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Voices |
Polonsky’s
imagery is a constant tension between the figurative and abstract,
between realism and fantasy, between light and darkness, in a symbolic
as well as an artistic sense. Both his landscapes and his figurative
works have a mystical, emotional resonance, often going beyond the
reality of the scene or figure to express a spiritual, other-worldly,
sometimes haunted state. Among figurative painters, Polonsky is an
authentic visionary. His paintings are expressive of an inner reality,
and trance-like, allow us to see beyond the real world of our ordinary
experience.
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Clay Silence |
Arthur Polonsky
has exhibited widely, in the United States and abroad. He has had
numerous solo exhibitions and retrospectives, including several at the
Wiggin Gallery of the Boston Public Library, and at the Museum of Fine
Arts in Boston, The Fitchburg Art Museum, Clark University in Worcester,
The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Brandeis University in Waltham, the
Mickelson Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Durlacher Gallery, New York,
The Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, MA, and The Art Complex Museum and the
Bumpus Gallery in Duxbury, MA.
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Faces in a Dream |
He has
participated in major group exhibitions, including at The Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam, The Salon des Jeunes Peintres, in Paris, The Palais
Universitaire de Strasbourg, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and
the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Fogg Museum, Harvard University,
The Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA, and at the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston. His work was included in important
retrospective exhibits this past Fall at The DeCordova Museum and at the
Boston University Art Gallery, as well as in a ‘then and now’ exhibit at
Francesca Anderson Gallery in Lexington of painters who had exhibited at
The Shore Gallery (closed since 1962) in Boston.
Mr. Polonsky’s works are in many
public collections, including The White House in Washington, D.C., The
Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, The Boston Public Library,
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The New York Public Library, The
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Fogg Museum of Harvard University,
The Library of Congress, The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Rose Art
Museum, Brandeis University, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University,
and The Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA. He is also represented in
many distinguished private collections.
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