My works are about visual perception and the ways in which the face or body or sometimes even a simple cup responds to the color, line, texture or pattern. The "Thing" or "Subject" by itself, surrounded by "Great Nothing", is my excitement. I try to establish a very private dialog between the viewer and the subject matter of my painting. It is a simple and sincere conversation without any unnecessary details.
Yury Dasrashkevich
Latitude 54, Longitude 26 = Location = Asipovichi, Belarus where I was born in 1962. Following my passion, I attended and graduated from Belarusian State Academy of the Arts in 1985.Upon graduation I began a career in the illustration and graphic design field, painting in my spare time. After several very successful solo shows, I started to devote my attention to my art in the early 90`s. Shortly after making this career change, accompanied by my family I moved to Toronto Canada.
AWARDS
2009
Best in Show Award, SCA Members's Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
2002
Artist of the Month, Liquitex Awards and Grants Program, USA
2000
Second Prize, 10th International Art Competition, Havre-de-Grace, USA
Second Prize, Kreft National Juried Exhibition, Ann Arbor, USA
1999
Award of Excellence, Manhattan Arts International Magazine Annual Art Competition NY, USA
Best In Show, Artfocus Magazine 8th Annual Fall Artist's Show, Toronto
1995
Grant from the "Soros Foundation"
First Prize, White Art Festival, Minsk, Belarus
1993
First Prize, Advertising 93 Competition, Kiev, Ukraine
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, ON (group)
2004
Art by the Cup Lydia Monaro Gallery, Montreal, QC
Group Show and Auction Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
Milwaukee Art Museum, Lakefront Art Festival, Milwaukee, WI (group)
2003
"Water" Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville, ON (group)
"Shadow of Water", Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, ON
2001
"The Quest for One's Own Vessel", Peterson Fine Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
1999
"Introduction", Prime Gallery, Toronto
1998
"Bremen Daybook," Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany
"A Little Blue," Podkova Lesna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1996
"New Grail," 6-Line Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
"Cups, Search #2" Villa Weiner Gallery, Rheine, Germany
1995
"Cups, Search #1", National Art Museum of Belarus, Minsk
"Brown Women" Exhibition Place JEC International, Turin, Italy
"Brown Square" Republican Art Gallery, Minsk
1994
"Cups and Dames" Palace of Arts, Minsk
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Numerous museums, public galleries and private collectors have acquired my artwork including:
Aurion Capital Management, Canada
Lakeshore Memorial Library, Canada
Multiple Arte Gallery, Spain
Tanja Collections, Holland
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk
The National Art Museum of Belarus
Volks Bank, Germany
Kloster Bentlage, Germany
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Noel Meyer, "New Frontiers in Canada", Magazine Art #4/ Summer 2006, p.127-130
Dorota Kozinska, "Contained Freedom", Parcour, Autumn 2003, p.9
Jean Dumont, "La Lumiere avant tout" Parcour, Autumn 2003, p. 7-8
Robert Bernier, "La fluidite des sens", Parcour, hiver 2002, p. 37-47
Dorota Kozinska, "Art by the Cup", Parcour, hiver 2002, p.41-44
Mary Ann Wilkinson, "2000 Kreft National Juried Exhibition", Kreft Gallery catalog, 2000
Martin Rehkopp, "Kunstprojekt Texte" Kulturforum Rheine, 1998, p. 13-15
Frauke Fischer, "Bremer Tagebuchsâ" Weserkurier, 14 January, 1998
The Belarusian Encyclopedia book #6, p. 51
The Encyclopedia of Art and Design, Minsk, p. 46
