Andrei Rabodzeenko (born 1961) is a Russian-American artist.
Personal
editBorn in Kyrgyzstan, USSR, he completed his studies at the Mukhina School of Art and Design in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg Art and Industry Academy). Since 1991, he lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a member of Chicago Sculpture International.[1]
Artwork
editAndrei Rabodzeenko's art focuses on philosophical themes, and has been characterized as capturing the spirit of the times. In his work, he asks "questions that humans have been asking for millennia—questions about ignorance and suffering, faith and pride, ambition and greed. And above all, about divine power. Lots of people steer clear of these deep waters. Yet the ways each generation explores them feed the zeitgeist, or spirit of the times."[2]
Rabodzeenko explores such philosophical themes in different media and styles: painting, drawing, and sculpture. In oils, he paints in two distinct styles, Archetypes and Metaphysics. Archetypes are a realistic-surrealistic style using techniques and images reminiscent of art from the early Italian Renaissance.[3] This work has been described by one critic as expressing humanistic values in allegorical form.[4] Another reviewer points to the fact that although the work initially looks like it is straight from the Renaissance, after closer inspection, the work reveals subtle references to modernity.[5] Metaphysics is a more primitive, symbolic style that mines personal yet universal dream imagery. "Imagine the glowing, contemporary paintings of Mark Rothko, throw in the symbolism of Salvador Dali, and mix it up with some Picasso etchings, and you start to grasp the world of ... artist Andrei Rabodzeenko."[6][7][8][9]
He also creates semi-abstract sculptures out of wood and metal,[10] installations,[11] and graphic work, using ink, charcoal, and chalk on paper.[2][3][12]
His paintings, drawings, and sculptures are in private and public collections, including the Loyola University Museum of Art (Chicago), Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park (Skokie, IL), and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (UK).
References
edit- ^ "Andrei Rabodzeenko". Chicago Sculpture International. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ a b McKean, Lise (July 31, 2015). "Zeitgeist on Show in Recent Work by Damien Deroubaix and Andrei Rabodzeenko | Bad at Sports". badatsports.com. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- ^ a b Alamo-Costello, Chester (August 10, 2015). "Andrei Rabodzeenko – Technotropic Romance & Other Works". The Comp Magazine.
- ^ Shurgaya-Vereiskaya, Vera (2015). "The Visual Circle of Being or Vision of Another Earth". Petersburg Curators' Notebooks. 36: 287–292.
- ^ Kaminski, Simon (Spring 2013). "With All Our Knowledge" (interview with artist Andrei Rabodzeenko)". LiteraruS. 38: 54–60.
- ^ Wiederhold, Matthew (June 27, 2002). "In the mind of Andrei Rabodzeenko: Complex Paintings at 20 North Gallery". Toledo City Paper.
- ^ Stein, Lisa (November 14, 2003). "Art portrait show takes unique view of patrons' faces". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- ^ Anderson, Jon (January 8, 2002). "Ukrainian art exhibit almost all in the family". The Chicago Tribune.
- ^ Bayne, Martha (January 4, 2002). "Gallery Tripping: A kind of, not really, almost totally Ukrainian show". Chicago Reader. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- ^ Gehring, Stephanie (March 22, 2006). "Artist gets by with a little help from his family, bringing his inspiration from the USSR". Daily Southtown.
- ^ Letts, K.A. (2016-12-02). "Projections: An Interactive Portrait Project". Rustbelt Arts. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- ^ Cottet, Colleen (July 7, 2015). "Summer at LUMA features three very different ways of looking at the sacred". Chicago Reader. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
Further reading
edit- Kaminski, Simon. “With All Our Knowledge” (interview with artist Andrei Rabodzeenko), LiteraruS, 1 (38), Helsinki, January 2013, 54-60 [1]
- Elagina, Elena. "A Happy Artist," Severnaya Avrora, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2009, 167-183
- Lokot’kov, Nikolai. "Featured Artist: Andrei Rabodzeenko," Vvedenskaya Storona, Staraya Russa, Russia, No. 2, June 2007, 30-31 [2]