Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Iryna Akimova has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Iryna is a contemporary, award-winning artist based in Kiev, Ukraine. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 30th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Iryna’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her artworks submitted to this competition.
Iryna Akimova graduated from Kharkov State University (Ukraine), where she got her PhD degree. She studied the relationship between psychological personal profiles and the process of formation of subjective perceptions of the reality. Her artworks are full of allegories and invite to a philosophical search of the hidden senses behind the familiar objects. She develops expressionistic style with a surrealistic touch. She started in painting, and then went into installations, video-animation and performance in order to achieve a multidimensional effect.
Iryna had eighteen solo exhibitions, and took part in 60+ national and international group exhibitions. She received awards at several international art contests. Her artworks are in museums and private collections in Ukraine, Germany, Slovakia, and China. Iryna is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. She founded Ukrainian Association of Feminine Research in the Arts (UAFRA) and established an annual Womens’ ArtFest to advocate gender equality in the arts.
I started my professional art career after having a vast experience in teaching and management. First, painting became a passion, and then it turned into a mode of my life, the major instrument to share my thoughts with people. I analytically convert abstract concepts and typical human emotions into a set of bright visual images with their own characters and stories. My artworks lead the viewers to the world of allegory, inspiring them to start a philosophical search of the hidden senses behind the familiar objects. I develop expressionistic style, and create complex projects with paintings, installations and video-animation as complementary tools to reach multidimensional effect.
Pictures in the application belong to the cycle - Dandelion’s Stories. This cycle is inspired by the philosophical interpretation of a dandelion as a symbol of joy and wisdom, unique power of survival and persistent struggle for life. It grows both in a well-groomed flowerbed and through the ruins of destroyed houses. Its indomitable thirst for life overcomes any obstacles, and the sunny color of his petals carries confidence and hope. Series of surrealistic portraits provides allegories of human characters and emotions.
QUESTIONING depicts a man, who understands that life offers far more questions than answers. HUMILITY tells the story of f philosophical approach to life and readiness to accept it as it is. LOOKING INTO YOURSELF underlines the need for self-analyses and re-evaluation of one’s wins and losses. CRAFTINESS stresses that charm and wittiness often pays off. LOVE is an art smile about an old couple which turned their mutual sympathy and lifelong support into a reliable foundation for happy life. Bright yellow-orange-blue palette of the last two pictures creates an optimistic picture of the overall victory of the sun light.
To learn more about Iryna and to see more of her photography, please visit her Instagram.
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