The Wedding Dress, Oil on Canvas, 1995, 25 x 27” (framed)

Borys Plaksii

b. 21 August 1937 in Smila. He studied at Dnipropetrovske Art School and graduated from the Kiev State Art Institute (1965). In the 1960s, together with A. Horska and V. Zaretsky, he created decorative murals for various restaurants and buildings in Kiev. Because of his unorthodox depictions and because he signed a political petition in 1968, he was denied membership in the Union of Artists. Plaskii survived by ghost-painting for officially recognized artists. The first exhibition of his works was held in Toronto in 1991.