Exhibition of graphics by Olga Yukhtina-Geygan "Out of a suitcase"

The works of Olga Yukhtina-Geygan presented in the exposition are a landing from London. Their appearance in St. Petersburg in a small suitcase turned into this small exhibition. Her graphics, like her painting, are multi-layered. The first layer is either etching or monotype (in the final version we may not even see this), and then a new painting, in which there are still many layers. It is this fact of the appearance of one picture on top of another, the imposition of one on the other, and attracts attention to painting in graphics.

Figurative, deeply personal, Olga’s works reflect the artist’s path with his eternal theme of alienation. Her canvases are independent, independent worlds, where lonely figures or pairs of figures that are not connected with each other emerge from a rich color texture, as if they were found by the artist in a layer of paint. The figures are extremely touching and even slightly disturbing, with a curious mixture of pathos and irony, slightly reminiscent of the paintings of Velazquez and Vermeer, where isolated characters hold us with their distant gaze. Her still lifes with objects are also isolated, like figures, and painted almost on the verge of abstraction. Speaking about painting, I would like to note that the color and perfectly balanced composition echo the rich canvases of the Dutch and Spanish schools.

Olga Yukhtina-Goygan was born in 1965 in the city of Ukhta, Komi ASSR.

From the age of eleven she studied at the Special Art School. Ioganson at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad. After graduation, she entered the Institute. IE Repin, where she graduated from the studio of the famous theater artist E. S. Kochergin. She defended her diploma with honors.

Since 1998 he has been living and working in London. She took part in various exhibitions in Europe and Russia. Works are in private collections in the UK, France, Japan, Belgium, Norway, Austria and the USA.

Exhibitions / selectively /

2019 International Exhibition The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2018 Solo Exhibition Out of Place, Solo Exhibition, Gateway Gallery, 116 Ashley Road, Hale, Cheshire
2017 Group Exhibition People Watching, Group Exhibition, Gateway Gallery, 116 Ashley Road, Hale, Cheshire
2016 Kusadasi International Painting Workshop, Kusadasi Municipal Gallery, Kusadasi, Turkey
2015 Solo exhibition Galerie la Ruine, Rue de Vollande, Geneva, Switzerland
2014 Solo exhibition Cloisters Barristers Chambers, Pump Court, Inner Temple, London
2013 Modena Gallery, Annual Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
2012 Solo exhibition Galerie la Ruine, Rue de Vollande, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 Scottish-Russian Forum, 9 South College St., Edinburgh, Scotland
2010 Marbella International Art Festival, Marbella, Spain
2008 Scottish-Russian Forum, 9 South College St., Edinburgh, Scotland
2006 Exhibition for the 250th Anniversary Exhibition of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew Garden and Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street, London
2005 Annual Exhibition at the Prince Charles Drawing School, London
2004 Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portraitists, The Mall Gallery, London
2003 Group exhibition L’Yonne Gallery, Auxerre, Burgundy, France
2002 Exhibition “Views of the Thames”, Waterstone’s, Picadilly, London
2001 John Martin Gallery Summer Exhibition, Albermarle St., Picadilly, London
2000 Personal exhibition Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
1999 Group exhibition Highbury Gallery, London
1998 Personal exhibition. "House of Friendship", St. Petersburg
1989-1997 Participation in zonal exhibitions of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg, Manege, Isaac’s Square
1992 Group exhibition 1020 Gallery. Vienna. Austria
1991 "Pelya’s Pharmacy", Merz Gallery, London, England
1990 Group exhibition Concordia Foundation, London, England