Exhibition
Olga Bajusová
Illustrations and Prints
An exhibition of Bajusová’s prolific children’s book illustrations, animation sets,
art portfolios and etchings.
February 26th – April 10th 2010
Opening Reception Feb 26, 6-9 PM
Special Screening of animation at
Squeaky Wheel Sat. March 13, 8 PM
Olga Bajusova is an award-winning illustrator of children’s books as well as a noted printmaker who has exhibited in Italy, Portugal, Romania, Canada, the United States and Japan. Born and educated in Slovakia, Ms. Bajusova and her husband and fellow artist Jozef Bajus are now residents of Buffalo, NY.
This exhibition showcases Bajusova’s prolific children's book illustrations which evoke a fantastical world of faeries, creatures and landscapes with vibrant colors that are not fully captured in the over thirty children's books that have made her work iconic in her home country of Slovakia and beyond. She has worked with Slovak publishers “Buvik” and “Mlade Leta” as well as the “Budisin” publishing house in Germany.
In 1997 Olga Bajusova received the Mlade Leta Publishing Prize and the prestigious Ludovit Fulla Award and was elected to the International Board of Books for Young People. Her etchings offer a different side of her work in that they feature parallel yet contrasting organic abstract landscapes as monochromatic prints with subtle detail and bold emotional gestures.
Along with the illustrations and prints will be a special screening (to be held at Squeaky Wheel, Date & Time TBA) of a perennial Central European holiday classic animation "Strigonove Vianoce" (Christmas Wizard) which was illustrated by Bajusova. Sets and stills from this animation will also be on Exhibit for the duration of the show.
A special edition restrike of Bajusova’s etching will be printed at the WNY Book Arts Center’s community printshop and offered for sale exclusively during the exhibition.
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Western NY Book Arts Center
468 Washington St.
Buffalo NY 14203
Web: http://www.wnybookarts.org
Hours: Wed-Sat 12-6
Phone: 716 348 1430
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Additional information about Olga Bajusova
Olga Bajusova was born in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia. She received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she studied print making and book illustration with renowned Professor Albin Brunovsky.
She is an award-winning artist - illustrator of children’s books, original drawings and animated films. Her illustrations have been published in over thirty children’s books in Europe.
In 1993 she was a visiting artist at the New Brunswick Collage of Art and Design in Fredericton, Canada. She made an animated film titled The Christmas Wizard and numerous illustrated books including: The Kingdom of Flowers, Don’t forget the Fairies, Christmas Wizard, An Alphabet for little Barbara, The Golden Gate, Girl of the Sun, Five Fingers on the Hand (a book written for children with hearing and speech disabilities) and the Owl of the Mountain.
Olga Bajusova participated at the group exhibitions in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, Slovenia, USA, Canada, and Japan. She had an exhibition at the Bailey Library at Slippery Rock University, PA, The Stuyvesant Gallery in Buffalo, NY, The Lehigh University - DuBois Gallery in Bethlehem, PA and in 2005 in Upton Hall Gallery at Buffalo State College. Recently her works were on display at Indigo Art Gallery and at Art Dialogue Gallery in Buffalo.
Her illustrated books have won many awards including The Most Beautiful Book in Czechoslovakia in 1987 and The Most Beautiful Book of the Year in 1994. In 1997, Mrs. Bajusova received the Mlade Leta publishing prize and was elected to the International Board of Books of Young People (IBBY), an International Illustrators’ Association.
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