GIANT Spotlight: Meet Alena Kuznetsova
We are honored to welcome Alena Kuznetsova to The GIANT Room, who will join us from Kyiv, Ukraine for a special FREE live online workshop focused on the abstract art and painting.
Watch GIANT creative prompt inspired by her work and join us live online on Saturday March 19th at 10am to learn and create with her.
Alena received a complete higher education in the specialty “Fine Arts” (Kyiv National University of Building and Architecture, 2008), and has been teaching academic painting and color studies since 2010. Her work focuses in the genre of non-objective painting, and have been exhibited in many galleries and museums.
I her words: My aims and visions in art change from year to year and this is the concept of my approach: the changes. Our world develops and accelerates the farther the faster. We have to live within the crazy waterfall of information, images, and messages, that we are attacked by in our daily lives. I’ve been always interested in themes of time, inconstancy, space (environment), consciousness, nature, body, the meanings of communication in a vastly changing world. Installation, abstract art (color) either figurative painting or video – all these media are good for me if they get to the heart of the idea.
As an artist in a developing country, I step the rule “If you have a cross to bear I guess it’s fair to use it as a crutch”. I use art to curate my consciousness within the global processes and research the truth, making it somehow magical and inspiring. I feel myself like an antenna that gathers inner and outer, micro and macro, personal and social, spiritual and nature together and tries to find the balance between and not to get lost. Art remembers me to be sincere and it’s a great gift I’m willing to share.
Join our live workshop with Alena Kuznetsova and create abstract paintings reflecting your own sensations… In her abstract painting, Alena’s goal is to discover new techniques, find balance in color and be true to her style. In her words, “The key to understanding non-figurative color painting is attention to your sensations.”
Alena Kuznetsova will join us live from Kyiv Ukraine. Participants will have the chance to ask her questions about her work and about the war in Ukraine, the terrible plight of those who are fleeing and those who are staying. To support Ukrainian civilians, please consider donating to the following organizations:
Razom for Ukraine
Razom is a non-profit organization that supports people from Ukraineacross the world. Currently, the organization is working on funding and shipping medical supplies to Ukraine.
The Voices of Children Foundation has been providing psychological and psychosocial support to children in Ukraine since 2015.
Nova Ukraine
Nova Ukraine helps civilians in Ukraine. They organize humanitarian aid, including food, baby and hygiene products, and household supplies.