I see this project as poetry. This allows me the liberty to interpret artworks featured in this project, and a freedom from claim as to the accuracy of my interpretations. While being one of the creators of this garden and an integral part of it, I, at the same time, am an outside observer, the same as anyone who enters its grounds.
As an artist, I too often explore the theme of rebirth associated with the cycles of nature. It is especially relevant when spring is almost upon us, on Easter’s Eve, when looking at the bare, blackened soil one asks oneself: “Will new life ever spout on this land? Will it again be covered with a bed of flowers?”
Exhibition: May 25 – June 04, Time: 12 -7 pm Address: Mriya Gallery, 101 Reade St, New York, NY
Presented by Rukh Art Hub and Mriya Gallery Concept: Polina Kuznetsova. Curators: Polina Kuznetsova, Mariia Manuilenko, Olga Severina PR Director: Olga Samofalova, Email
Sinflower series, 2020, oil on canvas, 47 x 43 in, $ 15,000
Alice Konokhova
An epitome of yearning and desire is the “Sinflowers” project by Alice Konokhova. According to the artist, it celebrates the metamorphoses of archetypes of sin and pleasure. “While Charles Baudelaire created ‘Flowers of Evil,’ this project unveils the flowers of sin, where the dogmatic notion of ‘sin’ loses its negative connotation and becomes an outset on the path to ecstasy and pleasure that is physical as well as spiritual.” — Alice explains.
Alice’s paintings are a celebration of life and a triumph of libido; they leave no room for ambiguity and are not for the faint of heart.
Sinflower series, 2020, oil on canvas, 51 x 47 in, $ 15,000Leda, The Violence of Purity, Sinflower series, oil on canvas, 39 x 27 in, 2020, $8,500
Flytrap, Sinflower series, oil on canvas, 34 x 34 in, 2021 $ 12,500
An epitome of yearning and desire is the “Sinflowers” project by Alice Konokhova. According to the artist, it celebrates the metamorphoses of archetypes of sin and pleasure. “While Charles Baudelaire created ‘Flowers of Evil,’ this project unveils the flowers of sin, where the dogmatic notion of ‘sin’ loses its negative connotation and becomes an outset on the path to ecstasy and pleasure that is physical as well as spiritual.” — Alice explains.
Alice’s paintings are a celebration of life and a triumph of libido; they leave no room for ambiguity and are not for the faint of heart.
Make Love and War Sinflower series, oil on canvas, 70 x 78 in, 2021 $ 18,500.00
Polina Kuznetsova, Spring oil on canvas, 2024, 59 x 59 in, $ 19,000
It is an enlivening canvas painted in the war-ravaged Kyiv. The image of a teenage girl draped in an airy rose gown walking towards her future is a vision of a spring reborn — a spirit of hope eternal. The Spring casts off, as if a raven-colored shroud, a somber shadow of left behind sorrows, the cuts on the girl’s wrists are harrowing keepsakes of hellish days of her despondent past. She walks across the sable lands but through the soil verdant seedlings burgeon.
Mykola Kolomiets, Girl with Violas, Love series, pencil on paper, framed, 2011, 35 x 23 in /on request
Mykola Kolomiets, Girl with a Butterfly, Love series, pencil on paper, framed, 2011, 35 x 23 in, on request
Mykola Kolomiets, Girl with Rose, Love series, pencil on paper, framed, 2011 35 x 23 in, on request
Mykola Kolomiets, Girl on a green background, Love series, pencil on paper, framed, 2011, 35 x 23 in, on request
Mykola Kolomiets, Girl with Watermelon, Love series, pencil on paper, 2011 35 x 23 in, on request
Threat series, Fragments
Mykola Kolomiets, Threat series, Digital Print: Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, 2013 47 х 47 in, $ 2,500
“Threat” is a monumental work by Mykola Kolomiets, completed in the spring of 2014. The artist worked on the piece for over two years and the year the project was finished coincided with the start of the war in Ukraine as if the artist was forewarning the harrowing future. A man, deformed, enthralled, enthused by his imagined grandeur, he rises tall above a withered carcass of a broiled dragon. He seems to be looking in the mirror, and liking what he sees, not noticing his hideous disfigurement.
I see this man as an embodiment of evil that now threatens the entire world. His sweeping primitive vulgarity and twisted sets of values allow him to raid, to rape, and to destroy.
Ave Libertatemaveamor, Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 7,5 × 5,5 in, 2022, $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Untitled, watercolor, 6 x 8 in, 2017, $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 5 x 8 in, 2022, $850
Ave Libertatemaveamor,Untitled, watercolor, 2022, 5,5 x 4 in, $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 2022, $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 2022, 7 x 4 in, $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 2022, 7 x 4 in, $850
Ave Libertatemaveamor,Pearl, liner on the paper 7,5 × 5,5 in, $ 650 Ave Libertatemaveamor,Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 2022, 7x 5 in, $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 7 x 4.5 in, 2022, $850
Ave Libertatemaveamor,Seed, liner on the paper, 7,5 × 5,5 in $650Ave Libertatemaveamor,Untitled, watercolor, 2022, 6 x 8 in, $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Untitled, watercolor, 2022, 6 x 4 in $850Ave Libertatemaveamor,Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 2022, 9 x 6 in, $850
Sergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #1, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/3, 77 x 51 in, $1,500Sergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #10, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/4, 19.5 in x 13.5 in, $1,500
Sergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #2, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/3, 39 x 31 inSergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #6, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/4, 27.5 x 18 in, $2,500Sergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #12, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/6, 19.5 x 15.5 in, $1,500Sergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #4, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/6, 19.5x 15.5 in, $1,500
Sergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #3, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/6, 19.5 x 13 in, $1,500Sergey Melnitchenko, Naked Singularity #5, paper Huhnemuhle Rag Baryta 315GSM, Edition 1/6, 19.5 x 15.5 in, $1,500
Tata Kolesnik, Primavera, oil on canvas, 35 × 27 in, 2023 $8,500
Tata Kolesnik, Happiness, oil on canvas, 2023, 47 x 34 in, 2023 $8,500
“In her work, Polina boldly explores the notions of death and destruction on both physical and mental plains. The bodies that she brings to life — they decompose, merge with other living things to form a single being, and turn into the seedbeds that are caring steads for the emerging life.” — Polina Kuznetsova
Polina Verbytska, Dance Macabre, Liner on paper, 2023 35.5 x 23.5 in, $1,500
Polina Verbytska, Fusion and Distribution 1, Liner on paper, 2023, 15.4 x 11,5 in, $850
Polina Verbytska, Spring, Liner on paper, 2023 35.5 x 23.5 in, $1,500
Polina Verbytska, Almost Human (fish), Liner on paper, 2023, 15.5 x 11,5 in, $850
Polina Verbytska, Wonder Women, Liner on paper, 2023, 15.5 x 11,5 in, $850
Polina Verbytska, Fusion and Distribution 2, Liner on paper, 2023, 15.5 x 11,5 in, $850
Polina Verbytska, Yellow-hot, Liner on paper, 2023 15.5 x 11,5in, $850
Polina Verbytska, Almost Human (bird), Liner on paper, 2023, 15.5 x 11,5 in, $850
Valeriia Taracenko, Flower Yellow II, ceramic, 2024, $1,200Valeriia Tarasenko, Green Leaf, ceramic, 2024, $1,200
Miroslava Denisuk, Tiffani’s Kiss, oil on canvas, 27 x 27 in, 2024, $3,500
Diana Ruban, Liza Obuhovska, Sonata, acrylic on canvas, 57 x 39 in, 2023, $6,000
Kateryna Reznichenko, Whispers, 2023, oil on canvas, 52 x 71 in, $9,500
OleksiiRevika, Blue Monkey, pen on paper, framed, 2021 18 × 25 in, $2,000
Oleksii Revika, Two Suns, pen on paper, framed, 2021 16 × 11,5 in, $1,200
Mariko Gelman, Out of the Fog (Hush), oil on canvas, 11 x 15 in, 2021, $1,500
Viktoria Kalaichi, A Flower Tale, oil on canvas, 2024, 27 x 27 in, $16,000
Miguel Bonilla, Astronauta Femenine, Graphite, 2024, 15 x 18 in, $1,500
Miguel Bonilla,Inevitable, Acrylic, ink and graphite 2024, 24 x 24 in, $1,500
Miguel Bonilla,Cansado de las Mentiras, Graphite, 2024, 9 x 12 in, $2,000
Maryna Handysh, Mermades (3 pieces), chamotte, glazes, 2024, 19 x 8 in, $850 each
Anastasiia Mitikova, Blue Irises, watercolor, 2023, 16.5 x 12 in, $1,200Anastasiia Mitikova, Sea Buckthorn, watercolor, 2023, 23 x 15 in, $1,500
Anastasiia Mitikova, Tulip, watercolor, 2023, 18 x 26 in, $1,500Anastasiia Mitikova, Сoral Peony, watercolor, 2023, 19 x 12 in, $1,200Anastasiia Mitikova, Ponsetia, watercolor, 2023, 11 x 17 in, $900
Anastasiia Mitikova, Olive Branch, watercolor, 2023, 16 x 11 in, $1,200Anastasiia Mitikova, Hydrangea, watercolor, 2023, 16 x 11 in, $1,000
Taras Haida, Reincarnation of Faith, oil on canvas, 2023, 55 x 41 in, $7,500
Taras Haida, Metamorphosis oil on canvas, 19 x 19 in, 2022, $3,800Taras Haida, Empathy, 27 x 27 in oil on canvas, 2022, $4,500Taras Haida, Dry Momentum, oil on canvas, 31 x 31 in, 2023, $5,500
