"American Painter in Russia - Diplomacy through the Paintings of GEORGE OOMMEN"
2010-07-01 until 2010-07-31
Contemporary Art Gallery Arka
Vladivostok, , RU Russian Federation

Contemporary Art Gallery Arka in Vladivostok, in collaboration with The United States Consulate General in Vladivostok, introduces an "American Painter in Russia Diplomacy through Art Paintings of GEORGE OOMMEN" with an opening reception  Thursday July 1, 2010 from 17.00-20.00. The exhibition will be on display for the month of July. This exhibition coincides with the 150th anniversary of Vladivostok and the 4th of July, Americas Independence Day. George Oommen is a Kerala born Boston based Harvard educated Architect/ Painter has worked for Harvard University for three decades. Oommen has had his  Retrospective in 2009 at The Whistler Museum of Art in Lowell Mass and has shown his work internationally. George Oommen has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2004.

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"The art of George Oommen is nostalgic in the best unsentimental sense. His paintings evoke a kind of sheer unearthly beauty. They are inspired by a place on the planet, however. One of the impulses behind them is to evoke an atmosphere that is at an opposite pole from the austere ambiance of Boston where he resides most of the time.

"Already George Oommen has been a painter for several decades and he has explored many styles and attitudes. In a very real sense he is a complete artist: he is at a point where his work, though intensely retinal, has a wide range of meaning. Rooted in sensuousness, and realized in an everyday manner, Oommen's vision of Kerala, has given him a concentrated approach to art and enabled him to achieve a conspicuous spiritual dimension. A series was entitled "Sacred Places within You." And one can expect George Oommen to be preoccupied for some time exploring enchanted places."

- William Zimmer, Contributing Art Critic to NY Times, New York City

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