. Especially in those paintings in which the dimensions reach up to seven or eight feet on a side, making them mammoths of the medium, Osyczka has enlarged the scope and ambition of watercolor painting itself..." Jeffrey Wechsler, Senior Curator Zimmerli Art Museum
"...As a result of the oversize development in the handmade rag paper for the medium, Bohdan Osyczka has had an opportunity to continually expand forms and shapes with color and tension in ever enlarging scale. Throughout this, his experimentation is always free without formula and never deliberate. Spontaneity with control...His utilization of color within a negative space can be subtle, electric and /or pungent. Nothing is haphazard. His total output firmly establishes him as one of a handful of abstract painters solely in the transparent watercolor medium..." Sutherland McColley Hudson River Museum
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born in Herkimer, New York Education: Art Students League 1943 Syracuse University, BFA Syracuse NY Selected Exhibitions: 2008 Watercolours & Drawings Royal Academy of Arts London England 2008 Bohdan Osyczka/Georgia O'Keefe The Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn NY 2005-2006 Winter Solstice IV The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains NY Curator: Tedd Stratis 2005 Zorya Fine Art Greenwich CT 2005 Solo Exhibition Hollis Taggert Galleries New York NY 2005 Solo Exhibition The Katonah Museum Katonah NY Curator: Jeffrey Wechsler Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University NJ 2005 Selections The Studio Annex New York NY 2004 Real to Unreal Hammond Museum North Salem NY 2004 Three at The Studio The Studio Armonk NY
New York NY 2001 Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston ME 2001 Solo Exhibition Peekskill NY 1998 Rutgers University New Brunswick NJ 1995 Nardin Galleries Somers NY Selected Collections: Chase Manhattan Bank Citicorp Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. Hudson River Museum IBM Inc. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Manufacturers Hanover Trust Metromedia Fiber Network Monhegan Cultural Historical Museum Pepsico World Headquarters Rockefeller Foundation Prudential Insurance Co. of America Southern New England Telephone Syracuse University Selected Bibliography: 2005 "Bohdan Osyczka," Robert Ayers, Artnews Magazine 2001 Mohegan: The Abstracted Island, John Day, American Art Review 1988 The New York Review Les Krants, American References 1976 Who's Who in American Art, B.R. Bowler, Publisher 1965 Bohdan D. Osyczka Strives for the Elusive Moment American Artist 1965 Osyczka Watercolors are a Maine Event, Joan Hanaur, New York Journal American Selected Awards: 2000 KMAA Award, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts Mt. Kisco NY 1996 Art Award Historical Hall Bedford Village NY 1994 Award of Honor Osaka Museum Osaka Japan 1990 Award of Excellence Science Section The New York Times New York NY 1976 Purchase Award Hudson River Museum Yonkers NY 1970 Watercolor Award Westchester Art Society White Plains NY 1967 Honors Award Fine Arts Division O. Swarovski & Co. New York NY 1964 Certificate of Excellence Fine Arts Exhibition National Association of Art Services New York NY 1961 Andrea Gail Award American Veterans Society of Artists New York NY 1950 Watercolor National Academy of Design New York NY 1943 Augusta Hazard Fellowship College of Fine Arts Syracuse University Syracuse NY Selected Publications: Time Business Week Popular Science Think IBM Readers Digest The New York Times Simon & Schuster Pocket Books Avon Time Warner Dell Publishing MacMillan Harper Collins Random House Tor Books Leisure Books Crown Publishing Guptile Publishing Selected Television/Film William Tytla Productions CBS, Inc. Rudder Design Ron Gorton Productions Professional
Activities & Memberships: Faculty Parsons School of Design 1990 - 2004 Katonah Museum Artists Assoc. Board Member Society of Illustrators New York NY Graphic Artists Guild New York NY |
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