Gallery E
A MANIFEST FOR THE MOON
The Lunar Codex uses digital and analog technology to preserve art, books, music, and more, enclosed in time capsules and launched to the Moon. It is a message-in-a-bottle to the future.
Curatorial Notes
This Gallery showcases a selection of works from Olesya Dzhurnayeva, born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. In 1989 she moved to Ukraine, living and working in Kyiv. City life and the wonder of the everyday are the subject of her art, particularly her celebrated linocuts, which display a mastery of technique.
Working only in black and white, her compositions rely on cut line density to define a narrative nuance of shadow, brightness, and reflected light. These works have been exhibited around the world and honored with numerous prizes, including the 2019 Grand Prix Prix Félix Bracquemond in printmaking at 158th Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris.
In February 2022, she and her daughters fled Kyiv, amidst the devastation of the country. Still in Ukraine, she writes:
"My art is about contemplation, about light... Now this is not possible. I am deprived of my usual tools, place of work, home. But the desire to live and work is stronger. I gathered my thoughts and do what keeps me afloat. A first woodcut in my life, printed with Ukrainian black soil. This is about the window of my hope, about the windows of all the destroyed houses and lives... about the fact that we cannot be broken, we cannot be defeated..."
With one piece, and then another, Dzhurnayeva continued her art - with the tools around her, found wood, coarse gouges, soil - despite everything around her, defining through her art a human spirit that is unconquerable.
This is what the Lunar Codex is about, that human spirit which compels us despite everything against us to search for meaning, to survive, to create - to give evidence to the future that we were here.
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Works are identified by respective launch mission and Lunar Codex collection as follows:
AM1 - Artemis 1 Mission (The Orion Collection)
PM1 - Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 1 (The Peregrine Collection)
IM1 - Intuitive Machines Nova-C Mission 1 (The Nova Collection)
GM1 - Astrobotic Griffin Mission 1 (The Polaris Collection)
WHOLEHEARTED
Hari Lualhati (2015) - IM1
- Oil on canvas
- 24” x 24”
- Private collection
WHALES
Mia Tavonatti (2005) - IM1
- Glass mosaic
- 48" x 35"
- Private collection
CHARLOTTE, NIGHT LIGHT
Lisa Maria Reese (2021) - IM1
- Chromogenic print
- Part of the Charlotte series
- Private collection
REMINISCENCE
Oceana Rain Stuart (2016) - IM1
- Bronze sculpture on granite base
- 9" x 6" x 6"
- Part of the Fragments Collection
- Private collection
ROSARY
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
LOVE ENCOMPASSES
Ramon Orlina (2014) - IM1
- Carved lavender crystal
- 8.5” x 9” x 3.5”
- The Argo Collection
MADONNA AND CHILD
Benjamin Cabrera (2015) - IM1
- Acrylic on paper
- 9" x 12"
- The Argo Collection
CONCATENATIONS
Rosario Bitanga (1985) - IM1
- Oil on canvas
- 26" x 32”
- The Windrift Collection
FLYING DAKINI
Agnes Arellano (2014) - IM1
- Life-sized sculptural installation in plaster and crushed marble
- Private collection
MENACING LOVE
Marcel Antonio (2015) - IM1
- Acrylic on canvas
- 60" x 60"
THE STARS AWAKEN A CERTAIN REVERENCE
Riel Jaramillo Hilario (2015) - IM1
- Carved and engraved polychrome
- 36" x 63.4" x 3.5"
LIFE FORMS WITH GLORIOUS FEELINGS
Hazel Bartram-Birchenough (2021) - IM1
- Digital painting
- Print or tapestry up to 25' x 34’
- Selected for exhibition at the My Virtual Blaffer exhibition, an exhibit held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, hosted by the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON
Sheryl Luxenberg (25 April 2019 - 25 October 2020) - IM1
- Acrylic and charcoal on linen canvas
- Three panels, each 72"x 36"
- Inspired by the IBEX Collection
- From Pain to Paint. Canadian hyperreal painter Sheryl Luxenburg paints the project of her lifetime to raise awareness against sexual abuse
GRAVITY
Rebecca Léveillé (2021) - IM1
- Oil on canvas
- 36" x 48"
MANIFEST
DAILY AFFAIRS
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2020) - GM1
- Linocut, edition of 20
- 7" x 5-1/2"
DAY BY DAY
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2020) - GM1
- Linocut, edition of 20
- 7" x 5-1/2"
TAKE YOUR TIME
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2020) - GM1
- Linocut, edition of 20
- 11" x 7-7/8"
TWILIGHT
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2016) - GM1
- Linocut, edition of 10
- 15-1/2" x 23-5/8"
I WILL REMEMBER
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2020) - GM1
- Linocut, edition of 20
- 7-7/8" x 7-7/8"
EVERYTHING DISAPPEARS
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2021) - GM1
- Linocut, edition of 20
- 19-7/8" x 30-1/2"
THE ABYSS
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2022) - GM1
- Woodcut, edition of 10
- Printed outside Kyiv with Ukrainian black soil
TEARS
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2022) - GM1
- Woodcut, edition of 10
- Printed outside Kyiv with Ukrainian black soil
THE HOUSE WHOSE LIGHTS WENT OUT FOREVER
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2022) - GM1
- Woodcut, edition of 10
- Printed outside Kyiv with Ukrainian black soil
WE STAND ON OUR OWN LAND
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2022) - GM1
- Woodcut, edition of 10
- Printed outside Kyiv with Ukrainian black soil
WINDOW OF HOPE
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2022) - GM1
- Woodcut, edition of 10
- Printed outside Kyiv with Ukrainian black soil
SPRING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WAR
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2022) - GM1
- Woodcut, edition of 10
- Printed in Kyiv with Ukrainian black soil
- Dzhuraeva's six woodcuts were chosen to be part of Terra Libera, an exhibit of Ukrainian art curated by Alexander Zhuravlev, under the supervision of Italian art critic Giorgio Gregorio Grasso, for the 59th Venice Biennale in May 2022.
MY UKRAINE
Olesya Dzhurayeva (2011) - GM1
- Linocut on brown wove paper, edition of 20
- 30-1/2" x 19-3/4"
- The Ukraine is a series of bicycles produced at a plant in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city after Kyiv. This was Dzhurayeva's first bicycle, the means for her discovering the length and breadth and wonder of her country.