"Retrospective Exhibition" by Mikhael Gubin will be held throughout the Long Island film festival.
Painter's website: http://www.gubinart.com

Painter's Biography 

MIKHAIL GUBIN was born in Kharkov, Soviet Union in 1953.
GUBIN came to artistic maturity before the social reforms of Perestroyka, at time when avant-garde art was relegated to surreptitious "apartment exhibitions" where painters dared show their work only to a few trusted fellow artists. GUBIN's and others' calls for artistic freedom led to trouble with the authorities; he brought his family to New York in 1989 and became a U.S. citizen in 1995. He is vocal in his appreciation of the opportunities that America has given him, and his recent turn to painting the streetscapes of Manhattan is very much homage to his adopted home. The works dating from 2004 - 2008, evidence GUBIN moving to ever-greater abstraction, with large passages of heavily textured paint (impasto) that are barely restrained by the horizontals and verticals of the cityscape. Turning away from the overly-determined narratives of his earlier work, GUBIN is today moving toward ever-looser handling of his materials. In pushing his paint to match the experience rather than the optical reality of the city, MIKHAIL GUBIN's search for the visual equivalence of urban immediacy will take him in uncharted directions.
In 2007 the Warner Bros.Television has used five of Mikhail Gubin's original works for it’s new series entitled GOSSIP GIRL.
Mikhail Gubin has been invited at Hot Art - ArtSpy. It is half-hour television show presenting lively conversations among established and emerging artists and representatives from arts organizations. Produced in partnership with the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) and Queens Public Television (QPTV).
About Mikhail repeatedly wrote articles such newspapers, as the New York Times, the New York Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, the Star-Ledger.
His memberships include Audubon Artists Inc, and Silvermine Guild of Artists.
Throughout the eighteen years of his residence in New York he has had 26 solo exhibitions and participated in more then 200 group shows.