The Museum of Russian Icons is presenting Jacques’ Menagerie: Hnizdovsky Prints from the Christina and George Gamota Collection, March 16 – July 7, 2019, featuring works by acclaimed Ukrainian-American painter and printmaker Jacques Hnizdovsky. Curated by Anna Winestein, director of the Ballets Russes Arts Initiative, the exhibition includes 40 of the artist’s iconic prints depicting animals, plants, cityscapes, and narrative scenes, alongside an early oil painting and several rarely seen early works. Born in Ukraine, trained in Poland and Croatia, Jacques Hnizdovsky (1915-1985) was a refugee to the US who traveled a difficult road through life. Embraced by American viewers and collectors, his art expressed his capacity for joy, humor, and hope, most often in black and white. His boldly graphic and playful
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