‘Alone and Gorgeous’, Oil on canvas, 36’ x 24”

‘She Is Coming’, Drawing  on paper, 17” x 13” 

Val dyshlov

Val Dyshlov was born in Siberia, land of “frosts, white snow and brown bears,” as he puts it. He now lives in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey and is a surrealist of the cartoonish and whimsical type. Like Picasso, line is the ruling element in his work. Even in oil paints, he is more graphic than painterly. And, like Picasso, founder of cubism, he is driven to carve and hammer three-dimensionality into faceted forms.

In his own way, he, too, wants to go back to the beginning. Instead of drawing on past cultures, however, he reimagines life, the world, the universe, from the ground up. So it is with his "Alcons and “Fantastic Creatures” series, in which the fauna are cranky-looking bird creatures. They perch in a barren landscape (albeit, equipped with hydraulic-looking platforms that lift them from below), and like creatures from a Beckett play, they squawk out meaningless announcements, warnings, gossip, self-promotions and declarations of war—in other words, they do all the usual human things.

Dyshlov immigrated to the United States from the Ukraine in 1995 and exhibits in various galleries. His work has a strong presence in the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey, part of a gift from the collector Norton Dodge, who specialized in Russian underground art.

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‘The Dew Drop’, Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”

‘Gathering’, Etching, Archival print on Fabriano paper, 9” x 12”

‘Soaring’, Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”

‘Merry Companions’, Etching, Archival Print on Fabriano paper, 12” x 9”