Anastasiia Grygorieva

"Education"

2025

This picture is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy". 100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2018 The picture is ready to hang (edges of a picture is painted) Signed o...

"One for Two" is an oil painting that captures a heartfelt — and slightly cheeky — scene from the natural world. Two sparrows, perched on a radiant sunflower, are caught mid-date, ro...

The picture "Pension Fund" is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy". 100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019 The picture is ready t...

"Sample of Paper" is part of my series "Pathos of the Bureaucracy," a humorous and satirical exploration of bureaucratic inefficiency. Inspired by personal frustrations with social s...

ALEXANDER STOLIN, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland’s traditional art academies. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1992, met his future wife in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then married and settled in New Orleans. He maintains a home and studio in Madisonville, Louisiana, and is a significant but understated figure in the New Orleans art community. As art critic D. Eric Bookhardt suggested in 2002, “Stolin is more accomplished than he is famous.” His art, often exhibited in thematic series that incorporate a variety of media, ranges from intimate portraits to large-scale murals (one measuring twelve feet by seventy-two feet). He has worked on a progressively larger scale, most recently designing and painting projects for the Louisiana film industry. Stolin’s technically proficient and complexly layered art reflects a unique fusion of the academic training he received in Kiev and his evolving response to the very different culture, lifestyle, and subject matter he has discovered in New Orleans, Madisonville, and the Gulf South.   Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans artists including Douglas Bourgeois...

The world of sad, always hurrying adults is covered with weeds. They say: "Don't bother us! Don't get in our way..." Never mind. Draw your beautiful life! :: Painting :: Conte...

"We know that everything around us is energy, the energy of the universe. When an artist paints, images sometimes suddenly appear in her mind. This only means that she is conducting ...

A few old books, a red box, a bottle of brandy and a glass – all lit by a warm light of a desk lamp. We don’t see the lamp itself, but its light glow on all the objects. Ca...