The Byrne Gallery announces its 30th Anniversary this year with a celebration and exhibition of vivid oil and enamel paintings by internationally acclaimed artist Yuri Gorbachev.
The Byrne Gallery welcomes Yuri Gorbachev for his 22nd consecutive exhibition in Middleburg, Virginia. The gallery will feature some of his classic paintings alongside new works from his 2025 museum tour. This year, he has also shown at the Chang Gallery in Seoul, Korea, and at the Sed Arte Palace Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia.
The exhibition begins on November 4th and continues through December 30th.
The opening reception will be held on November 8th, 2025, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The exhibition is open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.
With over 50 years of art exhibitions worldwide, Yuri Gorbachev has had more than 200 solo exhibitions. His paintings have been exhibited on the continents of North America, South America, Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa. More than two billion people worldwide have seen his magnificent artwork in art galleries, museums, on TV and in hundreds of magazines and newspapers like Elle, GQ, and The New York Times. Many of these also carried his most famous advertisement for Stolichnaya Vodka.
In addition, Yuri’s work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums around the world, including the Louvre Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and the Russian National Museum of St. Petersburg. His paintings have hung at The White House and at the United Nations. Numerous important private collections throughout the world include his paintings and sculpture.
This year, a portion of the sales from the exhibition will be donated to the families of Ukraine through The International Rescue Committee (IRC) for Ukrainian Refugees. This organization is consistently awarded top marks by charity watchdog groups for efficient use of contributions and overall impact.
More about Yuri Gorbachev:
Many local collectors may know that at the age of twenty-seven, Yuri Gorbachev became a member of the prestigious Art Union of the former USSR. Since then, he has established himself as one of Russia’s most distinguished modern painters, before moving to New York in 1991. Yuri is now a proud and devoted United States citizen.
Inspired by the brilliant, jeweled colors of Byzantine art, the works of Faberge, and Russia’s Icon heritage, Yuri creates colorful, richly textured canvases in oil and gold leaf. His personally joyful and meditative artistic world combines memories of his Russian boyhood and the deep tradition of Russian Orthodox Icon painting. His art blends a radiant kaleidoscope of folk celebrations, street fairs, circuses, fairy tales, animals, snowy winter landscapes, and images of the Romanov dynasty.
Since 2011, Yuri’s whimsical paintings have illustrated both Absolut and Stolichnaya Vodka advertisements appearing in hundreds of magazines around the world. In 2010, the St. Petersburg Museum of Urban Art & Sculpture hosted a major exhibition of his work. Tens of thousands of Russians, especially young people, attended the exhibit and broke all attendance records for the museum. In 2011, The Russian National Museum, the most important museum of Russian art worldwide, accepted Gorbachev's major oil painting Tsar Nicholas and his Family into their permanent collection. Yuri’s museum tour continued through 2015, with the National Gallery of Fine Art Plovdiv, Bulgaria; The Kumu Art Museum of Estonia; and The Literature Museum of Odessa, Ukraine. Future exhibitions are scheduled for major museums in Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other European cities, including Helsinki and Monaco.
In 2015, The National Gallery of Armenia obtained one of Gorbachev’s paintings for their permanent collection. The gallery houses one of the most prestigious Russian art collections in the world and includes such artists as Chagall, Malevich, Kandinsky, and Filonov. The gallery selected a work entitled Adam and Eve for their permanent collection. The work was their first acquisition of Russian art in over ten years. In 2016, Yuri began his “World Museum Tour,” including a recent show of his new collection in Odessa, Ukraine.
In both 2011 and 2012, Gorbachev had the honor of being commissioned to design a new label for Stolichnaya Red Vodka. His design is derived from his painting Four Elements.
Please join us to celebrate our 30th Anniversary and Yuri’s continued success!
The Byrne Gallery is located at 7 West Washington Street in Middleburg, Virginia.
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; and Monday and Tuesday by appointment only.
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