Exhibition List
1983
Roosevelt Island Artists Association
New York City
1986
“Contemporary Spiritual Art”
Paul VI Institute for the Arts
Washington, D. C.
1987
“5th Annual National Show”
Paul VI Institute for the Arts
Washington, D. C.
1990
“Art in Exile” Nexus Foundation
Philadelphia, PA
1992
Lolita’s Delight
New York City
1993
Lumina Gallery
New York City
1993
“Life Drawing Studies” Society of Illustrators
New York City
1993
China Club Exhibition of Russian Art
Hong Kong, SAR
1994
Mimi Ferzt Gallery
New York City
1994
Great Neck Committee for Soviet Jewry
Great Neck, NY
1995
Emerging Collectors Gallery
New York City
1995
“Holocaust Memorial Exhibit”
Education Alliance
New York City
1997
Russian Fine Arts Association
New York City
1998
“New York, New York”
Tweed Gallery, City Hall
New York City
1998
Zalman Gallery
New York City
1999
Union of Hebrew Congregations
New York City
1999
Arts Space, Westview
New York City
2000, 2001, 2003
Starbucks Coffee Houses, Resident Artist
New York City
2002-2003
Whimsy Blue Gallery
New York City
2005
Belenky Brothers Gallery
New York City
2009
“Queensboro Bridge 100 Year Anniversary”
Gallery RIVAA
New York City
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Alex Gamburg Biography
Alex Gamburg was born in Moscow in 1932. In 1950, he entered the studio of sculptor Sergei Orlov, a leading figure in the revival of Russian Art Deco after World War II. Under Orlov, Alex studied sculpture and participated in the monumental commissions of his teacher. After a two-year apprenticeship, he entered the Stroganov Institute of Art and Design, the oldest art school in the country and the birthplace of the Russian avant-garde.
In 1957, Alex left Moscow for the Central Asian Republics of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. He spent five years in the region, observing its medieval culture and studying ancient architecture and mosaics. While there, Alex worked as a set designer for a variety of performance houses ranging from dramatic theater to opera to puppet theaters.
Returning to Moscow in 1962, he became a leading illustrator and graphic designer of books, magazines, newspapers, and national advertising campaigns while working at the largest Soviet publishing house, APN (Agency Press News). He served as Art Director at the APN until immigrating to the United States.
Since arriving in New York in 1974, Alex has continued to work as an illustrator for such publications as the New York Times Sunday Book Review, NY Press, Seven Days, World Over, Twilight Zones, and a number of independent publishing houses in the US, Israel, England, and Italy. In 1982, his illustrated version of Ivan Barkov’s classic Russian folktale, “Luka Mudischev” (translated by Anne Peet and Sharon Miller) was published and distributed worldwide and translated in multiple languages.
Between 1979 and 1981, Alex worked as a set designer for the Folsbiene Theater, an eminent Jewish Theater in New York. He created sets for such productions as “A Goldfadden Dream” and “The Klezmer and His Melody.” The New York Times reviews of the latter production noted: “Alex Gamburg’s set contributes to the mood of a folk tale.”
In 1984, Alex proposed a monument to be erected in Rome, Italy, to commemorate the transit of Russian refugees through the city. The proposal elicited the support of Ugo Cardinal Poletti, Vicar of Rome who noted that “the model submitted is one of intense and dramatic realism.”
Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s and into the early 2000s, Alex focused on producing art works for a series of exhibitions in New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Hong Kong. In 1998, Alex Gamburg was one of the select few Russian émigré artists included in a citywide exhibition of immigrant artists at the Tweed Gallery in New York’s City Hall.
In recent years, Alex has been focusing his energies on his drawing and illustration work, complimenting earlier explorations of graphic intensity in painting and sculpture.