History
Founded in 1971 by Dr. Achilles Chreptowsky, Konstantin Milonadis and Mychajlo Urban, UIMA is located in the heart of Ukrainian Village in Chicago's West Town neighborhood. Without the dedicated efforts of UIMA's pioneering founders, much of the progressive and iconoclastic art created in the 1970s and 80s in Ukraine would have been lost. This work resisted the dominant Soviet aesthetic, and as a consequence many pieces were suppressed or destroyed and the creators were blacklisted or jailed. As a direct result of this early bravery and vision, UIMA is home to one of the world's largest collections of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American abstract and minimalist works from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Specialties
Modern Contemporary Art :-)