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Alina Maksymenko

Illustration

Red Figure140 x 90 cm Price on request 

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    Known as the "mistress" of color, Alina Maksymenko creates an image that is physically tangible in its powerful plastic solution. In their entirety, the works form a mosaic portrait of a magical island, where mysterious women live, ships are frozen in anticipation near the shore and rays of light play on the colored surfaces of exquisite still lifes. Alina personifies certain states, moods, which acquire a material embodiment in the plane of the completed work .

Illustration

Red Figure140 x 90 cm Price on request 

  • Read more about the artwork

    Known as the "mistress" of color, Alina Maksymenko creates an image that is physically tangible in its powerful plastic solution. In their entirety, the works form a mosaic portrait of a magical island, where mysterious women live, ships are frozen in anticipation near the shore and rays of light play on the colored surfaces of exquisite still lifes. Alina personifies certain states, moods, which acquire a material embodiment in the plane of the completed work .

Illustration

Red Figure140 x 90 cm Price on request 

  • Read more about the artwork

    Known as the "mistress" of color, Alina Maksymenko creates an image that is physically tangible in its powerful plastic solution. In their entirety, the works form a mosaic portrait of a magical island, where mysterious women live, ships are frozen in anticipation near the shore and rays of light play on the colored surfaces of exquisite still lifes. Alina personifies certain states, moods, which acquire a material embodiment in the plane of the completed work .

Illustration

About the artist

Alina Maksymenko is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. Maksimenko was born in 1974 in Kiev, Ukraine. She studied art at T.G. Shevchenko University and Boychuk University. She graduated from university in 1993 and began exhibiting in 1996. She is a member of the BG-Art union and The Art union of Ukraine. For Maksimenko, painting comes easily. She describes it as an organic process, one which involves constant flexibility. She explains, “the impression of an emotion, a feeling, a memory is fundamental to all my works, while light and color are key elements in translating, transmitting, or interpreting these impressions.” This exercise, committing something as fleeting and ephemeral as a feeling to canvas, requires a fluid process, one that is able to adapt to the transitory nature of time and perception. Maksimenko embraces impermanence in her ability to reimagine her subject, even after she has committed a composition to canvas. Her willingness to overwrite preconceived compositions creates a visible history in her work, one which helps realize her story.

  • List of the exhibitions

    2“Not the place.Cohort 1972”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2018
    “Titles”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine – 2017
    “No title”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2016
    “Time loop”, Art-14 gallery, Kiev, Ukraine – 2016
    Bath contemporary gallery, Bath, United Kingdom – 2015
    “Darning”, Bottega gallery, Kiev, Ukraine – 2014
    11-12 gallery, Shanghai – 2013
    Cite international Des Arts, Paris, France – 2012
    Gallery Tornby, Tversted, Denmark – 2011, 2015
    National museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine – 2010
    Gallery Vendоme, Paris, France – 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
    Gallery D’Hermance, Geneva, Switzerland – 2008, 2010, 2012
    Gallery Triptych, Kiev, Ukraine – 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
    Gallery Art Kvartal, Moscow, Russia – 2009
    Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine – 2007
    Gallery Lavra, Kiev, Ukraine – 2007