The Shukovsky Gallery

Web site address: ShukovskyGallery.com                  email: shukovsk@tds.net

My academic training as a scientist (PhD  @ MIT) overshadowed my strong interests in art and photography during my college years. Upon completion of my academic studies I devoted more and more time to my artistic interests, especially to the art of photography. Since 1991 I have migrated to the art of digital collage. This has allowed me to pursue the challenge of combining and integrating a variety images, textures, materials and found objects into a visual statement. I have found that the computer is an excellent tool for the creation of collages using a variety of layered imagery. The digital layering process allows for layer modification, layer masking, and creative blending between layers.

I have been using timeless art images from the past five hundred years in concert with contemporary imagery to create many of my eclectic visual statements. Frequently, I use imagery as a visual metaphor for the state of the human condition. I enjoy searching for the harmony between seemingly opposite pairings such as the contemporary and the classic, the realistic and the abstract, the pristine and the worn, the cherished and the neglected and so forth.   I seek to have the viewer linger when looking at my work and to engage them on any of several levels.

During the many years I lived in the greater Boston area, I exhibited at the Cambridge Art Association,  the Concord Art Association where I was designated as a Distinguished Artist, the Sudbury Art Association, and the New Hampshire Art Association.   More recently my work has been recognized at the 2002 Currier Gallery of Art NHAA Juried Exhibit, the 2001 Joan Dunfey Juried Exhibit in Portsmouth, NH, the 2001 Sharon Arts Center Biennial Exhibit in Peterborough, N.H. , the  1999 New Hampshire Institute of Art Biennial in Manchester, N. H., and the Lotte Jacoby Award for best in show at the 1999 Parfitt Photography Exhibit held at the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, N.H..