Original Oil Painting
Anna Livna
Bio
Anna Livna is an expressionist artist, born and raised in Perm, Russia. Here she studied the basics of painting and graphics at the Classic Art School (1996 - 2001). In 2004, she moved to Yekaterinburg and began studying Design at the Academy of Architecture and Art (2004 - 2008). After studying, she worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. In 2015, Anna returned to art and began to create oil paintings.
In 2018, in search of a major change in her life, Anna moved to California, USA, to build a career in the arts. She had to start life from scratch, learn English, develop networking, at first Anna worked as a designer. This period was reflected in Anna's art as a period of change in her creative language. In an attempt to help herself adapt to a new environment, she came to the main theme of her art - self-exploration of her personal experience as a woman, as an artist, as a migrant through painting. Anna's art can be characterized as a reflection of human experience through self-knowledge, offering the viewer the opportunity to find their own path.
Anna currently works as a full-time artist from her home studio in Irvine, CA. Her unique artworks can be found in private collections in different countries, including the USA, Europe, China, and Russia.
In 2018, in search of a major change in her life, Anna moved to California, USA, to build a career in the arts. She had to start life from scratch, learn English, develop networking, at first Anna worked as a designer. This period was reflected in Anna's art as a period of change in her creative language. In an attempt to help herself adapt to a new environment, she came to the main theme of her art - self-exploration of her personal experience as a woman, as an artist, as a migrant through painting. Anna's art can be characterized as a reflection of human experience through self-knowledge, offering the viewer the opportunity to find their own path.
Anna currently works as a full-time artist from her home studio in Irvine, CA. Her unique artworks can be found in private collections in different countries, including the USA, Europe, China, and Russia.
Artist's Statement
Life is an attempt to balance in flight, to find support and security.
“Know yourself, and you will know the gods and the universe,” says the statement on the ancient Apollo temple wall in Delphi, Greece. Self-knowledge is the core of my art concept.
I reinterpret my personal experience as a woman, as an artist, as a migrant in the context of Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”, the Monomyth concept. These are the spirals of my path: I go to the frontier, to the unknown when I feel the need for change, go through challenges, and come out of them renewed.
Migration is one of the themes that I explore in my art, the symbolic death of the past, rebirth in a new quality, adaptation to a new environment, the search for identity. I am part of Russian history and I am part of the modern US history as a migrant. I leave behind the feeling of insecurity and take with me my cultural code, fortitude, courage and willingness to face challenges, the intention to live happily and fight for myself, and I also leave a place for faith in miracles.
Color and contrast are the dominant elements in my art. That's why I like working with oil paints, this medium has a very rich color rendition. Color is a representation of certain states. Red symbolizes the inner fire, the desire to feel, the need to love, it is like the blood flowing inside the picture, like life itself.
The blue color represents periods of rethinking, going to the frontier, a liminal state, and freezing.
Through self-knowledge, I rethink human traumas and talk about my overcoming experience. I offer the viewer the opportunity to find their path, transform and enter a new stage of the “Hero’s Journey”.
“Know yourself, and you will know the gods and the universe,” says the statement on the ancient Apollo temple wall in Delphi, Greece. Self-knowledge is the core of my art concept.
I reinterpret my personal experience as a woman, as an artist, as a migrant in the context of Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”, the Monomyth concept. These are the spirals of my path: I go to the frontier, to the unknown when I feel the need for change, go through challenges, and come out of them renewed.
Migration is one of the themes that I explore in my art, the symbolic death of the past, rebirth in a new quality, adaptation to a new environment, the search for identity. I am part of Russian history and I am part of the modern US history as a migrant. I leave behind the feeling of insecurity and take with me my cultural code, fortitude, courage and willingness to face challenges, the intention to live happily and fight for myself, and I also leave a place for faith in miracles.
Color and contrast are the dominant elements in my art. That's why I like working with oil paints, this medium has a very rich color rendition. Color is a representation of certain states. Red symbolizes the inner fire, the desire to feel, the need to love, it is like the blood flowing inside the picture, like life itself.
The blue color represents periods of rethinking, going to the frontier, a liminal state, and freezing.
Through self-knowledge, I rethink human traumas and talk about my overcoming experience. I offer the viewer the opportunity to find their path, transform and enter a new stage of the “Hero’s Journey”.
Artist Anna Livna
Irvine, California, US
Upcoming events
September 1st – September 30th 2024
Unlocked Identities Group exhibition, Perseus Gallery, New York.
Group exhibition of Contemporary Art on the theme "Unlocked Identities".
Perseus Gallery, 456 W Broadway, Soho, New York, NY 10012.
Perseus Gallery, 456 W Broadway, Soho, New York, NY 10012.
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Feel free to write. I like to communicate with the Art lovers.
anna.livna@gmail.com
Irvine, CA, USA, 92618
