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Rozanoff Art
355 29th Street
San Francisco CA 94131

Gallery Events:
Exhibition
May 1- 30, 2008
Conversing in Color

Reception May 3, 2-6PM

Rozanoff Art Gallery and Canvasations Gallery host an exhibition featuring ten of today’s rising stars in contemporary fine art. All of Eastern European origins, these artists possess rare technical mastery, which each has pursued in an entirely unique direction to produce art that is statement, expression, and storytelling even as it is aesthetics at its best.

Participating artists:
Sergei Adeev: In Adeev’s "NAÏVE" works, the real world meets with fairy tale, and the lively and sometimes amusing characters are caught up in situations that are at once surreal and ordinary. The complex and colorful menageries create an optimistic, humorous, and sometimes satirical mood.

Arseneiy Alihanov: Alihanov's works employ a vibrant palette and are uniquely textural. Influenced by El Greko and Matisse, Vrubel and Miro, Kandinsky and the Eastern School of miniatures, Alihanov makes color come alive in dramatic abstracts and subtle landscapes.

Nikolai Bogomolov: Bogomolov has participated in numerous groundbreaking projects from St. Petersburg to San Francisco, including the "All for One Earth" exhibition. He works in a broad variety of mediums, including oil on canvas, acrylic on hand-made paper, and digital art and computer graphics.

Natasha Dikareva: Dikareva’s sculptures are striking and dramatic, yet earthy and fluid. They take us beyond the noise and rush of modern life, and connect to the simplicity and elegance in nature. Stains, matte glazes, and texture create the aura of ancient artifacts in her sculptures - seemingly, products of the spontaneous genesis of natural forces — Fire, Wind and Water.

Sabir and Svetlana Gadzhiev: This artistic duo met at the world-renowned Repin Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Every work is a collaborative effort by the artists. The Gadzhievs’ paintings of fantasy and whimsy incorporate a variety of techniques and multidimensional forms, and evoke the sense of a distant, magical, and ambiguous universe.

Igor Lazarev: Lazarev applies his exquisite brushwork, reminiscent of the Dutch masters, to a surrealistic vision of a metaphysical world inhabited by mystical creatures. The artist's opulent works hint at other worlds, expressed in a uniquely detailed style and a luminously velvet texture that is completely his own.

Sergei Plotnikov: In Plotnikov's paintings, imagination and hyper-realism merge. His works often juxtapose unexpected themes and objects. They are built in planes, on the principles of theatrical sets. Then the characters appear—floating in these environments like highly expressive apparitions.

Simon Shegelman: Shegelman's art carries a luminescence that is simultaneously romantic and philosophical. Remaining faithful to the ancient axiom that painting is silent poetry and poetry is the painting that speaks, Shegelman arranges colors in what is truly a poetic reflection on the world around him.

Oksana Veber: Veber's paintings reflect a fascination with Taoism and other Eastern philosophies. The current series of works convey the themes of peace, harmony, and emptiness through the portrayal of women. These images carry a warmth and optimism, incorporating subtle colors and sharp accents that create a highly sensual aura.

Lilly Willis: Willis’ unique technique, called “liquid glass,” gives her paintings the look of polished semi-precious stone, glimmering beneath the still waters of a quiet pond. Her figurative works surprise with soft, sensual forms emerging from the cold, hard stone. Her abstracts integrate wild, natural elements and complex geometric order.

Rozanoff Art
355 29th Street
San Francisco CA 94131

Gallery Events:
Exhibition
May 1- 30, 2008
Conversing in Color

Reception May 3, 2-6PM

Conversing in Color

Rozanoff Art Gallery and Canvasations Gallery host an exhibition featuring ten of today’s rising stars in contemporary fine art. All of Eastern European origins, these artists possess rare technical mastery, which each has pursued in an entirely unique direction to produce art that is statement, expression, and storytelling even as it is aesthetics at its best.

Participating artists:
Sergei Adeev: In Adeev’s "NAÏVE" works, the real world meets with fairy tale, and the lively and sometimes amusing characters are caught up in situations that are at once surreal and ordinary. The complex and colorful menageries create an optimistic, humorous, and sometimes satirical mood.

Arseneiy Alihanov: Alihanov's works employ a vibrant palette and are uniquely textural. Influenced by El Greko and Matisse, Vrubel and Miro, Kandinsky and the Eastern School of miniatures, Alihanov makes color come alive in dramatic abstracts and subtle landscapes.

Nikolai Bogomolov: Bogomolov has participated in numerous groundbreaking projects from St. Petersburg to San Francisco, including the "All for One Earth" exhibition. He works in a broad variety of mediums, including oil on canvas, acrylic on hand-made paper, and digital art and computer graphics.

Natasha Dikareva: Dikareva’s sculptures are striking and dramatic, yet earthy and fluid. They take us beyond the noise and rush of modern life, and connect to the simplicity and elegance in nature. Stains, matte glazes, and texture create the aura of ancient artifacts in her sculptures - seemingly, products of the spontaneous genesis of natural forces — Fire, Wind and Water.

Sabir and Svetlana Gadzhiev: This artistic duo met at the world-renowned Repin Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Every work is a collaborative effort by the artists. The Gadzhievs’ paintings of fantasy and whimsy incorporate a variety of techniques and multidimensional forms, and evoke the sense of a distant, magical, and ambiguous universe.

Igor Lazarev: Lazarev applies his exquisite brushwork, reminiscent of the Dutch masters, to a surrealistic vision of a metaphysical world inhabited by mystical creatures. The artist's opulent works hint at other worlds, expressed in a uniquely detailed style and a luminously velvet texture that is completely his own.

Sergei Plotnikov: In Plotnikov's paintings, imagination and hyper-realism merge. His works often juxtapose unexpected themes and objects. They are built in planes, on the principles of theatrical sets. Then the characters appear—floating in these environments like highly expressive apparitions.

Simon Shegelman: Shegelman's art carries a luminescence that is simultaneously romantic and philosophical. Remaining faithful to the ancient axiom that painting is silent poetry and poetry is the painting that speaks, Shegelman arranges colors in what is truly a poetic reflection on the world around him.

Oksana Veber: Veber's paintings reflect a fascination with Taoism and other Eastern philosophies. The current series of works convey the themes of peace, harmony, and emptiness through the portrayal of women. These images carry a warmth and optimism, incorporating subtle colors and sharp accents that create a highly sensual aura.

Lilly Willis: Willis’ unique technique, called “liquid glass,” gives her paintings the look of polished semi-precious stone, glimmering beneath the still waters of a quiet pond. Her figurative works surprise with soft, sensual forms emerging from the cold, hard stone. Her abstracts integrate wild, natural elements and complex geometric order.

U srijedu, 19. rujna 2007. u 14 sati otvara se izložba umjetnice Oksane Veber. Otvorenje æe se održati u Multimedijalnom Kulturnom Centru u Kukljici. Osim Oksane Veber, svoja djela izlagat æe i njen sin, Bohdan Altunin, student kiparstva u Pragu. Otvorenje æe popratiti glazbeni duet sa španjolskim instrumentalnim pjesmama.
Njeni prvi radovi bili su vezani uz slikanje krajolika. Njena fasciniranosti istoènjaèkom filozofijom i temama mira i sklada reflektira se u njenim slikama. Meðutim, njeni posljednji radovi ponajviše su vezani uz portrete žena.

Oksana Veber veæ nekoliko godina sudjeluje u Jadertini èiji je program koncipiran kao moguænost okupljanja i zajednièkog rada umjetnika iz europskih zemalja radi razmjene iskustava predstavnika raznih likovnih miljea, a u svjetlu integracijskih procesa suvremene Europe. Posebna joj je želja da svoje radove prezentira u Kukljici, u mjestu gdje je napravila veæinu svojih posljednjih slika. Nakon ove izložbe, njeni radovi bit æe izloženi u Londonu.


Govoreæi o svom radu, Oksana kaže:

In my painting and life I look for the expression of the beauty. When see that causes the sensation of the beauty and harmonies this attracts and inspires. From childhood till today I love to observe motion in nature, can hour by hour to sit on tree beside ravine, meeting first rays sun and accompanying ribbons of the mist slowly crawling away on herb.

Harmony of the women’s body line, harmony in landscape, still life. The Color and Line, this magic give me inspiration. Send this feeling of harmony on the canvas - my goal. The Pictures often come to me in night dreams, combination of color, composition all is so real, it is necessary only to have time to sketch it before image disappear in day reality.

When I paint, to me comes the special condition of the flight feeling. The Process of painting sweet as temptation, but when work is finish yet, approaches as provision after falling in love and canvas do not pleases anymore unless it is reached that dried peaches fantasy.

Improvisation of the artist Oksana Veber.

Dmitrij Korcyn, art critic of BZ Art Union. 1998 year.

The Creative development of Oksana Veber is found to be endlessly enriching. From her first academic paintings, up until today, is to be found light, lyrical, refined fantastic works. In her creative activity she develops ideas and criteria of the painting and thematic practicability of her artistic style.
Her first Personal exhibition in Prague, has definitively confirmed her artistic and emotional legitimacy, and the formation of her artistic style is open to further development. The paintings of Oksana Veber gives certain burlesque beginnings to the scenic action, involvement in the play, in whimsical world dreams, where reigns free improvisation of the fairy-tale plot, and the final of the play is open for guesswork and suggestions.
The liberally flowing lines of her subjects emphasizes even moreso the randomness of the scenes and actions, even moving beyond the edge of the canvas. These live improvisations carry in themselves special dynamics and create the sensation of fragility and careful attention. The Asymmetric edge of the drawing with bright scenic action reminds one of the unforgotten part of ones night dream, or plucking a page from the manuscript in the library of doctor Kalligari.
Vebers’ inherently expressive style creates a kind of Gothic feel to the subjects she deals with. She sees the other side of things and their interlocutory with ambience, aptitude to transition and mutation and emotional change. Sometimes, (unexpectedly) in the plot of her story, there penetrates the world, phantasmagoric and frightening. Just like Gofman or Gogol, it is present in the plot layers of the canvas. Sometimes, in warm and vague mirage,
there begins to ooze, as from the early morning mist, the first contours of the images unfolding. From this absolutely colourful ambience, where it is not necessary to separate the four elements, but where they are present all together, suddenly appears through the contours of the feminine body one more element - an element of desire and passion.
Specifically, it is necessary to note the main heroin of the Oksana Veber paintings - waiting, dreaming, in the surroundings of the city, seaside, home, emphasizing her feminine grace and movement. Sometimes, barely audible, there is an air of solitude and imagined communication, awaiting the arrival of somebody else.
This is conveyed by the use of a door standing ajar or a dimly lit candle or a round table with a chair set expectantly beside it.
The Artist possesses the childlike ability to see and notice the birds, fish, rabbits, cats, and brightly coloured flowers blooming from a vase.
Like a candle burning through the night, melting into its candle-holder, like the facial expression of a person, made to relax by the God of night dreams - Gipnos, the subjects in her works are shaped by the emotional expression that is formed by the internal heat coming from them.

The beginning of the night mystery is felt in the plot of the narrative of her pictures; the shade, cat, door opened slightly in darkness, measured approach absorbing passions. The Deep desire, eroticism, ability of the subject to merge or conflict and divide them, vital dualism - persuasively dominate in her work. The Presence, the departure, the arrival of the woman - her denuded body from the dreams, from forgotten epochs of the romantic era, the world of the alchemist and the violinist from the music box from the times of Amadeus Mozart. The Body of the woman is interpreted by the smooth and confident lines, more and more gravitate to the formula, sign, expressive, music, reminding one of a treble clef.
Herewith often appears the sea - as a ghostly motive, memory-dotted line, flowing around the contours of the subject, the contours of the bodies.
In all picturesque and graphic work Oksana Veber underlines free arrangement, improvisation, jazz harmony in any one of the instruments, leading its and the general themes. The freedom and sonority colour and pliability, modern rhythms and the forms figuratively complement each other, forming inimitable and light creative style of the artist.
1988 Dmitrij Korcyn

Tečaj vrijedi od 22.09.2011. KULTURA OBJAVLJENO 18.08.2011. / 09:52 h
U PUČKOM OTVORENOM UČILIŠTU, U PREKU
„Morski san“ umjetnice Oksane Veber


Autor: Martina Sikirić - VOX GLAS ZADRA
U Galeriji Pučkog otvorenog učilišta Dom na žalu u Preku otvorena je izložba slika naziva Morski san-Sea dream akademske slikarice Oksane Veber iz Češke Republike.
U sklopu otvorenja nastupile su članice vokalno instrumentalnog sastava Stella Maris, a pjesnik dr. Robert Bacalja pročitao je svoju pjesmu «Nova besida o veloj kobotnici na punti ključa».
Kosta Kostov, organizator programa Međunarodne likovne kolonije Jadertina na kojima je sudjelovala i autorica otvorio je izložbu.
Koraljka Alavanja, povjesničarka umjetnosti se osvrnula na izložbu istaknuvši da svatko od nas teži za mirom, skladom i harmonijom, a da autorica mir pronalazi u ljepoti krajolika, mrtve prirode, portreta žene, a koje se pretočene u harmoniju boja i oblika nastavljaju kao inspiracija za nastanak umjetničkog djela.
U ranijim radovima kolorit je ekspresivan i snažan, zatim se lagano utišava i prelazi u pastelne tonove plavo-sive i oker boje u gradacijama, da bi u najnovijem ciklusu boja gotovo iščezla, kazala je povjesničarka.
- Boje su nanesene širokim potezima, te se nenametljivo kombiniraju i pretapaju tvoreći apstrakciju, koja bi u nekim djelima mogla opstojati kao dovršeno djelo u maniri apstraktnog ekspresionizma. Na takvu slikarsku pozadinu slikarica tehnikom crteža tankim, razigranim, gotovo kaligrafskim potezima crne boje stvara figuraciju, što meditativnoj mirnoći pozadine daje živost i otvara prostor za novu priču – navela je.
Ante Brižić, direktor Turističke zajednice Općine Preko zahvalio se autorici što je odabrala otok Ugljan odnosno Preko za postavljanje svoje izložbe. Izrazio je zadovoljstvo što upravo u spomenutim područjima Oksana pronalazi inspiraciju.
Autorica je uz zahvale svima istaknula kako se na otoku Ugljanu osjeća kao kod kuće, te da je postao njen drugi dom.
Oksana je rođena u Atlajskoj regiji u Rusiji, diplomirala je na Likovnoj akademiji lijepih umjetnosti u Kijevu. Iza nje su brojne samostalne i skupne izložbe

Kultura
Otok Ugljan kao vrelo inspiracije
Piše: Ivan Stagličić
18.08.2011.
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Od prvih radova do danas umjetnica je kroz istu filozofsku postavku i motive razvijala svoj rad mijenjajući ga stilski i istražujući slikarski medij kombiniranjem utjecaja različitih umjetničkih epoha prilagođavajući ih vrlo uspješno vlastitom duhu i inspiraciji koju pronalazi u sebi, kazala je Koraljka Alavanja

U galeriji Pučkog otvorenog učilišta "Dom na žalu" otvorena je izložbaU galeriji Pučkog otvorenog učilišta "Dom na žalu" otvorena je izložba "Morski san - Sea dream", češke slikarice Oksane Veber. Oksana Veber završila je Akademiju likovnih umjetnosti u Kijevu, a dosad je izlagala u Ukrajini, Češkoj, Danskoj, Francuskoj, Velikoj Britaniji i SAD-u, a posebno su zapažena bila njezina oslikavanja javih prostora i građevina. O radu Oksane Veber, okupljenima je govorila povjesničarka umjetnosti Koraljka Alavanja:
- Slikarica Oksana Veber mir pronalazi u ljepoti krajolika, mrtve prirode, portreta žene, koje se pretočene u harmoniju boja i oblika nastavljaju kao inspiracija za nastanak umjetničkog djela. Vodeći se tom težnjom za skladom i istražujući teme kao što su mir, harmonija i praznina, umjetnica je istraživala taoizam i istočnjačku filozofiju te je svoje nagnuće i otkrivenje prenijela na slikarsko platno. Odjeke tih utjecaja prepoznajemo prvenstveno u slikarskom pristupu kojim umjetnica stvara pozadinu za svoje likove, definiranu samo kolorističkim efektima. U ranijim radovima kolorit je ekspresivan i snažan, zatim se lagano utišava i prelazi u pastelne tonove plavo-sive i oker boje u gradacijama, da bi u najnovijem ciklusu boja gotovo iščezla u monokromiju toplih nijansi sive kroz koju kao svjetlosni efekt prodire bjelina. Boje su nanesene sa širokim potezima te se nenametljivo kombiniraju i pretapaju tvoreći apstrakciju, koja bi u nekim djelima mogla opstojati kao dovršeno djelo u maniri apstraktnog ekspresionizma. Na takvu slikarsku pozadinu slikarica tehnikom crteža tankim, razigranim, gotovo kaligrafskim potezima crne boje stvara figuraciju, što meditativnoj mirnoći pozadine daje živost i otvara prostor za novu priču, istaknula je, između ostaloga, Alavanja te zaključila:
- Od prvih radova do danas umjetnica je kroz istu filozofsku postavku i motive razvijala svoj rad mijenjajući ga stilski i istražujući slikarski medij kombiniranjem utjecaja različitih umjetničkih epoha prilagođavajući ih vrlo uspješno vlastitom duhu i inspiraciji koju pronalazi u sebi.
Otvorenje izložbe uveličale su mlade dame iz vokalno instrumentalnog sastava Stella Maris koje su otpjevale dvije pjesme "Vjerujem" i "Vječna pjesma ljubavi", te pjesnik prof. dr. sc. Robert Bacalja koji je pročitao jednu od svojih novijih pjesama "Nova besida o veloj kobotnici na Punti ključa".
Nazočne je pozdravio Ante Brižić, direktor TZ Općine Preko, darovavši umjetnici buket cvijeća i zaželjevši joj ugodan boravak na otoku Ugljanu. U svom obraćanju nazočnima, Oksana Veber zahvalila je svima i otkrila kako je otok Ugljan postao njezin drugi dom i izvor stalne inspiracije. Osobito joj se svidjela galerija Doma na žalu za koju je posebno pripremila izložbu "Morski san-Sea dream". Izložbu je otvorio akademski slikar Kosta Kostov, organizator programa Međunarodne likovne kolonije Jadertina preko koje je i Oksana Veber upoznala i toliko zavoljela otok Ugljan i Hrvatsku.
, češke slikarice Oksane Veber. Oksana Veber završila je Akademiju likovnih umjetnosti u Kijevu, a dosad je izlagala u Ukrajini, Češkoj, Danskoj, Francuskoj, Velikoj Britaniji i SAD-u, a posebno su zapažena bila njezina oslikavanja javih prostora i građevina. O radu Oksane Veber, okupljenima je govorila povjesničarka umjetnosti Koraljka Alavanja:
- Slikarica Oksana Veber mir pronalazi u ljepoti krajolika, mrtve prirode, portreta žene, koje se pretočene u harmoniju boja i oblika nastavljaju kao inspiracija za nastanak umjetničkog djela. Vodeći se tom težnjom za skladom i istražujući teme kao što su mir, harmonija i praznina, umjetnica je istraživala taoizam i istočnjačku filozofiju te je svoje nagnuće i otkrivenje prenijela na slikarsko platno. Odjeke tih utjecaja prepoznajemo prvenstveno u slikarskom pristupu kojim umjetnica stvara pozadinu za svoje likove, definiranu samo kolorističkim efektima. U ranijim radovima kolorit je ekspresivan i snažan, zatim se lagano utišava i prelazi u pastelne tonove plavo-sive i oker boje u gradacijama, da bi u najnovijem ciklusu boja gotovo iščezla u monokromiju toplih nijansi sive kroz koju kao svjetlosni efekt prodire bjelina. Boje su nanesene sa širokim potezima te se nenametljivo kombiniraju i pretapaju tvoreći apstrakciju, koja bi u nekim djelima mogla opstojati kao dovršeno djelo u maniri apstraktnog ekspresionizma. Na takvu slikarsku pozadinu slikarica tehnikom crteža tankim, razigranim, gotovo kaligrafskim potezima crne boje stvara figuraciju, što meditativnoj mirnoći pozadine daje živost i otvara prostor za novu priču, istaknula je, između ostaloga, Alavanja te zaključila:
- Od prvih radova do danas umjetnica je kroz istu filozofsku postavku i motive razvijala svoj rad mijenjajući ga stilski i istražujući slikarski medij kombiniranjem utjecaja različitih umjetničkih epoha prilagođavajući ih vrlo uspješno vlastitom duhu i inspiraciji koju pronalazi u sebi.
Otvorenje izložbe uveličale su mlade dame iz vokalno instrumentalnog sastava Stella Maris koje su otpjevale dvije pjesme "Vjerujem" i "Vječna pjesma ljubavi", te pjesnik prof. dr. sc. Robert Bacalja koji je pročitao jednu od svojih novijih pjesama "Nova besida o veloj kobotnici na Punti ključa".
Nazočne je pozdravio Ante Brižić, direktor TZ Općine Preko, darovavši umjetnici buket cvijeća i zaželjevši joj ugodan boravak na otoku Ugljanu. U svom obraćanju nazočnima, Oksana Veber zahvalila je svima i otkrila kako je otok Ugljan postao njezin drugi dom i izvor stalne inspiracije. Osobito joj se svidjela galerija Doma na žalu za koju je posebno pripremila izložbu "Morski san-Sea dream". Izložbu je otvorio akademski slikar Kosta Kostov, organizator programa Međunarodne likovne kolonije Jadertina preko koje je i Oksana Veber upoznala i toliko zavoljela otok Ugljan i Hrvatsku.