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2008 oil on panel 15×15 cm

This is a bit of a childish rendition of a great idea.  Love the trams - those super slow public transport thingies in Kyiv that crawl slow-slow along the old streets. Number 15 goes from Ploscha Peremogy to Podil.   With our fascination with trains, we had to take this one just for the kicks, although it takes twice less time to just walk to Podil from our old place.

2008, oil on gessoed board, 15×15 cm

Another of the bee farm views from my trip.

Jetted through top galleries in Kyiv. Bit of a failure at start - Kollektsiya gallery sublet their space to some soap film crew. Next stop RA gallery featured some Latin American artists in main room as well as plethora of new art by established locals in the back (Kavsan’s pseudo Dutch still life). Their Thursday night opening features new photos by two Georgian photographers Irakli Dzneladze ans Amiko Kavtaradze. Since last visit, I learned that RA art and photo schools are growing up with even more classes and subjects to offer, feeding the need of their graduates for new and updated. In about a month a city wide Kievfotocom festival will bring tons of vry good international photography.

KyivFineArt propsed a semi realistic paintings of oil, sea, sand nudes by Elena and Tatyana Polyaschenko. The impression is - semi professional take on modern art.

Soviart and Karas galleries offered more impressive photo realism canvases and a special Soap project worth a look. Karas’ next big project China forever promises to be equally interesting.

Zeh initiated Samozahvat project, this time housed on a construction side on Borychiv tik 23a and presented an  array of Ukrainian modern greats. Except for Solomko’s light box, a nice installation sculpture and canvas by  Vasiliy Tsagolov.

And finally Gudimov’s Sumish installatin of antique decorative art and some modern art by Tistol, Vlada ralko and others creats a nice genretal impression.

Thank you all for coming to the show and making it a great success! This would not have happened without my angels named Sarah, Brook and Raluca. Big cheers to you, girls!

(Brooke’s been camera shy tonight )

big thanks to Nazar for taking the pics!

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection

Continuing here the theme of Ukrainian church domes. It’s a real pleasure to paint this beauty.

I caught a cold, as well as the baby, and a bit under the weather, not producing as much as I should a week before my first show.

Katherine I Hardy - a new artist who’s work I like. She illustrated the Great Gatsby and got her degree from RCA.

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection

I painted this one to match my other small and larger pieces of the church domes for the upcoming exhibition.

Temo Svirely, image from http://www.svirely.com

Illya Isupov (currently at Zeh)

Pikul, currently at Zeh

I forgot the name of this artist, also at Zeh

Thank you everyone who came to my presentation. Here are the slides I’ve used today:

Also here’s the map of the Kyiv galleries that we distributed during the meeting for you to print. Please, leave a comment below if you have any follow up questions on the presentations or just want to say hello.

Don’t forget to come to my art show on April 4th, here are the directions and a flier that’s also in this months’ IWCK newsletter. Cheers,

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection

This one is for Little Miss Moi to remind her to fix her camera soon and take more beautiful pictures!

I am inspired today by the effortless technique of Vasily Tsagolov. He wouldn’t be one of the current greats though without his cool, sometimes violent subject matter.

Another fun painter at Postcard from Provence.

15×15 cm, oil on board, 2008, private collection

A very cool artist Diana Navarette came to my flickr page; I was happy to find out she makes great expressive portraits.