Metamorphoses: Solo Show of Irina Glukhova at the Russian Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts presents a solo show of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Irina Glukhova.

Irina Glukhova represents the Moscow school of art. In the early 1990-s she proved herself as a master of abstract painting. She was much influenced by the work of French impressionists and Russian avant-garde. Her musical education resulted in her paintings containing concealed musical themes expressed in diverse pictorial images. The tonal language of Alexander Scriabin, jazz interpretations of Dizzy Gillespie, swing components can be sensed in such pictures as “Allegro-Moderato”, “Scherzo”, “Improvisation”, “Chord”, “Rhythms of the City” and others.

Contrasts of color combinations in many pictures by Irina Glukhova introduce a viewer into the world of Russian folk culture: “Fiesta”, “Carnival”, “Merry-Go-Round”, “Cockerels”. Of big interest are Irina Glukhova’s water colors. These chamber works are often on display at her numerous solo shows. The artist says: “It is a water color technique that I liked from my childhood which I still continue to use for expression of my thoughts and ideas and their interpretation”. If in her canvases Irina Glukhova emphasizes the brutality of the media used – the surface roughness, dryness of the brush’s sliding on the canvas texture, openness of a thin-layer priming, in her watercolors she tries to reach a pictorial deepness, refined color combinations, inner concentration.

Works by Irina Glukhova are on collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, state museums in Yaroslavl, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Borovsk, Serpukhov, Stavropol, Krasnodar, Tomsk, the Republic of Belarus, as well as in private collections in Russia and other countries.






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