Elena Alyabyeva
b. Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1985
y. active 2017 - present
Rain Over Town
pen, marker on paper, 5.5 x 8.3 in
Created on May 5, 2022
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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.
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This drawing is a retrospective and a coda to the series. Here we see heavy mountains literally hanging over and a violent rain that is trying to wash off the past. Its drops explode against the surface of the river bringing memories of the not so distant past. A small and unstable bridge almost invites us out of the picture and the “blurry” technique that Elena used here reminds us that this is just a memory.
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.
