38 Boston artists presenting pieces that reflect their thoughts about the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as their reflections on ideas of hope, peace, compassion, solidarity. Donations and proceeds from artwork sales are going to help the people in Ukraine and refugees through the following organizations:
Cash for Refugees – https://www.cashforrefugees.org/
Global Disaster Relief Team – https://www.gdrt.org/
Ukraine TrustChain – https://www.ukrainetrustchain.org/
Sunflower of Peace – https://www.sunflowerofpeace.com
Operation Sunflower – https://www.opsunflower.org/
Explore the exhibition in 3D:
Alexandra Rozenman
Watching after your Yoga Master
Collage on paper, 14”x17”
$400
A Soft Touch
Collage on paper, 12”x9”
$250
A Blue Ball Between
Collage on paper, 12”x9”
$250
Playing
Collage on paper, 14”x11”
$250
50% of the sales to Global Disaster Relief Team
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Alexander Zvagin
Dreams Under Mechanical Clocks
Ink on paper, 8”x11”
$300 each
Last picture (bottom right) – SOLD
100% of sales to Ukraine TrustChain
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Alexander Gassel
Village
Ink wash on paper
$500
100% of sale to Global Disaster Relief Team
Contact vzimakov@gmail.com
Alisa Rodny
War Chicken 2
12×24 inches
Mixed Media on wood panel
SOLD
Chicken Candleholder
12×12 inches
Glazed ceramics
SOLD
Chicken Candleholder Plate
12×12 inches
Glazed ceramics
SOLD
100% of sales to Cash For Refugees
Alla Lazebnik
The Moment of Hope
Clay
4”x6 ½”x4½”
$300
100% of sales to Global Disaster Relief Team
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617-650-8518
I was hoping to show with this piece, a “Moment of Hope,” that this person is sitting in a sort of broken reality but we are hoping that all will be coming back to normal soon. Even though the inside of the structure does not have color, that is the true reality, while the outside with the blue sunflowers has a little glimpses of color and suggests a hopeful dream world.
Deborah Baldizar
Prayer
Ceramic
$195
50% of sale to Ukraine TrustChain
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Dina Shaposhnikova
Salem’s Lot Tree
Ink on paper
8×10 inches
$200
Torn Oak Leaf
Ballpoint pen, watercolor
8×10
$275
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Donni Richman
Ukrythia – Blooms from bullet holes
Photography & graphics on canvas
18” x 24”
$300.00
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“Ukrythia” celebrates the spirit of Ukraine and its citizens to overcome their tragic invasion like the certain blooming of forsythia each spring.
A photograph of this year’s luscious bloom forms the base of this graphic play of hope.
Emmanuelle Le Gal
Guardian Angel
Watercolor
11×17
$180
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We all have a guardian angel watching over us. Cemeteries are places of peace and natural beauty. They often offer truly inspiring artwork. I painted this beautiful stone angel after a family road trip to Savannah, GA. This is Jonny Mercer’s Angel at the Bonaventure Cemetery. This devastating war is causing so much suffering that I find myself praying so often for peace and justice in Ukraine. May this angel bring you some light and comfort from the storm.
Inna Zhukovsky-Zilber
Untitled
Watercolor, ink, gouache on paper
SOLD
Untitled
Watercolor, ink, gouache on paper
SOLD
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Irina Sigalovsky
On the Topic of Collective Subconscious
Watercolor and pencil
11” x 15” (without frame and mat)
$450 (framed)
Poppies Will Grow on These Fields
Oil and wax
20” x 16”
SOLD
100% of sale to Ukraine TrustChain
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On the Topic of Collective Subconsious – Certain images evoke similar emotions and associations in all of us, independent on where we grew up or what we experienced directly: empathy, awareness, sorrow, tragedy of destruction and hope. I want to bring these images to the front of our consciousness because some things we should never forget.
Poppies Will Grow on Those Fields – Red poppy flowers represent different things in different cultures: consolation, eternal sleep, death, birth. Here, however, I wanted to use them as a symbol of remembrance more than anything else. Remembrance and hope.
J. Alice Sipple
Global Community
Cyanotype print, sumi-e ink,
watercolor and metal leaf
12”x16”
$200
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My medium of choice is water-oriented – combining sumi-e ink, watercolor, and cyanotype printmaking (an early photographic process that uses sunlight to expose the print and water to develop it). The cyanotype shown here is made by placing a photo transparency on top of pre-treated paper and exposing the paper to sunlight. Gazing at the prints as they develop in a water bath, or following the charcoal-based sumi-e ink as it travels across a wet surface, is a meditative experience which I hope is visible in the work. This process has helped me to reflect upon the many ways in which the lives of human beings are woven into the natural world, and how all beings on this planet are interconnected.
Jinny Sagorin
Take These Seeds
Watercolor, mixed media
11”x14”
SOLD
100% of sale to Sunflower of Peace
My artwork was inspired by the story of the brave Ukrainian woman who confronted a heavily armed Russian solder in the Kherson Region, and offered him sunflower seeds, so that flowers would grow when he died there on Ukraine’s soil. “Take these seeds”, she said, “and put them in your pockets so at least sunflowers will grow when you all lie down here.”
Katya Roberts
To Bloom. Bright Yellow Again
Paper, charcoal, pain, thread
22”x32”x3.5”
$850
In the Fields
Plaster, volcanic rocks
24”x24”x4”
$850
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Influenced by my Sociology background, I am interested in the ways people and spaces influence each other and our relationship to the landscapes we traverse. Visual representations of geologically dynamic landscapes often become the backdrop against which I explore our relationship to time and history.
My multi-media work weaves together installation art, painting, sculpture, sound interactivity and video. I work with a variety of materials and media and this allows me to pull from different disciplines. I create the art works to be, visually and conceptually, in relationship and in conversation with each other. I try to find poetry within the materials, while working to push them into a visceral, nostalgic, or meditative state.
I am drawn to fissures, where their boundaries meet and intersect. Growing up Ukrainian in the U.S. I have rehearsed living at the intersections of identity, places, languages and ideas. I aim to create work that points to things beyond itself.
Lisa Granata
Displaced
Acrylic & ink on paper, relief print
20”x16”
$375
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The idea for this work came from an image of Syrian civilian woman who was displaced from her home by the assault by the Assad regime and its Russian ally. This woman has been displaced from her home and forced to flee the Russian airstrikes. Almost 600,000 fled the relative safety of the Turkish border. Many of the displaced people were women and their children. The subject of my artwork is a mother who is holding her child whom she loves. Hopeful the viewer can see her humanity and her exhaustion in her expression. We can only imagine her feelings from the traumatic experience.
Luna Gomberg
My Dead (portrait series)
Monoprints – fine rice paper, ink, found materials
15”x19” each
Individual print – $1000
Whole series of 10 prints – $7000
50% of sales to Ukraine TrustChain
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This project was created for my Grandmother Raya.
My grandmother wrote a book: a memoir about her family, her childhood, and the Second World War. This year, in June, she will turn 93. But in 1941, when war came to Kiev, she was about 12 years old. Her family managed to escape, but barely: they had to up and go in one night. Everything except the bare necessities was left behind. Left behind too were photographs of her large and loving family, the last photographs of adults and children, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, cousins who died in the following four years. All of these people disappeared, erased by the horrors of war, and with them disappeared the photographs. Now their real faces exist solely in the memory of my grandmother.
This project was my attempt to preserve some sort of material memory of my gone relatives, to recreate perhaps not the people themselves, but rather their lost photographs.
Of course, I had no original to go on, so the portraits don’t look very similar to my actual relatives (as my grandmother confirmed), but that isn’t the point. The point is that these people are remembered and will be remembered for quite a while yet. And no horrors of history will ever erase such memory. That, I think, is important.
Here, is a full list of the portraits, some of which are displayed above:
Valya: died of starvation in the evacuation. He was twelve.
Lena and her daughter Polya: killed in Babiy Yar.
Boris: shot in the GULAG at the beginning of the war.
Liza and her daughter Sonya: killed in Babiy Yar.
Misha: killed in the Kiev defense militia.
Alik, Zyama’s son: died of rabies in the evacuation. He was six.
Zyama, Misha’s brother: somehow managed to escape from a Nazi prisoner of war camp but was betrayed to the police and shot in the courtyard of his own house.
The wife and two sons of Solomon, my grandmother’s uncle: killed in Babiy Yar.
Miron: was sent to an orphanage before the war, most likely killed in Babiy Yar, but we will never know for sure. He was three or four years old.
The house of Menya: destroyed in the Kiev bombings. Menya herself, my great-great-grandmother was also killed in Babiy Yar.
And now, my grandmother watches the news from her home in New York and recognizes the places of her childhood destroyed once again, before her eyes. And she cries.
Lyasya Sinkovski
S for Sunflowers
(part of the “Flower Alphabet” series)
watercolor and ink
6”x9”
$250
75% of sale to Global Disaster Relief Team
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Lyudmila Mayorska Hoffman
Dancing Mavka
Mixed media, 18”x24”, SOLD
Dancing Storks
Mixed media, 12”x24”, SOLD
60% of sale to Ukraine TrustChain
I was born and grew up in Kharkiv. Today, I watch the horrors that unfold in my beloved city from afar, and like the rest of the immigrant community, do my best to support our loved ones. Despite the destruction on the streets of my first home, I believe Ukraine will win this war. With my art, I celebrate the beauty and resilience of Ukrainian spirit.
Margo Lemieux
Evening Song
Mixed media: etching & lino on Rives BFK
SOLD (slightly varied prints are available for purchase)
100% of sale to Ukraine TrustChain
Contact the artist: MLemieux@lasell.edu
Evening Song
Willa Cather – 1873-1947
Dear love, what thing of all the things that be
Is ever worth one thought from you or me,
Save only Love,
Save only Love?
The days so short, the nights so quick to flee,
The world so wide, so deep and dark the sea,
So dark the sea;
So far the suns and every listless star,
Beyond their light—Ah! dear, who knows how far,
Who knows how far?
One thing of all dim things I know is true,
The heart within me knows, and tells it you,
And tells it you.
So blind is life, so long at last is sleep,
And none but Love to bid us laugh or weep,
And none but Love,
And none but Love.
Margaret Clenow
On Seashore of Green Oak Towers
Ink on paper
8”x10”
SOLD
Lady in Hat
Ink on paper
8”x10”
SOLD
100% of sales to Cash for Refugees
Marina Rakhlin
Blue and gold sun
Watercolor, pen, ink, gold leaf
10”X14”
SOLD
Blue and gold flag #14
Watercolor, pen, ink, gold leaf
9”X12”
SOLD
Blue and gold flag #15
Watercolor, pen, ink, gold leaf
10”X14”
SOLD
100% of sales to Cash for Refugees
Natasha Dikareva
Listen Europe
stoneware, stains, glazes
14x19x9 inches
$3500
All I Want is Peace!
stoneware, stains, glazes
10x5x5 inches
$1500
For My People
stoneware, stains, glazes
9x9x3 inches
$650
New World Healer
stoneware, stains, glazes
8x7x3 inches
$850
War Dweller
stoneware, stains, glazes
11x5x5 inches
$1200
50% of sales to Cash for refugees
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All I Want is Peace – On the 24th of February, Russia brutally invaded my motherland. To make sense of this, I try to see it from different points of view, revisiting Russia’s history. I had to memorize over 1200 years of endless cruelty and predatory wars in my soviet-era grade school, which I then promptly forgot–now I review the bloody atrocities in this new context. I am glued to the news and speak to my cousin in Kiev everyday. There is some progress, if you could call it a progress, made towards the end of this war. But how many more lives will have to be sacrificed before it is over? We are a global community–I hope the world-leading countries will continue helping to stop the Russian army terror. I thought we had been entering the age of Aquarius, the era of a new creative Renaissance. But it seems we still have more of these excruciating experiences to go through before approaching the age of peace and creativity. As an eternal optimist I believe deeply in the goodness of people everywhere. We are the Earth’s consciousness, and it is up to us to steer the future in the proper direction!
Ola Aksan
Safe and Soft, Arise Series
graphite on paper
11×14”
$400
No Hiding, Arise Series
graphite on paper
8×8”
$250
Open Your Eyes, Arise Series
graphite on paper
11×14”
$400
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Arise drawing series was begun on the day Russian forces invaded Ukraine while obsessively listening to news coverage here in Boston. I was consumed with urgent feelings of fear and empathy with the Ukrainian people’s reality and I wondered, have we gone back in history? I’m insulated from the violence here in my bed as I watch the news thinking, this is where part of my family is, where I could have been. The shock and anger of this aggression has not subsided but rather motivates to emerge from my safe soft bed and look at the horrific truth.
Olga Geyyer
Journey
Oils on canvas
24”x24”x1.5”
$630
Winning Spirit
Oils on canvas
12”x9” (13”x10” framed)
$190
80% of sale to www.UnitedHelpUkraine.org
Project Hibuki Ukraine
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Olya Ledis
Color #1
Screenprint
$120
Color #1
Screenprint
$120
Color #3
Screenprint
$120
Color #4
Screenprint
$120
100% of sale going to organization
of buyer’s choice
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Peter Stringham
Postage Stamp Quilt (with a few birds)
Quilt
37”x51”
$300
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When the world is in despair, artists can create beauty as an antidote. For the challenge of a complex postage stamp quilt, I chose blue and added other bright colors (including yellow). I cut and sewed 1872 one-inch squares including a few birds that just snuck in.
Rita Aris
Enchanted Flowers
The hand built floral composition made from high fire clay and painted with multicolor glaze. The whole composition is attached to the custom stainless steel frame (the mounting bracket is provided).
36” x 22” x 5”
Weight: 14 lbs
SOLD
80% of sale to Global Disaster Relief Team
My artwork is a bridge between dream, hope, and reality.
Ronni Komarow
Sunflowers
watercolor & drawing
12” x 6”
100% of sale to Ukraine TrustChain
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Sunflowers are a symbol of hope for the people of the Ukraine. This piece is a simple watercolor image of a vase with sunflowers, observed & rendered from life. The watercolor is part of a series; I began the series when the flowers were fresh & bright & continued making paintings as the leaves faded and the petals fell to the tabletop. I find flowers to take on a new & mysterious beauty, even as they wither & fade.
Sasha Kuznetsova
Make Fish Not War
cards and posters available
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Veta Yuzhelevskaya
Path of War
Acrylic
18” x 24”
SOLD
Dance of Life
Acrylic
18” x 24”
$750
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Dance of Life – Once upon a time, when the raging orcs were storming her city and the sky was closing in darkness, sounds of battle and cries of pain of her people woke her up. Her heart opened to her land, and she began her dance.
Her dance swirled time and space, pausing the destruction. The atoms stopped dead in their orbits; the material world ceased to exist; only her dance continued.
Her unceasing movements held the world in her mind. When she danced to the border of emptiness and illusion, she placed her right hand into the Abhaya Mudra, the fear dispelling gesture. Once again, the dark forces spiraled out of their orbit and opened the pathway of light.
Path of War – Once a peaceful civilian, he became a flying defender of his country. An intelligent and quiet delivery bird of destruction.
He was deployed during the first days of the war and helped slow the enemy forces by targeting vehicles approaching the City.
He pounded shot after shot into the Orcs missile battery hidden by the lighthouse.
Stephen Fischer
The Moment of Hope
Clay
4”x6 ½”x4½”
SOLD
100% of sales to Global Disaster Relief Team
I was hoping to show with this piece, a “Moment of Hope,” that this person is sitting in a sort of broken reality but we are hoping that all will be coming back to normal soon. Even though the inside of the structure does not have color, that is the true reality, while the outside with the blue sunflowers has a little glimpses of color and suggests a hopeful dream world.
Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Human
Watercolor
13”x15” image size
SOLD
100% of sale to Cash for Refugees
Vladimir Zimakov
Walpurgisnacht
Limited edition linocut prints
(edition of 100)
11”x15”
$60 each
Stand With Ukraine
Limited edition print
(edition of 120)
$60
100% of sales to Global Disaster Relief Team
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I created those illustrations for Gustav Meyrink’s novel Walpurgisnacht 14 years ago. Mayrink wrote the novel 105 years ago, in 1917. It’s the past and, to our great sadness, still the present…
About the Novel Walpurgisnacht:Gruesome and grotesque, Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. History, myth and political reality merge in an apocalyptic climax as the rebels, urged on by a drum covered in human skin, storm the castle to crown a poor violinist ‘Emperor of the World’ in St Vitus’ Cathedral.
Yulia Dumov
Late Fall
Collage
12”x11”
Not for sale
Still Life
Oil Pastels
19”x9”
SOLD
Winter City
Etching
12×8
SOLD
75% of sale to Cash for Refugees
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Yuliya Doshen
Early Fall
Oil on canvas
24”x30”
$900
100% of sale to Ukraine TrustChain
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Zoe Paschkis
Window in Mshanets’, Lvov region
Watercolor and black ink
9”x12”
SOLD
Window in Yavoriv, Ivano-Frankivsk Region
Watercolor and black ink
9”x12”
SOLD
100% of sale to Ukraine TrustChain
Zoe Paschkis is a Boston-based watercolorist. She grew up in Newton and has shown her work at local craft fairs and cafes. Zoe discovered interior portraiture in 2020 as a way to travel without traveling. Painting rooms lets her inhabit these inviting spaces, feel their texture, and briefly make them her own. Through her recent “Cozy Corners” show at the Brookline Bank gallery in Coolidge Corner and through sales on Etsy and Instagram, Zoe has raised over $6,500 for the purchase of medical supplies, protective equipment, and humanitarian relief for Ukraine. For the Boston Artists for Ukraine exhibition, she chose to paint two Ukrainian cottage exteriors, based on photos from the Old Khata Project (instagram: @old_khata_project), which celebrates Ukrainian rural architecture.
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