• Home (Gallery) »
• Artist Directory »
• Natasha ROSENBAUM

Gorlovka, Ukraine, 1960

An established Ukrainian artist, Natasha Rosenbaum is known for her atmospheric and fragmental compositions. Her oeuvre focuses largely on the human figure, but aside from this she also offers a range of interesting landscapes and self-portraits.

Most of her recent paintings have a purposefully unfinished and ethereal look, as if they were still under construction. Rather than precise photographic representations of her subjects, her paintings tend to take a more fluid form, somewhere between matter and air and made of apparently quick brushstrokes. The results are at times dark and dense images, at other times colourful and light, but always engaging and imaginative.

Before starting her career as an artist at age 30, Rosenbaum worked as an engineer. She has a degree from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, and later studied at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, in St. Petersburg.

She says of her work: ?The main theme of my oeuvre is studying feelings through painting. Despite the traditional and even slightly banal nature of the object of interest -- female nudes, flowers and landscapes -- the results inhabit a new space with a rarefied atmosphere, where the fragment lays claim to the whole, while the empty spaces and pauses are structured in such a way that they simultaneously fulfil the role of environment and inner object. The environment and object enjoy a close relationship, overflowing into one another.?

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:

2007 - PicassoMio.com

2006 - Formulas. Central House of the Artist. Moscow, Russia. - Figures. The Light Gallery. London, UK.

2005 - Fragments. Central House of the Artist. Moscow, Russia.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2006 - Endlessness of body. International Federation of Artists Exhibition Halls. St. Petersburg, Russia. - Days of Saint-Petersburg. Fair 2006. Nancy, France. - Blau. Mallorca, Spain. - Second Biennale of Graphic Art 2006. Manege Central Exhibition Hall. St. Petersburg, Russia.

2004 - Biennale 2004. Manege Central Exhibition Hall. St. Petersburg, Russia. - Ð?Ð?ХС-2004. Central House of the Artist. Moscow, Russia. - Sounds and Symbols. International Federation of Artists. St. Petersburg, Russia. - A Russian View of Italy. International Federation of Artists. St. Petersburg, Russia. - Justification of Feelings. International Federation of Artists. Moscow, Russia.

2003 - Moscow International Art Salon 2003. Central House of the Artist. Moscow, Russia. - 4th Biennale Internationale 2003. Florence, Italy. - Traditions and Modernity: Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the First Trade Union of Artists in Petrograd. Manege Central Exhibition Hall. St. Petersburg, Russia. - This Strange Magic. Victoria Gallery, Central House of the Artist. Moscow, Russia.

2002 - Sensation of White. International Federation of Artists Exhibition Halls. St. Petersburg, Russia. - Mythology of Existence. House of Nationalities. Moscow, Russia. - Monologues. Catherine Palace. Moscow, Russia. - Monologues. International Federation of Artists Exhibition Halls. St. Petersburg, Russia.

2001 - Salon d?Automne. St. Petersburg Union of Artists. St. Petersburg, Russia.

1998 - Window on the Netherlands. St. Petersburg Union of Artists. St. Petersburg, Russia.