IVAN MITSYK

Ivan Mitsyk - A graduate of the Kiev Art Institute and the Odessa Grekov Fine Arts Institute, Mitsyk earned a graduate degree in art restoration and conservation, receiving honors from the Kiev Art Review Board and the Moscow Art Commission. He has twenty years of experience in his field, eight of these in the United States, restoring and conserving art and art objects for galleries and churches. Mitsyk's original works include original icons, paintings and murals fo rebuilding interiors both church and secular. He has exhibited his works in many places of the United States. Mitsyk is an expert in restorative and conservative work on 18th century paintings both genre and ecclesiastical. He specializes in work of the Byzantine era including icons, paintings and murals proficient in the use of gold leaf, egg tempera, oil and acrylic renovation. He has restored iconostases and frescoes in churches both here and abroad. Mitsyk is experienced in museum work, having organized the conservation and presentation of museum exhibits at The State Museum of the Ukraine. He restores sculpture and replicates faux mosaic and marble