Liza Lesnykh "From sticks and circles" 0+ Automatic translate

Gallery "At the Golden Stairs", 4th floor.

Lisa was born into a family of artists. Since childhood, I have been in a creative atmosphere saturated with the “aroma of the workshop”; oils, turpentine, armfuls of brushes and bright spots of paint everywhere. From an early age, the artist was surrounded by creative people: painters, sculptors, friends of parents. And, undoubtedly, the society of "free artists" influenced her creative perception of the world.

The plots of the works are fantastic. One gets the feeling that you are seeing a dream filled with various symbols. Fantastic animals, mythical creatures, characters of folklore, allegorical images appear before the viewer. The viewer plunges into the picture, as if falling into a dream. He seems to find himself in a dense, slightly frightening world, where you can meet incredible creatures. Each work has a certain mysterious flavor. This "mystery" is read in the views of the characters, somewhat detached from the viewer. They do not invite the viewer to get to know each other better, but as if they are watching us from the depths of their fairy-tale worlds.

In Lisa’s works there is almost always black, black outlines in some way "stylize" the picture. Somewhere in black, the artist outlines the figures of the main characters, somewhere she denotes the rhythm of the plots. The value and interest of the works are given by the very “liveliness” that is often difficult to find in academic painting. The primitiveness of the contour lines combined with the subtle graphic pattern create intricate plots, referring to the early works of Chagall.

To create her works, Lisa uses ink, pencil, crayon, ink, watercolor, glue. Working with these art materials allows you to create miniature characters, filling plots with tiny characters.