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Artist Statement:
Award-winning painter Yana
Movchan
Yanina (Yana) Movchan was born
in Kiev in 1971. Yana’s
sublime mastery of the
technique and structure of
Renaissance painting combines
with the instinctive symbolism
of “magical realism” to create
a personal neo-realist idiom.
Her work is formal yet also
playful, contemporary yet ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Awards/Highlights
2007 Glenn Gould Foundation
commission. Commemorative
portrait of the celebrated
pianist to mark the 75th
anniversary of his birth
2001 Best Painting Award,
Annual Juried Show, Toronto
Outdoor Art Exhibition
1995 Golden Fund Prize (the
highest art award in the
Ukrainian Art Academy) for
“Life on Earth” (triptych...
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Artist Galleries:
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Just when you thought nobody would ever again paint like Velazquez or Zurbaran or the 17th-century Dutch still-life painters, along comes this young woman named Yana Movchan, with her traditional art training in Kiev and, her hallucinatingly detailed paintings of piles of fruit and vegetables with attendant dragonflies, salamanders, frogs, birds, unearthly cats fulminating with consciousness, chunks of mouldering cheese, bread crumbs, and goblets and compotes so glassy and sheer you feel they'll shatter if you raise your voice. But, as curator Sophie Hackett points out in the YYZ paper accompanying the show, Movchan's creatures and food stuffs and objects do make a place for themselves in our insistently surreal world: "Who decided a wine carafe would be a perfect goldfish bowl?", writes Hackett, or that a lemon's rind would come in a green "too acidic for the 17th century?" Movchan clearly did, in her eccentric and breath takingly obsessive pursuit of what she calls "holistic permanence: a complete engagement with what outlasts our human foibles."
—The Globe and Mail, May 10, 2003
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