Boris spivak biography
Boris Spivak, Professor, Contact Information: spivak@, , Personal site, B, Fields of Interest: Condensed Matter..
Ziama and Lisa had two children: Boris, born in , and Fania, born in During the Great Patriotic War Ziama was recruited to the army and perished.Boris immigrated to the USA in November He talked to us about it at one of the early Symposia. Not knowing English, he worked here first as a janitor, and the self-portraits that he painted at the time, show someone almost invisible.
How do you start a new life? How do you communicate who you are and what you are worth?
Boris Spivak's career began less then a year ago.
How do you balance being an artist with supporting a family in a new country?
Looking at Boris' sculptures, the immediacy of his psychological and existential processes come out to grab us. One of these sculptures is called "Sins," or "Despair." It is in roughly carved marble of a naked man clutching his head in his hands; his agony is heart-wrenching.
Boris used sculptures to communicate his experiences, as well as his ideas and philosophical search (see for example "My Generation.").He did a lot of commissioned work, portraits and life size groups ("The Fathers of Issaquah"), and he tried his hand at more decorative pieces, but it is his humanism and the