Oksana Lamonova

The Kyiv gallery Mystets is hosting a solo exhibit of Inna Bychenkova, a well-known artist of theater and cinema (she has worked on the film Captain Fracassa). Her current exposition consists of landscape and still life paintings. However, Bychenkova’s paintings, especially landscapes, look...

Kyivan artist Tetiana Falina works in a technique that she defines as “art of thread,” in which the result is called a picture. The author herself has coined these notions. They are both disputable and significant. Falina positions herself, first of all, as an artist and stays away from various...

The exhibit of Osyp Kryvohlaz’s works is taking place at the House of Architects. This year the well-known Kyiv artist turned 92! Despite the respectable age the master continues to work actively and with youthful enthusiasm. A professional architect, he was captivated by painting in his...

That is how Larysa Okhrimenko and Tetiana Falina decided to call their exhibit. The latter defines her technique (which features embroidering with gold or silver and weaving) as painting with threads. The vernissage took place in the Workshop gallery in the Artists House. Larysa Okhrimenko...

What is in the headline is the name of the batik exhibit by a young Lviv artist Liubava Taradai, which has opened at the Fulbright Program office. The exposition displays an effective series of works on Lviv by night, where the shining and radiant old-style buildings and cathedrals mysteriously...

Akvatoria sniv — The Sea of Dreams — is the name of Yulia Boborykina’s solo exhibit at the Griffon Gallery. The young artist studied in Kyiv and Moscow. She harmoniously, albeit at times unexpectedly, combines graphics, design, calligraphy, and poetry. A number of her works are continuations of her...

Iryna Hodunova is an accomplished artist whose works include still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and paintings on religious themes. She has also tried her hand at traditional icon-painting and illustration. Her paintings on glass have their own long and varied history, including an abstract phase....

Alchemy of Simplicity is the title of an art show that just opened at the Griffon Gallery. On display are paintings by the Zhytomyr-based artist Yurii Kamyshny, which co-exist organically with the ceramic sculptures of the Kyiv artists Bohdan Matviienko and Oleksandr Yarovy. Still lifes (Still Life...

Kharkiv’s artist Valentyna Safina brought a number of landscapes from her travels, although this geography is rather conventional and is felt in the true sense of the word only in titles (e.g., At Vynohradna. Ai-Vasyl, Darvyna after Rain, At Repin’s Estate). Mostly it does not matter where...

“Water and Stones”is the name of the artist Amir Khalikov’s solo exhibit at the Irena gallery. The landscapes painted by Khalikov are full of freshness, ingenuity and, if I may say so, admirable impressionability (“The Bukovyna Summer,” “A Bridge over the Grass”). They are also very decorative: it...