“Formation of Time” Exhibit at The John David Mooney Foundation

Artist: Aliona Solomadina    Exhibition:  Formation of Time
Consul Yevgeniy Drobot of the Ukrainian Consulate will open the exhibit at
6pm, followed by an artist’s talk.

Valet Parking is available, and parking at a reduced rate in the Sterling
park garage

About the Artist:
Aliona Solomadina is a graphic artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and a Fellow of
the Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellowship, John David Mooney Foundation.

Aliona arrived in Chicago at the beginning of November 2022, with her
mother, Iryna, and her grandmother, Hanna, and as guests of the
JDMFoundation for four months.  Aliona has been in residence in the
Foundation’s studios preparing a digital exhibition of her response to
Chicago Architecture.

Aliona, who has had a distinguished graphic design practice in Kyiv for the
last ten years, recently executed a large-scale digital light installation
in Prague which was a construct of letters influenced by the architecture of
Prague.

In her Chicago exhibition, Formation of Time, Aliona has designed a series
of numbers inspired by Chicago architectural masterpieces.  The artist
reflects on number forms as abstract and concrete signifiers of distance and
time.

The exhibition continues through March 28, 2023.

This project and the Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellowship is totally underwritten
by private donations. The John David Mooney Foundation is most grateful to all the many donors who have made the Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellowship Program possible.  The Foundation
hosted six Ukrainian Artist-Performers from Kharkiv last fall. The Slovo
Theatre Group wrote a play and presented workshops for Chicagoans and staged
two live performances while in residence. They went on to perform the
finished play in Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, and finally at the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts in D.C.

On March 20, The John David Mooney Foundation is bringing Valeriya Tarasenko from Kyiv as the next
Ukrainian Art Bridge Fellow.

To find out more about the John David Mooney Foundation, CLICK HERE.