Exhibit Opening Reception for Seeing with my Heart Paintings by Vera Yurchuk Show continues to March 7th 2020.
The compositions in Vera Yurchuk’s paintings have typically been vibrantly abstract, with a strong influence from her travels, antiquity and her love of nature. Still life, celebrating womanhood and her Ukrainian heritage have been notable, recurring themes in her paintings. Recently, she has refocused the themes of her paintings more intensely on the dramatic events related to the Russian invasion of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine.
Vera Yurchuk graduated from the Ontario College of Art and freelanced as a commercial artist in the early part of her professional career. Since the late 1960’s she has concentrated on paintings. Most of her better-known works are acrylics on canvas, though she has also done mixed-media works, monotypes, graphic art and murals.
Her art has been presented to the public in several solo exhibitions and group shows in Toronto, Ottawa, New York, Chicago and Lviv, Ukraine. Her work is included in a number of private and public collections, including the Museum of Civilization in Hull Quebec.
Most of Vera’s paintings, created during her artistic career from the 1960’s to the present, have been catalogued in a recently published book entitled “VERA YURCHUK, A Retrospective”.
