Between Roots and Heaven

Opening Reception: June 12th from 5–8 PM.

Between Roots and Heaven considers the experience of living through war from a distance and explores questions of identity shaped by displacement and cultural rupture. Emerging from the Mosiyevych’s migration from Ukraine to the United States, the works trace interrupted histories and dispersed families, forming evolving structures of belonging across distance.

The landscape of the American Midwest becomes a site of re-rooting, where trees embody both loss and renewal. Through dense rhythmic lines and recurring motifs of trees and roots, the works articulate endurance and continuity. Surrounded by fields of gold and platinum, they open a space in which the present remains in dialogue with both past and future, expressing a life lived between homelands, histories, and landscapes.

Extending the artist’s presentation at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, Between Roots and Heaven continues an inquiry into displacement, resilience, and artistic transformation. Rather than resolving the tension between loss and endurance, rupture and connection, the exhibition holds it open as a space of contemplation and witness. Here, art becomes a form of relation, linking memory, embodied experience, and imagined futures.

This exhibition is presented by Global Art Initiative Nebraska. Opening Reception at Kiechel Fine Art, 1208 O Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.