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Tatyana Stepanova
About
Tayana Stepanova is a Russian born artist who lives and works in Bridgeport, CT, USA. Her art integrates various styles to serve her goals of expression - Conceptualism, Figuration, Pop, Minimalism and Abstraction are among them. Art critic Lisa Paul Streitfeld wrote about Stepanovas works in NY Arts magazine "The raw edges, lucidity and commanding scale of Stepanova's paintings invite the viewer into a renewed ideal of human interconnectedness with the cosmos". She received art education at Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow, and at Westminster University, London, UK where she took classes with Cecil Collins - a revered art teacher and artist whose paintings are in the Tate. She taught History of Russian Art at the City Literary Institute in London, UK. Her first exhibitions were in Moscow Gallery A3 and in an ancient city near Moscow - Yaroslavl, at the Museum of Art followed by a solo exhibition at Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Stepanova's works are in the collections of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Yaroslavl Art Museum, the headquarters of Dialog of Art Magazine (DI), and private collections in Russia, UK and US."
The starting point of my life as an artist was while teaching History of Russian Art in London. The 15th Century Russian icon painting was inspirational. It has a unique style integrating symbol with geometry and color that provided the language for icon painters to express humanity through their religious beliefs.The impetus for unity where line, color and composition become inseparable from emotion, meaning and truth". … Read More
- Location
- Bridgeport, CT, United States
- Website
- http://www.birchforestartproject.net
Most of the paintings are diptychs, but each part can stand alone.
Education
MA Russian Literature, New York University, NY, USA
Painting & Drawing, Westminster University, London, England
History of Western Art, Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow, Russia
BA Linguistics & Foreign Languages Teaching, Moscow University of Linguistics, Moscow, Russia
Related Work Experience
1998 Director & Producer, Performing Arts Events, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA
1993 Director & Producer, Performing Arts Events, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
1983 Lecture Series "Four Revolutions in Russian Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
1978 Teaching History of Russian Art at City Literary Institute, Extra Mural Department of London University, London, UK
Major Shows
2011 "Project Birch Forest" White Box gallery, New York City, USA
2010 "Woman in the 21st Century": Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage"Pierre Menard Gallery, Boston, USA
2009"Black Madonna" HP Garcia Gallery, New York City, USA
2009Stage design for "Midsummer Night's Dream" ballet, University of East Carolina, USA
2008 "The Alchemy of Love: Hieros Gamos", The Lab Gallery, New York City, USA
2006 "Space and Light" Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
2006 "Space, Substances" International Foundation of Art (IFA) Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 "Reminiscences" Gallery A3, Arbat, Moscow, Russia "Improvisations" Yaroslavl Museum of Art, Yaroslavl, Russia"Artist Shows Here Before Exhibit Moves to Moscow", Black Rock Arts Center, Bridgeport, CT, USA
2002 Past & Present Gallery Algharo, Sardinia, Italy
Collections
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, RussiaYaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl, RussiaMoscow Art Magazine (DI), Moscow, RussiaYB World Taekwondo Academy, Stamford, CT, USA
Private collections in Russia, England, Spain, Italy, USA, … Read More
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Past exhibititions:
Birch Forest Art Project at White Box, New York , USA
Part 1 "Waste Land"
Part 2 "Stirrings Still"
www.whiteboxny.org
Future Exhibitions:
Installation "Birch Forest" at Sculpture Key West, Florida, USA
www.sculpturekeywest.org
