The Art of Uri Dowbenko - Curriculum Vitae

     Artist, Writer & Publisher Uri Dowbenko was born in Chicago in 1951 to Ukrainian parents who came to America after surviving the Nazi German and Soviet Russian onslaughts. Raised in Western Pennsylvania, his artistic and writing career began in high school, when he founded an unsanctioned politically incorrect newspaper called “The Lamb,” an alternative to the official school paper called “The Ram.” He went to school at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Vienna in Austria. At age 19 he took an “early retirement,” rounding out his education by taking a cross-country journey across Europe and Africa - from Egypt to East Africa, then to Senegal, which took a year to complete. He says that now he has the rest of his life to work.

     In 1973 he moved to San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Art Institute and the School of Holography, where he became a holography instructor and was involved in producing many of the first white light and multiplex holograms ever made. His “Exhibit of White Light Holograms“ (three-dimensional photographic images made with lasers and mirrors) was shown at Foothill College, San Jose State University, California Institute of the Arts, and Seattle Art Museum.

     Dowbenko’s book Homegrown Holography: How to Make Holograms in Your Own Low Cost Studio (Watson Guptill) was one of the first practical handbooks on the art and science of holography ever published.

     Since then, he has worked as a designer, photographer, and writer in his advertising, marketing and PR firm with clients, primarily in Los Angeles and Orange County, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area. He has successfully produced many corporate brochures, websites, and sales promotion and marketing programs.

     In 1987 he moved to Montana, where he continued his advertising, marketing and publicity business, commuting to LA and Northern California to meet with clients.

     Dowbenko’s writing includes hundreds of articles, movie reviews, interviews and investigative writing pieces. He is considered one of Alternative Media’s foremost writers and media analysts and a distinctive voice of modern American journalism.

     In 2000, he became the founder of Alternative Media websites -- Conspiracy Planet, Al Martin Raw, Steamshovel Press and Conspiracy Digest, as well as the founder and publisher of National Liberty Press, which has published The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider by Al Martin.

     Described as one of the “hottest books in print,” The Conspirators by government whistleblower Al Martin is his memoir and a firsthand account of his experiences with the Bush Cabal, most notably his former associates, Oliver North and General Richard Secord. Nexus Magazine has hailed the book as a “sensational expose” and it has been called a “tour de force” by Eye Spy Magazine.

     Dowbenko’s most recent book, Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy, has been described as “compelling” and “well sourced, packed with new revelations.” It's available at Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores nationwide. His latest book is called Hoodwinked Watching Movies With Eyes Wide Open, a collection of the most politically incorrect moview reviews ever published.

     In the meantime, Dowbenko had become so frustrated by the unfulfilled potential of holography as an art medium that he took an artistic hiatus for more than 20 years. That has now ended. Dowbenko’s most recent exhibition was called “Metaphysical Landscapes,” open to the public from April 10 to May 25, 2003 at Nikolai Fine Art Gallery, 505 W. 22nd St., New York.

     “Metaphysical Landscapes” was a collection of visionary abstract images, including paintings, drawings, and a limited edition of original fine art lithographs (signed and numbered) called “Portals of Light.”

     These images explore the inner worlds, as well as the creation and destruction of memories, continents and civilizations. Teeming with an otherworldly energy, they are the visual constructs that describe transdimensional worlds and hidden history.

     Now that the spiritual quest has become a common metaphor for life itself, Dowbenko’s art can be seen as a meditation and a visual representation of the etheric realms.

     Uri Dowbenko is a member of the National Arts Club and the Author's Guild.

SELECTED EXHIBITS

2003 Nikolai Gallery, New York
2004 Anthem Gallery, New York
         Red Raven Gallery, Big Sky, Montana

Uri Dowbenko’s website: www.uridowbenko.com.
Studio Address: Eidetic Fine Art, Post Office Box 43, Pray, Montana 59065