January 10 - 14, 2018
Los Angeles Art Show
Convention Center
July 26 – September 20, 2015
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Juried Exhibition
Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
April 13-21, May 1-15, 2015
Digital Display of Artworks celebrating the beauty of our natural environment
Digital Billboards at 9039 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
May 2 - June 3, 2014
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery
“STARS From HEAVEN”
New York, NY
January 28, 2013
The 2013 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Writer’s Guild Theater, Beverly Hills, CA
January 18 – 22, 2012
Affordable Art Fair
Los Angeles, CA
November 2011 – Summer 2012
“I HAVE THE RIGHT”
Presented by Picture Art Foundation
California State University, Dominguez Hills
November 3 – 6, 2011
18th Annual SOFA CHICAGO 2011
Navy Pier’s Festival Hall
May – October 2011
On Being Human: Love, Faith, Shame and Hope
Presented by Picture Art Foundation
California State University, Dominguez Hills
January 19-23, 2011
16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show
Los Angeles , CA , Convention Center
December 16-19, 2010
Salon 2010 de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts au Carrousel du Louvre
Paris, France
August 3 – 16, 2010
United in Art
Brazilian Academy of Arts and Culture
Sao Paulo, Brazil
April 21 – 25, 2010
Art CIGE Beijing
Contemporary Art Fair
Beijing, China
January 9 – April 4, 2010
Art Institute Arizona – Solo Exhibition Sonora Desert Museum
Tucson, AZ
December 2009
Art Rouge Gallery
Miami, Fl
December, 2009
Sculpt Miami Art Fair
Miami, Florida
September 2008 – January 2009
Lizzadro Museum
Elmhurst, Illinois
October 2008
Millionaire Fair
Munich, Germany
November 2007-January 2008
Shenere Velt Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
August 2007
PetSmart Charities Fundraiser
Hancock Park , CA
October-November 2007
Garden & Design Showcase at Historic Greystone Estate
Beverly Hills , CA
November 2006
Pacific Design Center
West Hollywood CA
June 2006
Studio Gallery
Newport Beach CA
December 2005
Visions Fine Art Gallery
Sedona AZ
November 2005
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Simi Valley CA
July 2005
City Gallery
Thousand Oaks CA
March 2005
The Armory Show 2005
New York NY
November - December 2004
Pacific Design Center
West Hollywood CA
September 2004
Broadway Gallery
'CHIMERA' - Solo Exhibition
New York NY
November 1999 - January 2000
Bergamot Station
Santa Monica CA
November 2002
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles CA
June 2003
The Russian Consulate General in San Francisco
San Francisco
June 2003 - April 2004
Gemological Institute of America ( GIA ) Museum
Carlsbad CA
December 2003
Marc Mastey Gallery
Los Angeles CA
PRESS
“The Magical World of Ilya Schar”
“Each artwork is remarkable in its precision, passion, and beauty.”
~ GIA’s ( Gemological Institute of America ) Museum Director
“A Gem of a Painting”
“Paintings are some of the last handmade and therefore valuable objects in our culture. This is even truer when the paint is replaced with gemstones.”
~ Simone Cappa, NY Arts.
“Last Chance: Ilya Schar’s Mortal Colors”
“In our moment of history, the painter who grinds his own pigment from minerals is making a gesture of self-definition. It is a gesture of dissent from mass-production, as is painting altogether. And one of Schar’s greatest strengths is his independence and power as a colorist.
Similarly, Redon’s late-nineteenth century flower paintings are a last bloom of the natural accord between human beings and the biosphere, but here is the same fascination and intimacy of those pictures in the flower paintings of Ilya Schar. It’s as if these great moments in European painting, prior to the Second and the First World Wars respectively, were reborn in the work of an original new painter.”
~ Jamey Hecht, New York Arts Magazine.
“Ilya Schar Returns Glamour to Broadway”
“The ten visceral, gleaming images currently on display at Broadway Gallery have all the gusto and brilliance of Gauguin’s tropical masterpieces. Schar courageously embraces an unlikely material and celebrates the possibilities of his newfound medium.”
~ Annie Poon, NY Arts.
PRESS QUOTES
Zurich, Switzerland, March 2013
Das Schweizer Magazin Fuer Verwaltungsraete
Summer 2010
Grout Magazine
Modern Mosaic Excellence
British Association for Modern Mosaic
January/February 2010, Vol. 85, No.1
California Gem Artist
By Susan Robinson
Rocks and Minerals Magazine
Vol.24, Issue 5, September/October 2008
Geology Today
The Geologists’ Association and The Geological Society of London
November/Decemb4, Vol. 9 No.11/12er 200
Ilya Schar Returns Glamour to Broadway
By Annie Poon
NY Arts Magazine
May/June 2004, Vol. 9 No5/6
A Gem of a Painting
By Simone Cappa
NY Arts Magazine
July/August 2004, Vol. 9 No7/8
Last Chance: Ilya Schar’s Mortal Colors
By Jamey Hecht
NY Arts Magazine
Vol. 12, No 4, Fall 2003
Ilya Schar Exhibit Displays Creative Use of Colorful Gem Materials
By Tara J. McKenna
The Loupe, GIA World News
158, 000, August 21, 2003
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