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The VanGlen Gallery in Peekskill Features Paintings by Russian Artist Roman Kriheli
Artist John Payne announces the opening of VanGlen Gallery's new exhibition featuring representational and classical paintings by Russian Artist Roman Kriheli in the Peekskill Artists District September 23- October 28, 2007. There will be an artist's reception Sunday, September 23rd, 2- 5pm sponsored by Daniel Burghart, of The Sawhorse, Inc.
Roman Kriheli was born in 1956 in the Soviet Union. He started painting when he was three years old and participated in his first group show at the age of five. "My father gave me a book on Michelangelo for my sixth birthday," he recalls, "and it was then that I began to take interest in Classical Art."
In 1972 he attended the famous art school of Yakov Nikoladze in Tiflis, Georgia, U.S.S.R. (Nikoladze was a pupil of Auguste Rodin). In Israel, where he worked intensely and participated in several exhibitions in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Sofad. At the end of the same year he moved to Italy, where his work was exhibited in the Palace of Congress. There he received First Prize among the works of 200 painters. His paintings were also entered in an international exhibition in Rome, where he again obtained First Prize.
Kriheli came to America in 1975 and continued his serious study of the Old Renaissance Masters, as well as ancient Indian and Egyptian art. In 1980 he had a one-man show at the Lynn Kottler Galleries in New York, as well as a major group show in Rome's Palace of Congress. By 1986 Kriheli had participated in exhibitions at Ryex Gallery in Brussels, Belgium; Mussovi Art Center in New York City; Gallerio Maroy in Englewood, New Jersey; Sloan Gallery of Art in Denver, Colorado; and several group shows in Rome, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv.
The opening reception and exhibition throughout October 28th is free and open to the public. VanGlen Gallery is located at 981 Main Street (next to Kathleen's Tea Room) Peekskill. For information contact John Payne at 914-930- 7866 or e-mail vanglen@verizon.net
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