Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1937, Igor Galanin, his wife and two children came to the United States in 1972 and settled in New York State. His paintings exemplify his highly individualistic style, executed with splendid authoritative and rhythmic harmony. Igor’s painting is best described in his own words: My paintings, my art has no sense and delivers no message. For me, it is a salutary illusion; a wonderful or terrible lie. For this reason, it’s the responsibility of the viewer to establish his or her own logic and feeling, relying on the objects, color and compositions offered to them. Not even in the smallest way is my art important to society; I do not set for myself any social goals, do not solve any moral dilemmas, or elaborate on general ideas. My art can only be important to the distinct and separate personality, only the individual viewer is important to me. Igor Galanin, New York, 1992 Igor Galanin’s paintings are not intended to make a great deal of logical sense, only to delight, amuse, intrigue, and enchant. Nor are they intended to reflect a concern for the great formal or theoretical questions of the day. They are too happy and carefree for that -although they do have just enough melancholy to make them look “modern”, and just enough enigma to make them feel at home in the age that produced Roussea’s “The Sleeping Gypsy” and the strange and fantastic goings on in the canvases of de Chirico, Ernst, Dali and Magritte. Theodore F. Wolff, The Christian Science Monitor, New York, 1982 I do not know what I admire more: the precise reflection of a fantastic world made believable by the minute exactness of the images, or the certain daring in which these turn mysterious. I.E. Ouvaroff, Rome, 1972

E x h i b i t i o n s      1999 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA 1994-98 Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL 1996-98 Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 1992-96 David Findlay Galleries, New York, New York 1989 Brevard Art Center, Melbourne, FL 1988 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA 1987 Kieff Galerie D’Art, Montreal 1987 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA 1986 Aberbach Fine Art, New York, New York 1986 Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, CO 1983-84 Aberbach Fine Art, New York, New York 1982-84 Kauffman Galleries, Houston, Texas 1978-82 Aberbach Fine Art, New York, New York 1977 London Gallery, Montreal Village Gallery, Croton-on-Hudson, New York 1976 Andre Emmerich, New York, New York Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA 1975 “Young Artists ‘75” Exhibition, New York, New York Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA 1974 Village Gallery, Croton-on-Hudson, New York 1973-74 Fishers Island, New York 1972 Paesi Nuovi Gallery, Rome, Italy A w a r d s   The Art Director’s Club 70th Annual Exhibition 1991 Merit Award M u s e u m   C o l l e c t i o n s   Zimerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Burnswick, NJ Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA An American Art Collection, Philharmonic Center for Arts, Naples, FL

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