Alyona Azernaya

Alyona Azernaya (in russian: Алёна Азёрная), born March 9, 1966, Ekaterinburg, Russia is a contemporary Russian naïve painter. Her name has been transliterated from Russian as : Alyona Azernaya, Alena Azernay, Aliona Azernaia, Elena Azernaya, Aliona Aziornaya.

Biography

Alyona Azernaya was born in 1966, in Ekaterinburg.

In 1989 she graduated in architecture from Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture (now called Urals Academy of Architecture).
In 1999 she graduated in art critic from Ural State Academy of Visual Arts.

In 1990 she worked as an interior designer and began to paint. Since 1996 she has dedicated her time exclusively to painting.

Since 1997 she is Member of Artists Trade Union of Russia.

In 2000 she was noticed by former Soviet dissident, founder of th
Museum of Contemporary Russian Art
(New Jersey - USA), who included in 2001, 7 of her works in its permanent collection.

In 2003 she was Resident Artist at th

(Paris).

She has done numerous exhibitions in Russia, in the US, in Italy and in France.

Works

Alyona Azernaya is a painter of naïve style.

Through her representational and dreamlike compositions she describes a personal world, where she mixes slavic mythology, Russian traditional tales and biblical narratives. She associates a naïve drawing with skillful use of colors and motives."The Beachcomber", April 2001 "Aliona Aziornaya : paints a colorful dream world" These deep and generous colors are just like nature which surrounds her and which dominates the majority of her paintings. They are also widely inspired by colors used in the Russian tradition from the inside of the peasant houses, to icones which decorate churches.

Exhibitions

* 1992 Exhibition "Helen" at the Picture gallery, (St. Petersburg, Russia)
* 1993 Exhibition at the House of Art Workers; (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 1996 Exhibition at the Ekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 1996 Exhibition at the Picture Gallery, (Krasnovishersk, Russia)
* 1999 Exhibition at the Center Artists House on Crymski Val Street, (Moscow, Russia)
* 1999 Exhibition "Capital" at the Picture Gallery, (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 2000 Exhibition "Unseen Russia," Vashon Island, (Washington - USA)
* 200
Permanent collection
at the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (New Jersey - USA)
* 2001 Exhibition at the Global Art Venue, Seattle, (Washington - USA)
* 2002 Exhibition "Stamens and Pistils" at the Atrium Palace Hotel (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 2002 Referencing at th

(Lakewood, Colorado - USA)
* 2002 Exhibition at the Kronos Gallery, Vashon Island, (Washington - USA)
* 200

at the International City of the Arts (Paris, France).
* 2003 Exhibition "Spring Rhapsody" at the Noah Ark Gallery (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 2004 Exhibition at the 3° Biennale of Modern Art at Belyaevo Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
* 200
Exhibition "Hunting"
(with Anna Metelova) Philarmonia (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 200

at the Ekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 200
Exhibition "Russian Still Life"
at the Grant Gallery SOHO (New York, NY - USA)
* 200
Exhibition "Water Signs"
(with Anna Metelova) Ekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 200
Exhibition "Christmas in me"
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 200
Exhibition "Russian traditional tales"
Philarmonia (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 200

Museum of Sverdlovsk Railways (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
* 201

(Cannes, France).

Gallery

Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_051.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Bereginya 2000
Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_19.jpg, Alyona Azernaya, Bear - the
owner of a wood 2003
Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_020.JPG, Alyona Azernaya,
Cat in red boots 2003
Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_021.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Stork 2003
Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_023.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
The mermaid 2004
Image:ALYONA AZERNAYA 018a.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Wise bird Sirin 2004
Image:ALYONA AZERNAYA 21a.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Two birds and fish 2005
Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_022.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Dažbog, 2007
Image:ALYONA AZERNAYA 18a.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
The ancient god 2007
Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_05.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Money Tree, 2007
File:ALYONA AZERNAYA 03.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Russian winter, 2009
Image:ALYONA_AZERNAYA_07.jpg, Alyona Azernaya,
Genesis, 2009

References

External links

Official Website of the artist



* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110721015212/http://citedesarts.pagesperso-orange.fr/ad-expo-10(2)-12-03.htm International City of the Arts (Paris, France)
Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art (Ekaterinburg, Russia)




Philarmonia Museum (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
(in Russian)

Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
(in Russian)

Grant Gallery (New York, USA)






* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20130627174824/http://rus-art.com/painters/aziornaia/default.htm Gallery of Modern Ural Art
Russian Cultural Center of Texas

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1966 births
Living people
Naïve painters
20th-century Russian painters
21st-century Russian painters