Valentina Kisseleva
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Valentina Kisseleva
Valentina Kisseleva was born in Russia and has been an American artist. Her artistic style was formed through her study of artistic graphics and the academic style of painting at the Academy of Arts. The combination of different art schools and Valentina's understanding of art have formed a recognizable author's style. The school of graphic design led her to a kind of secession-symbolic mixture in painting, where graphics that appeal to symbols, expressive deformation, stylization of figurative forms and the autonomous function of color play a key role. It uses means to deprive reality of its objective impact. In accordance with the mood of her psyche, she seeks to fill her works with new meaning on the basis of a spontaneous, irrational, unconsciously inspired presentation of realities, that do not obey the laws of spatial relationships, proportions, and perspectives. With the help of excited lines, signs or text, she defines and rhythmizes the plane of the canvas. The artist's paintings are in many private collections in the United States and abroad. Her name is included in the catalog of the Union of Graphic Designers of Belarus. For over six years Valentina Kisseleva had a workshop in the Sawyer Yards art complex. In 2013, Valentina was named one of Houston's 100 Best Creative Artists.
“Valentina has created a unique style of painting that raises her above the vast mass of contemporary artists and allows her works to be easily recognizable and memorable,” - Irene Lingard, Master of Arts. |
“My creative life was divided into two halves. Graphic design and painting. These lives at the very beginning did not intersect in any way. And I felt split. It was very painful for me. I lived as if in two parallel planes of life. In that design life, I succeeded and was admitted to the Union of Designers of the USSR for posters, many of which were massively published in the Republic of Belarus. And all of them, as one, participated in exhibitions of republican significance and in various galleries. Many of them are now in private collections. And the second life was painful and difficult. I lived in it with disappointment and torment, in search of my own style. Many years passed before my two-parallel lives in art magically merged into their own special individual style, which I half-jokingly, half-seriously began to call "kissism", - from my last name Kisseleva. Graphic design with its formal elements and iconic symbolism, combined with the school of painting, led my individual understanding of art to create a recognizable author's style. This is the uniqueness of my art work”.