Vitaly Komar

Vitaly Komar, like his creative partner Alexander Melamid, is a Moscow-born artist who emigrated to New York in 1978. Komar is one of the founders of the Sots Art movement of the 1970s and ’80s, which is considered the USSR’s answer to Pop art. Their work used the iconography and propaganda symbols of Soviet Russia to deconstruct and explode established myth.

Chen Danqing, Tears Flooding the Autumnal Fields: oil painting of men working in a golden field

Painters without Borders

The exhibition Figurative Diaspora, cocurated by Mark Tansey and Peter Drake, presented paintings by five Chinese artists alongside work by six Russian artists, all of whom create “unofficial,” subversive, non-state-sanctioned art, thus tracing the influences of art across borders.

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Vitaly Komar

Painters without Borders

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