Vladimir Kush
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Vladimir Kush (born 1965) is a Russian born surrealist painter and sculptor now based in the United States.[1]
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Biography
Kush was born in 1965 in Moscow, Russia. After study at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, he was conscripted into the Soviet Army where he was assigned to painting murals. In 1987 he began exhibiting with the USSR Union of Artists but earned a living drawing portraits on the streets of Moscow and caricatures for a newspaper. In 1990, following his first foreign exhibition in Germany with two other Russian artists, he emigrated to the United States, initially living in Los Angeles before moving to Hawaii where he also worked as a mural painter at the Whale Museum on Maui.[2][3] While based in Hawaii, his works received several exhibitions in Hong Kong. Gallery shows followed in Seattle and Pittsburgh, and he eventually opened his own gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii.[2] He later opened Kush Fine Art galleries in Las Vegas, Nevada[4] and Laguna Beach, California. In January 2012, the Coastline Pilot reported the theft of a Kush painting worth $7,500 from the Laguna Beach gallery.[5] Many of his original oil paintings are also sold as giclée prints which initially contributed to his popularity.[2] Images from Kush's painting (and later giclée print), Contes Erotiques, were used without his authorisation for Pink's 2006 video U + Ur Hand. Kush sued the singer and her record company for copyright infringement in 2007 with the case settled the following year when the singer agreed to pay him undisclosed damages.[6]
Selected works
- African Sonata [1]
- Arrival of the Flower Ship [1]
- Breach [3]
- Currents [7]
- Departure of the Winged Ship [8]
- Family Tree [8]
- Geneology Tree [8]
- Three Graces [1]
- Wind [1]
- Winged Satellite [1]
Publications
- Kush, Vladimir (2002). Metaphorical Journey. Kush Fine Art New York Inc. ISBN 0976529807[2]
- Journey to the Edge of Time (illustrations by Valdimir Kush; text by Kush's father, Oleg Kush and his uncle Mikhail Kush). Kush Fine Art. ISBN 0976529815[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Smith, Craig (13 October 2006). "Something Once Known, Something Once Dreamed". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 World and I (August 2002). "Vladimir Kush - Metaphorical Explorations, an artist finds his voice in Hawaii". Retrieved 27 January 2012 Template:Paywall.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thomas, Mary (29 March 1997). "Gallery Finds Russian Region Fertile Ground". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
- ↑ Gurnett, Kathleen (June 2006). "Flights of Shopping and Fantasy". San Diego Magazine, Vol. 58, No. 8, p. 20
- ↑ Clay, Joanna (12 January 2012). "Police: Galleries must be vigilant Art thefts have become fairly common in Laguna, with latest crime involving a $7,500 Vladimir Kush painting". Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
- ↑ Hindustan Times (17 August 2007). "Pink sued by painter" Template:Subscription; Blouin Artinfo (28 March 2008) "Pink to Pay for Appropriating Painting"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Midkiff, Tyler (16 March 2007). "Kush Creates new Mythologies". Sedona Red Rock News. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jZA1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=vhMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1184,2799044&dq=vladimir+kush&hl=en. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Stacy, Greg (7 June 2007). "Sunshine Surrealist". OC Weekly. http://www.ocweekly.com/2007-06-07/culture/sunshine-surrealist/. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
