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One of the Houston art world's great visionaries,〔(Houston visionary mounts an art exhibit in a funeral home )〕 Nestor Topchy is a painter, sculptor, installation artist, and performance artist who was born in Somerville, New Jersey in 1963. Since 2001, he has lived on the North side of Houston on an acre compound with his wife and daughter.〔(Glass Houses 6: Nestor Topchy )〕 His work interweaves paradoxical strands of thought, incongruous painting techniques, disparate artistic traditions, and antithetical pictorial attitudes to express a coherent and pantheistic vision of reality.〔Casas, Fernando. Nestor Topchy: Generating a Pantheistic Geometric Iconography〕 ==Background== Topchy has exhibited and performed his work at galleries and museums such as the Museo de Nacion (Lima, Peru), The Evergreen Museum, Johns Hopkins University (where he held a Pysanky workshop joined by his mother, wife and daughter), Arlington Museum of Art (Arlington, Texas), The Art Museum of South East Texas (Beaumont), The Museum of Fine Arts/Houston, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and Project Row Houses, among others. His artist residencies include The Barn, William F. Flannigan Memorial Foundation in Montauk, Long Island (1993) and The Banff Center, Alberta, Canada (1999). In a 2002 exhibition at The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Inward Eye ; Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Topchy's work was included along with the artists Helen Altman, James Lee Byars, Vija Clemins, Lynn Davis, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Ann Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Liab, Walter De Maria, Donald Moffett, Ernesto Neto, Raymond Pettibon, Rachel Ranta, Charles Ray, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Thomas Ruff, Qiu Shi-Hua, Pat Steir, James Turrell, Bill Viola, and Robert Wilson.〔(Indepth Arts News: "The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art" )〕 Topchy was a Visiting Artist/Lecturer on Sacred Art and Architecture at Austin College in Sherman Texas in 2003 and returned to exhibit and lecture in 2015. In 2005 he gave an artist's talk, "The Artists Eye: On Ikon Making" at The Menil Collection. In 2009, Topchy demonstrated the art of buon fresco at The Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum. In 2010 he was a recipient of an Artadia Award and several notable collections feature Topchy's work, such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Ivan Honchar Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, the playwright Edward Albee, and Caroline and the late Walter Hopps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nestor Topchy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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