About the Artists:

Yelena Lezhen

“Sexuality and subconscious is the bridge that leads from visible to invisible…”. She is an artist who recently very actively shows her works at art exhibitions in New York, France, Italy and Spain. Her painting “Purple Rain”, sold at this summer Art Hamptons 2016 Show, has just been published in the September issue of the Blouin Modern Painters magazine.

Sergey’s inspiration is the world around him – words (both written and spoken), sounds, places, and images. He devours information in all forms. An avid reader, an attentive listener, and an observant spectator he is always either pondering some new idea, or redeveloping an old one. He is fascinated with history and world religions, and knowledgeable in a great many of subjects, which makes his paintings multifaceted expressions of his perception.

Sergey’s art is sometimes humorous, sometimes spiritual, and sometimes contemplative. It can be both colorful and dark. But no matter what the canvas displays, it always manages to tug at our inner strings. It stimulates the viewer’s thought, soul, and imagination. His works are beloved by a wide circle of friends’ family, and acquaintances, and are located in private collections in Europe and the US. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife.

Yelena Kimelblat

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Yelena never formally learned how to paint. Yelena Kimelblat started to paint in 2008 and art became a means for Yelena to share with others her vision of life.

Yelena’s paintings belong to absolutely new genre… This genre is very much understood by the people who are absolutely new in the world of visual art. Yelena has the uncanny ability to see the unexpected side of the plain and the ordinary. One cannot arrive at this place with reason and logic. Her metaphoric thinking leads her to decisions that are so far from ordinary human associations. That which Yelena is doing doesn’t fit within the understanding of artistic movements and schools of thought. She does not belong to any movement. She is on her own. She gives birth to her art pieces somehow naturally, and they naturally communicate to us that which belongs only to her: her visions of things and happenings – her inner world. This perspective finds a connection with the people who view Yelena’s paintings, because the joy of being with which Yelena lives and works is being conveyed to people.

Yelena’s paintings on display in Chelsea Galleries, Museum of Russian Art, private collections. Her art work was selected for “WIDE OPEN 7” Metropolitan Museum of Art National juried art show at Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition.

Oxana Uryasev

Oxana Uryasev was born in Ukraine to a family of academics in 1960. Oxana’s mother, the professor of mathematics at the University of Kiev, was famous for writing di#cult to comprehend non-Euclidian geometry textbooks. Under the stern in&uence of her mother, Oxana completed a doctoral degree in probability theory. She was slated to become a professor, teaching future Soviet nuclear scientists how to calculate the likelihood of their missiles landing on target.A few years later, with the Soviet Union dissolving around her, Oxana was far from this original plan. Living in Vienna, Austria, she was raising two beautiful kids on a diet of Schnitzel and Kinderbier. By the mid 90s, Oxana had moved to the USA. Oxana studied under several prominent painters but is primarily self-taught. Her creative process is in&uenced by her mathematical background and the fantastical images are fed by her international cultural experience. Her works are in several private collections and have been displayed at the Tench Gallery and at the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville. Her paintings can be found at www.oxanau.com

Grigory Gurevich

Grigory Gurevich, sculptor, painter, graphic artist, printmaker, and inventor has had more than 400 exhibitions in the United States and Europe and conducted hundreds of sculpture workshops in Italy, Denmark, and U.S.

At 15, his painting “Grandmother” was selected for the exhibition of professional painters in Manege, Moscow
He had studied art in prestigious Academy of Fine and Industrial Arts in Leningrad, Russia.

His paintings, drawings and sculptures have won numerous awards and are in public and private collections in the United States, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Croatia, Slovakia, Switzerland and France.

He received a Masters Degree in Art from Academy of Fine and Industrial Arts in Leningrad (Sankt Peterburg), Russia and was a professor at St. Johns University, N.Y. and faculty member of Newark School of Fine
and Industrial Arts.

His bronze tableau of seven life–size figures entitled “The Commuters”, sculpted in 1985, is permanently installed in Newark Penn Station.
His book “Reflections” features 17 linocuts, etchings and

mixed media prints has been included in the print collection Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, Russia, New York Public Library New York, USA, Newark Public Library, as well as the Rare Book collection of Library of Saint Bonaventure University.
Peterburg, Russia as a part of “Circus” exhibition.
His 4 Art books are now in the collection of Library of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA since June 2016.

Alevtina Ignatyeva

Alevtina is a many-sided and gifted painter. The main subjects of her works are landscapes, cityscapes, still-lives, genre scenes and flowers. She is a fruitful and industrious painter.
Alevtina was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Russia.

She took part in over fifty shows in Jersey City, New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russia.. She is an active member of the Art Gallery with the Hudson Artist of New Jersey. Alevtina presented on 49th, 50th, 52d ,60th. Annual Regional Art Exhibits in Bayonne Public Library Gallery where she received four awards.

In addition she is a member of the group “Art of Inspiration with Vladimir Andreyev and His Friends” in New York. In 2010, the well-known collector of art work Robert Rothschild obtained her painting

“The Scene at the Bar” (1999). In 2012 he obtained more two painting “Rain on Time Square”(2003), “Three Women (Sally, Mary, Carry)” (2012).
Her art works were put on the International Catalogue “Art of Inspiration” and ” Fine Art the Robert Harris Rothschild Collection”.

In 2006, Alevtina Ignatyeva published her book “Over Years, Over Distances” by Liberty Publishing House in USA. The happenings and twists of fate narrated in the book are keeping readers intensely interested until the last page.