Yuri Gorbachev

Born 1948

Yuri Gorbachev, Russian/American (born-1948) illustrator, ceramist and painter, arrived in the United States from the former USSR in 1991.

Established in Russia as a ceramics artist, Gorbachev expanded his energy into painting oil on canvas.

He was inspired by Karl Faberge and the Byzantine sensibility, nad uses the unusual techniques derived from his extensive work with ceramics to create colorful, textured canvases in oil and gold. His subjects include Russian winter landscapes and interiors with fruit and animals as well as mythological figures and more recently series of paintings from Russian and Balinese icons to Russian Czars and the evolution of man. Since 1994, "STOLICHNAYA", has commissioned Gorbachev to design their annual Christmas ad for the famous Russian Vodka, which appears in more than one- hundred magazines around the world. On March 14, 1996,

Mr. Gorbachev received a commission by the United Nations to create an original work in conjunction with the release of the U.N. stamp "Endangered Species". U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali received Mr. Gorbachev's rendition of "Green Parrot On Red Flower" at a preview exhibition. The artist's work is represented in the permanent collections of Mikhail Barishnikov, William Saroyan, Armand Hammer, Michel Roux, Mikhail Gorbachev, Eduard Shevarnadze, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator James Jeffords, philanthropist and collector David Tang of Hong Kong, Minister Joop of Indonesia, the Baroness Dunn DBE JP, Hong Kong, Marcello Mastroianni and Vice President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines among others. His work is represented in the permanent collection of the Louvre, the Kremlin Museum and more than 20 museums worldwide. (Thanks to The Caitlyn Gallery).