Join us for an evening of art, music, and conversation celebrating the opening of Paintings by Elena Kalman: Catastrophe and What Survives, a powerful new exhibition of recent works by Ukrainian-born artist Elena Kalman.

Throughout the evening, guests will have the opportunity to explore the exhibition, hear from artist Elena Kalman and TMORA Curator Dr. Masha Zavialova, and enjoy live music by Duo CORDA — cellist Jacqueline Ultan and guitarist Pavel Jany — whose repertoire blends jazz, classical, and international music traditions. Curated sweets and tea will be served.

Presented in TMORA’s Mezzanine Gallery, the exhibition reflects on moments of disruption and what endures beyond them. Kalman’s paintings depict landscapes, roads, and imagined environments marked by instability — falling trees, fractured structures, and distant explosions — alongside images of water, sky, and terrain that persist. Created during a time shaped by war and ongoing global uncertainty, the works place scenes of rupture in direct relation to the natural world.

Image credit (above):
Elena Kalman
Disaster and Flight, 2025
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas
72 x 40 in.

Saturday, July 18 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM (Doors open at 5:45 PM)
Artist and Curator remarks will be at 6:30 PM
TICKETS: $15 General Admission | FREE for TMORA Members

Elena Kalman received her Master of Architecture degree from the Moscow Architecture Institute, the birthplace of Russian Constructivism, and her undergraduate degree in art from the Kyiv Art Institute. She immigrated to the United States in 1979 and founded Elena Kalman Architects in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1988. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States. In 2023, TMORA presented Ukraine Defiant: Paintings by Elena Kalman, a series sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The artist writes, “My work is shaped by the tension between catastrophe and continuity, between the moments when the world seems to fracture and the deeper forces that endure beyond every crisis.”