“In my journey through the arts, I don’t limit myself— whatever comes to my mind,” he says. “I’ve never worked with glass, but everything else. I don’t have a preference.” Despite his success as a working artist, Gurevich taught art until 2004—at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, at St. John’s University, and in Jersey City, where he founded Arts on the Hudson in 1998 after discovering that his son’s school did not offer art classes. Gurevich’s program included drawing, painting, music, African dance, stained glass, sculpture, martial arts, pantomime, and web design. He currently teaches privately. He is also on the board of the Museum of Russian Art at 80 Grand St., which opened in 1979. The museum is in a “difficult situation,” he says, “because the rent went up tremendously, and nobody buys artwork.”
Gurevich’s sculptures are on display at Newark Penn Station. He has also shown works in Jersey City at St. Michael’s Church at 252 Ninth St., and at Jersey Wine and Spirits, 492 Jersey Ave., where sculptures and pastels are on exhibit. A room in the back of the store has close to 30 pieces of art in various media. A blurb for his first book, Allegories, (April 2014) describes his transition from Soviet Russia to the U.S. “In time came adjustment to a new country and new relationships, and with this integration, lush colors burst forth in still life, portraiture, and photographs.” Says Gurevich, “If you’re an artist, you should be able to do anything.”— Kate Rounds Grigory Gurevich 282 Barrow St. (201) 451-4862 (Home) (551) 998-5819 (Cell) grigorygurevich@gmail.com
BRONZE SCULPTURE – by Grigory Gurevich
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Marcel Marceau (left) and Grigory Gurevich.
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