Alexander Pogrebinsky
by Joseph Woodward

Alexander Pogrebinsky’s work provides an unexpectedly subtle capper to the show.  Contrasting the variously exacting and unabashedly lovely floral studies downstairs, Pogrebinsky’s paintings present floral subjects in an ethereal, half-dematerialized state.  His is a beguiling, mystical approach, which could be translated as a philosophical question as much as a statement of the beauty at hand.

One could say that this duality has marked art from the Ukraine and the general Russian region since the pre-Bolshevik days of Kandinsky and the Constructivists.  It continued to exist in art from the region, albeit under censor’s wraps, for decades.  To catch glimpses of the same spirit offers a dose of inspiration that transcends art appreciation.

“Scene”, Santa-Barbara News-Press, Friday, September 7, 2001