Luba Genush (9 September 1924 – 6 May 2021) was a Canadian multidisciplinary artist of Ukrainian origin. Throughout her career she practiced printmaking and painting, as well as mixed media, drawing, ceramics, computer art, and "collagraphs," which are described, as "collaged and cannibalized prints reprinted to form a new print."

Career

A native of

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, Genush began her studies at the School of Fine Arts in

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, where she studied from 1938 until 1941. In 1942, her family emigrated to

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, Austria. There, Genush attended the

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from 1943 to 1948. In 1948, she emigrated to

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, Canada, where she studied ceramics as a pupil of J. Cartier at the École du Meuble from 1955 to 1956. From 1958 to 1959 she studied etching at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montreal. Her work with computer generated images, concerned with the relationship between humans and technology, has been featured in exhibitions with the

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, the

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, and the Museum of History in

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, Quebec. In addition to showing in North America, Genush's work was also featured in exhibitions that have travelled abroad, such as in ''Montreal-Moscow''. Her work is included in the collection of the

. Genush was married to Pierre Gloor, a Swiss-born neurologist, until his death; the couple had two children. She lived and worked in Montreal. Genush died in May 2021, at the age of 96.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Genush, Luba 1924 births 2021 deaths Canadian women printmakers Canadian people of Ukrainian descent 20th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian printmakers 21st-century Canadian painters 21st-century Canadian printmakers Artists from Odesa Artists from Montreal Soviet emigrants to Canada Soviet expatriates in Austria 20th-century Canadian women painters 21st-century Canadian women painters