Nikifor

This book is a catalog for the exhibition "NYKIFOR", which is being held at the Ukrainian Museum in New York from January 19 to April 15, 2023. It includes a foreword by the museum's director Peter Doroshenko, an essay by the exhibition curator Prof. Myroslava Mudrak, a biography of the artist, Nikifor's works and a list of them (149 items) from the museum's collection. All of Nikifor's works are printed in color.
Design by Volodymyr Havrysh.
Nikifor Epifanii Drovniak (1895-1968) was born in Krynytsia (now Poland) to a Lemko mother with serious hearing and speech disabilities, orphaned during World War I. In his hometown of Krynytsia, he was initially ridiculed as an eccentric. Nikifor lived most of his life in physical and emotional isolation. Art became his outlet and main occupation, giving meaning to life. Among the themes of Nikifor's work are self-portraits and panoramas of Krynytsia with its baths and Orthodox and Catholic churches. Each image is a kaleidoscope of the familiar and the unfamiliar.