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Elena Alyabyeva

b. Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1985

y. active 2017 - present

Raining

pen, marker on paper, 8.3 x 5.5 in

Created on April 7, 2022

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See all of the works in the exhibit HERE

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At the time of drawing, the artist was in the city of Uzhhorod, far western Ukraine. She fled Kharkiv with her whole family to escape the war and now lives in a school gym adapted to accept refugees. She creates her works there or while walking around the city.

$4,000 - sold as the collection of 8

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In this drawing Elena came out on the street and it began to rain. In Kharkiv Elena never liked rain, but here, in Uzhhorod, she wanted for it to go on. Flashes and even explosions can be seen in the violent sky reflecting on Elena’s experience back home. She watched all of those memories come down, crash against the pavement, and break into million droplets in order to be washed away by the streams of rainwater.

Elena graduated from Kharkiv Art Lyceum and continued her education by taking private lessons. She has a unique and peculiar style where strong, determined strokes and bold colors are balanced by the softness of the subject. The war has changed the mood of her paintings. Her first personal art show was in Kharkiv in 2021 and a few months later she exhibited with the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Her works are in private collections in Germany, Denmark, Poland, and the United States.

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