"Twice estranged from his native Russia -- first as a forced laborer in Germany in World War II, then as a postwar emigrant who settled in Sea Cliff in 1952 -- Mr. Ilachinski uses art to express a spiritual connection to his homeland." - from a review by the New York Times of an exhibition of Sam Ilachinski's art at Adelphi University's Art Gallery Center, Garden City, NY (June - August 2000)