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Irene Zevon, born in East New York, Brooklyn, the first
child of a family of working class immigrants from the
Ukraine, began her career in art in 1953. She studied
with Nahum Tschacbasov in New York City and Woodstock,
New York. They married in 1966 living seasonally in
Amagansett and East Hampton; and year-round in their
loft-like apartment at the Hotel Chelsea where they
became part of the Chelsea art scene. Zevon resided,
and had a studio for fifty years, in The Chelsea.
Zevon worked in a modernistic, lyrical abstract-figurative
style in the mediums of oil and acrylic painting, linoleum
block prints and monotype prints. Following her introduction
to intaglio printmaking, she developed a unique linoleum
/ woodcut / stencil / monotype printing process in which
three or more surface-printing techniques were used
in non-traditional combinations. Concurrently, she created
a collection of hand-crafted jewelry and powerful Etruscan-inspired
ceramics.
Her artworks are in private and museum collections
throughout the U.S. including the permanent collections
of The Butler Art Institute, California State Library,
Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Dallas Museum of
Fine Arts, Library of Congress, St. Louis Museum of
Art and University of Georgia Museum of Art.
Bravura presents this exhibition as a tribute to her
life and her art.
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