Georgy Kurasov "Tango Night" Original Painting

"Tango Night" by Georgy Kurasov. Framed original oil on canvas with gold leaf, measures 45" x 34". Painted wood frame, black with silver trim.

Georgy Kurasov was born in 1958 in the USSR, in what was then Leningrad. He still lives and works in the same place, but now the country is Russia and the city is called St Petersburg. Without any effort on his part whatsoever, Georgy seems to have emigrated from one surreal country to another. 

In 1993 his works were first exhibited in the USA. Since then, Georgy Kurasov has exhibited and sold his paintings exclusively in North America.  Kurasov knows there are plenty of people who, noting the absence of his works at Russian exhibitions, think he has emigrated.

Americans see Georgy Kurasov as a Russian artist, Russians as an American artist. Painters think he is a sculptor. Sculptors are sure he is a painter.  And when Georgy Kurasov thinks of it, he rather likes this borderline existence. Perhaps it what makes it possible to be himself, to be unlike anyone else.