Gallery Artists in Gallery 3: Edem Elesh, and James Patrick Finnegan, Zinovy Shersher
Edem Elesh
Edem Elesh is internationally exhibited and he is a multi-talented artist who is known in both in music and as a museum exhibiting fine artist. Educated in England and America, he exhibits worldwide in museums and galleries which include in Asia (Thailand and Japan) and in Italy. Edem Elesh has produced work recognized for contributions to social change.
Danang Contemporary Art Museum, Danang, Vietnam.
Nakhon Sawan Fine Art Museum, Nakhon Sawan, Thailand.
Andaman Museum, Krabi Thailand
Changzhou Art Museum, Changzhou, China
Chun Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
Toyko Metropolitan Art Museum.
Uemo Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Elesh 1 below
Elesh 2, Elesh 3
Elesh 1 ‘Mnemonic Devotion I”. Oil, tar, patina, and gold leaf on 4- 24’ X 24” aluminum panels. 9’ X 9” print permanent collection of Pershing Square Fine Art Committee.
Elesh 2 “Buffalo Grass”. Oil, Tar, patina, gold sprinkles, and Indian fabric on 5- 24” X 24” aluminum panels. Collection of Poh Chang University Museum.
Elesh 3 “The Anthropocene Stairway”. Oil, tar, patina, pencil, and sand on 2- 24” X 48” aluminum panels.
James Patrick Finnegan
The artist James Patrick Finnegan has international outreach in exhibitions. He is an American artist, with US education in the fine arts who has broad experience as a higher education arts educator. His work has been broadly exhibited in museums abroad throughout Asia and in the United States in various media. His work has received awards multiple times in the American South West. Art exhibitions internationally have concentrated in museums in the Thailand arena of fine art.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
BSakata Garo, (2 person show) Sacramento CA
LA Artcore, Union Center, Los Angeles, CA
Little Big Space, Albany CA
LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Uniqities, Bolinas, CA
4321Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA
University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
B.Sakata Garo Fine Arts, Sacramento, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
Crossing the Divide, Gallery Ret One, Pt Reyes, CA
Crossing the Divide, Gallery Ret One, Pt Reyes, CA
In Place, San Geronimo Community Center (Virtual)
Thai/USA Exchange Show, Thai Cultural Center, Bangkok
Gun Show, Art Space 1616, Sacramento, CA
Asian Art +, Naresuan University, Thailand
KMUTNB, International Art and Design, North Bangkok
INTERPLAY, South Bay Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
WORKS ON PAPER 46, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
CA101, Manhattan Beach, CA
RAiR, 50th Anniversary Show, Anderson Museum, Roswell,N.M.
TRUMPED, Sacramento, CA
USA/Thailand Exchange Show, Bangkok, Thailand
Andaman Museum International Workshop and Show, Krabi, Thailand
15th Annual Painting and Callligraphy Show, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
USA/Thai Exchange Show, Bangkok, Thailand
1st Changzou China International Art Workshop and Festival”, Baoshengyhou Museum
1st Annual Art Festival and Workshop, Show, Narasuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand
8th International Art Festival, Poh-Chang Academy of Art, Bangkok
Book Club IV, San Francisco City College, San Francisco, Ca.
4th International Art Festival and Workshop”, Rajamangala University of Technology, Rattanakosin, Poh-Chang
2nd International Art Festival and Workshop, Rajamangala University of Technology, Bangkok and Rajamangal Institute of Technology, Phatumthani, Thailand,
2nd International Art Exhibition Thailand-USA, Srinakharinwirot University,
Bangkok, Thailand Cultural Center,Bangkok, Burapha University,Chonburi
PULP, Carl Berg Gallery at Cypress College, Cypress, CA
SCULPTURE 2002, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento. CA
The GROUP SHOW, Baxter Gallery, Denver, Co.
AWARDS
Three awards: Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Roswell, New Mexico
Individual Artist Grant, Marin County, California
Zinovy Shersher
Born in Russia, the English and Russian speaking artist Zinovy has resided in the USA since 1980. A rare multitalented individual, he is highly educated in both fields, and has outstanding achievements in both music and fine art in Russia and in the United States. He explains his multiple talent-based work which is tied to his particular recognition, “I am also a professional multi-awards winning musician: composer and performer, Voting member of GRAMMYS. That’s why it’s so much music in my art.” His work clearly evidences synaesthetic experience and one of his catalogs clearly references the Sound of Colors. The Artist says, “I want people to hear the music in my paintings, and to see the art in my music.” The artist writes, “I was very touched when, at one of my exhibitions in Singapore, two ladies came to me and said, ‘We hear your paintings.’ ” Zinovy shares: he was influenced by El Greco, Braque, and Picasso among other cubist artists. His work shows their influence particularly in his abstract paintings. One the collectors of Shersher’s artwork, art critic Robert Rotshild, wrote of Zinovy’s talent as a musician and a fine artist, “….. I am happy to have his art in my collection next to Karel Appel, J. Miro, Warhol and other great masters.” Zinovy refers to his style as “Traditional (Cubistic) Modernism.” The main themes in his paintings are music and love. His work includes portraits, and the artist writes to the museum curator, that he has been called, “a painter of the stars.” His portraits are made in his own non-traditional style. Clearly, well received as fine art, stylistic portrait painter, he was commissioned for portraits of Cher, Stevie Wonder and John Lennon. Subsequent to these portraits, Zinovy was commissioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures to create a huge painting entitled “OSCAR-29.” This painting contained the portraits of the first Oscar winners as a special tribute for the 75th Academy Awards. This tribute-based artwork was exhibited at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum for 10 years. Shersher is also known for a significant social contribution as his 2000 square foot mural entitled “We Have a Future” is installed in Downtown, Los Angeles, California. Shersher is honored in various professional listings both in USA in national publications and in international publications worldwide.
Solo Exhibits: (include)
Case Museum, New Jersey, United States
Delray Beach Gallery, Florida, USA
Sahara Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Violet Salon, Paris, France
Art Expos, New York Javits Center, Art Expos, USA
Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Wine Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Opera Gallery, Singapore
Award Winner, Oil Pastel Association
Hollywood Entertainment Museum L A, CA, USA
Enter the world of Zinovy Shersher!
“I want people to hear the music in my paintings,” says Zinovy Shersher, multi-award-winning Russian-born painter, entertainer, and composer, who was the first fine artist to combine the passion and mystery of music and art. After moving to the United States in 1980 he built his distinctive style and genius, which is a mystical amalgam of spirituality, sensuality, and passion.
“Zinovy Shersher is extremely talented both as a musician and a fine artist. He creates his paintings by blending the elements of elegant linearity, abstracted or cubistic spatiality, soothing and pleasantly harmonious color palettes, and compositions that knit the figures together expressively…” Robert Rothschild, art critic, collector, Among his many featured works, he created a 2,000 square foot mural entitled “We Have a Future” which earned him numerous awards, as well as the Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Los Angeles. He was commissioned to do a painting with the portraits of the First Oscar winners for the 65th anniversary of the Academy Awards. In addition to galleries, such as Wentworth Publishing, Dyansen Gallery, Zinovy was a partner in the Sherberg Gallery in Los Angeles. He was also represented by the R&S Gallery of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.
More than 100 articles and TV and Radio interviews have been devoted to Zinovy. His biography is in the “Encyclopedia of Living Artists in America”, “Who’s Who in Art” and “Who’s Who in the West”. As a successful artist for many years, Shersher’s work can be found in many private and corporate collections in the USA, United Kingdom, Egypt, Russia, Dubai, France, Japan, Italy, and Costa Rica, Partial List of corporations: Bank of America, Best Western Hotel, CASE Museum, Hollywood Entertainment Museum, Avalon Inc, etc. Over the years he collaborated with the finest American and European artists and galleries, whose work has been prized by celebrities from Cher to Elizabeth Taylor, and scored “The Hunt for Red October”.
Zinovy’s sold-out one-man shows, his galleries, and his performances in America and Europe are one of a kind as he creates a symbiosis between art and music. Each excites, and each inflames on its own. When together, the master creates an event! Together, the master creates an exquisite experience, filled with passion, and pathos. It is an unparalleled emotional journey.
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1. ART PROMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBdq9va8PdY&t=3s
2. My Awards-winning song “Remember me” and art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjqqOVpyvjw
3. My Portraits and “Oscar-29” commissioned by the OSCARS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M450VYbgsXc
4. My Abstracts and “Thinking of you” music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWD3ZPc313E
5. Zinovy Art Exhibition in one of Los Angeles Galleries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDuUQLdere8
6. Zinovy Shersher, Composer, Producer, Artist, a voting member at Grammys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-tFARWBcTM&t=46s
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