JKK FINE ARTS Gallery of European Art The Mews Courtyard 594 Valley Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 www.jkkfinearts.com Tel. (973) 744 0111 JKK FINE ARTS proudly presents  Eastern European Autumn   Group show of young and established artists from Eastern Europe Works by Polish artists: Zdzislaw Beksinski, Jan Lebenstein, Barbara Falender, Michal Swider, Aleksandra K. Nowak, Marek Koczela, Piotr Woroniec, Darek Nowakowski, Krzysztof Skorczewski, Lubomir Tomaszewski, and Tomasz Misztal; Ukrainian painter Valeriy Skrypka, and Lithuanian graphic artist Egidijus Rudinskas.   October 3rd to November 11th, 2006   JKK FINE ARTS, Gallery of European Art, is dedicated to cultivation and admiration of the traditions and values of Fine Arts. It promotes contemporary symbolist, expressionist, figurative art based on artist’s education, experience, devotion, and talent. Art, which represents the best quality of form and great aesthetical subtlety. JKK Fine Arts takes pride in showing original paintings, drawings, sculptures, and  limited hand-pulled prints by established European artists, with emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. The exhibition Eastern European Autumn will include works of established Polish painters, as: Jan Lebenstein of Paris, whose paintings are included into collection of MoMA in NYC, SFMoA in San Francisco, and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, Zdzislaw Beksinski, famous  visionary painter, murdered last year in Warsaw, whose work is admired by such artists as Clive Barker, H.R. Giger, George Lucas. Sculptures by Prof. Lubomir Tomaszewski, founder of artistic movements: In Tune With Nature and Emotionalism,  are included into most important Polish national museums, and in private collections of Rockefeller Family, Robert Marston, Alan Potasch, William Donaldson, and NECCA Museum, are among those that are deeply appreciated by visitors in our gallery. Sculptures by Barbara Falender of Warsaw, one of the most famous Polish contemporary sculptors, next to Magdalena Abakanowicz, will be featured with a series of erotic pieces beautifully executed in bronze and marble. On view will be also new copper-plate engravings by Prof. Krzysztof Skorczewski of Krakow, lecturer at European Academy of Art in Warsaw. His works are included into collection of MoMA, NYC, the Albertina, Vienna, the Kunsthalle, Bremen. Younger artists will include: Aleksandra K. Nowak, who will be featured with another individual show in famous CFM Gallery in SoHo, NYC in March 2007,  Michal Swider, graduate of Krakow’s Academy of Fine Arts, recipient of A. Siemianowicz Scholarship, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Montreal 1990, and Stage Internazionale Sull Fresco Award, Fabriano, Italy 1993, and West Coast sculptor and painter, Tomasz Misztal, well-known in Poland for his many church commissions. His sculpture dedicated to Solidarity movement was given to Pope John Paul II and is now in the collection of Vatican Museum. Visitors will have a chance to see newest works by other Polish artists: drawings of Marek Koczela of Toronto, paintings of Darek Nowakowski from NYC, and sculptures by Piotr Woroniec from Poland. Works of one the most important Lithuanian graphic artist, Egidijus Rudinskas, a professor of graphic arts at Kaunas Art Institute, Lithuania, will be shown in the gallery. We hope it will be a feast for art lovers, especially those, who admire and collect limited edition, hand-pulled prints, in which gallery specialize. New works by Ukrainian painter, Valeriy Skrypka, who is represented exclusively by our gallery, and his beautifully edited album with an introduction by Prof. Sam Hunter of Princeton University will be available at the gallery.   The brochure is available in PDF format