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QNYC Event Highlight: Repetition in Design

Gennadyi Gurman has many talents. As Queens Botanical Garden’s supervising museum instructor, he teaches ethnobotany, writes curriculum, promotes green living and studies ecology. Repetition in Design, a series of oil paintings on canvas currently on display at QBG’s award-winning Visitor & Administration Building, displays Gurman’s talent with a paintbrush. While the pieces have familiar forms…

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by itsinqueens
01/29/2013 1 minute 0
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Gennadyi Gurman has many talents. As Queens Botanical Garden’s supervising museum instructor, he teaches ethnobotany, writes curriculum, promotes green living and studies ecology. Repetition in Design, a series of oil paintings on canvas currently on display at QBG’s award-winning Visitor & Administration Building, displays Gurman’s talent with a paintbrush.

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While the pieces have familiar forms from nature, some progress towards dimension and movement, while others specify the simplicity of the flat canvas. Gurman, who likes to use reclaimed frames and other materials from abandoned pictures and paintings, explains that his paintings are not determined until the shapes themselves start to build their own images, hence the concept of “repetition in design.”

Repetition in Design
Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street, Flushing
Tuesday, January 29 until April 15
8am – 6pm | Free

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