Photo: Craig Hinkel   Igor de Kansky Who's Who in American Art Painter/Sculptor East meets West and fuses in the works of Igor de Kansky. The immediate and obvious evidence of this fusion is his use of the ancient Oriental technique of lacquer to create paintings that fall within the visual mainstream of abstract expressionism. His working environment has been the West, Paris and California. His technique is from the East but his heritage is Byzantine and this gives the paintings a special mystical glow. Beyond the fact that Igor de Kansky is a superb craftsman using an unusual and difficult technique at a time when many artists have discarded craftsmanship, he is also a deeply sensitive artist making a statement in today's terms. Jae Carmichael, Director Museum Division, Pacificulture Born: Nice, France, May 19, 1926 Study: Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliques, diploma 1945 Ecole des Beaux Arts University, Paris, 1946 Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, with Othon Friez, 1946 Commissions: Mosaic, Commissioned by AC Martin Ventura, California 1963 Mural, St. Vincent's Hospital Los Angeles 1972 St. Vibiana's Cathedral Los Angeles 1975 Bas relief wood, Orthopedic Hospital Los Angeles, 1982 Bas relief wood, Claremont McKenna College Claremont, California, 1984 Exhibitions: New York Museum of Modern Craft 1961 California Design Show Pasadena Art Museum Pasadena, California 1962, 1965, 1968 Otis Art Institute Los Angeles, California 1965 Valley House Gallery Dallas, Texas 1967 One Man Show, Woodbury University Burbank, California 1989 Retrospective, Woodbury University Burbank, California 1991