We are pleased to host a fundraising exhibition featuring artwork created by KS Lack for her hybrid chapbook, Kyivsky Waltz: a love story, published by Finishing Line Press. Kara will present her limited edition letterpress art from the book, followed by a reading of selected poems on a nearby rooftop. From the author: “Kyvisky Waltz is my attempt to show Ukraine as I experienced it at age 22: alone, completely lost, unable to communicate; yet somehow managing to find a home and people to love in a new nation with an old history. With this book, I hope to remind people that Ukraine has been—and always will be—much more than a war zone. All of my proceeds are being donated to Razom for Ukraine, a non-profit dedicated to providing Ukrainian humanitarian aid.” 

The exhibition will take place at MoonLab 42 from June 15th to June 22nd with an opening event on Saturday, June 15th, from 4:00 to 7:00. KS will read from her book at 5:00 and 6:30. Attendance is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. 

About KS Lack

KS Lack is a writer and artist interested in transcending constraints by working with them. From 1994 to 1997, KS lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she helped start The Mirror Weekly, Ukraine’s first independent weekly newspaper. Her work has been featured in a variety of galleries and publications; her mixed-media project, Sunflower Variations: this is Ukraine, which addresses the current war in Ukraine, will be shown in Hudson Valley in November 2024. A founding member of the Introspective Collective consortium of artists, she has been living with disability and chronic pain since childhood. 

Other works of KS Lack