Presented by Anita Shapolsky Gallery

(1907-1981) Ilya Bolotowsky had a legendary career that involved painting, sculpture, mural production, as well as teaching, and also filmmaking. He was an idealist who constantly embraced new trends in search of order and balance in response to his tumultuous upbringing in Russia. A socially progressive thinker who devoted his life to enriching the abstract tradition, he found that the geometric discipline of the cerebral Neoplasticism exemplified by Piet Mondrian was a way to express his desire for a dynamic equilibrium. His geometric abstractions of the 1950s achieved a sophisticated balance of linear spatial divisions and striking color tonalities.