Alyona Azernaya

Alyona Azernaya
Born Elena Pavlovna Panicheva
(1966-03-09)March 9, 1966
Ekaterinburg, Russia
Nationality Russian
Known for Painting, Architecture, Art criticism
Movement Naïve art, Russian symbolism

Alyona Azernaya (in Russian: Алёна Азёрная), born March 9, 1966, Ekaterinburg, Russia is a contemporary Russian naïve painter. Her name has been transliterated from Russian as : Alyona Azernaya, Alena Azernay, Aliona Azernaia, Elena Azernaya, Aliona Aziornaya.

Biography

Alyona Azernaya was born in 1966, in Ekaterinburg.

In 1989 she graduated in architecture from Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture (now called Urals Academy of Architecture). In 1999 she graduated in art critic from Ural State Academy of Visual Arts.

In 1990 she worked as an interior designer and began to paint. Since 1996 she has dedicated her time exclusively to painting.

Since 1997 she is Member of Artists Trade Union of Russia.[1]

In 2000 she was noticed by Alexander Gleser former Soviet dissident, founder of the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (New Jersey - USA), who included in 2001, 7 of her works in its permanent collection.[2]

In 2003 she was Resident Artist at the International City of the Arts (Paris).

She has done numerous exhibitions in Russia, in the USA, in Italy and in France.

Works

Alyona Azernaya is a painter of naïve style.[3]

Through her representational and dreamlike compositions she describes a personal world,[4] where she mixes slavic mythology, Russian traditional tales and biblical narratives. She associates a naïve drawing with skillful use of colors and motives.[5] These deep and generous colors are just like nature which surrounds her and which dominates the majority of her paintings. They are also widely inspired by colors used in the Russian tradition from the inside of the peasant houses, to icones which decorate churches.

Exhibitions

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Artists Trade Union of Russia : Azernaya Elena Pavlovna
  2. ↑ Alexander Gleser, "Strelec", N°2, 2000
  3. ↑ Maria Marcy, "Vashon-Maury Ticket", April 2000
  4. ↑ "Neighbors : Coppell/Valley Ranch" 02/18/2006 - p.14
  5. ↑ "The Beachcomber", April 2001 "Aliona Aziornaya : paints a colorful dream world"

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