Bystritskaya Galina Albertovna
Born in Moscow on April 10, 1961. Graduated from the Moscow Printing Institute in 1985. Member of the Moscow branch of the Artists' Union since 1985.
Works in collections
Her works are in the Alexander Gleizer Museum of Contemporary Art in Vladivostok, in the Deutsche Bank collection in Berlin, and in private collections in Russia, Berlin, Hanover, the USA, Yugoslavia, and England.
Exhibitions and auctions
1982: XIV Youth Exhibition, Moscow; 1983: XV Youth Exhibition, Moscow; 1985: XVI Youth Exhibition, Moscow; 1985: All-Union Exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall 'Manege'; 1986: XVII Youth Exhibition, Moscow; 1989: Group exhibition 'Young Artists of Moscow'; 1989: 'Outside Genre', Moscow-Leningrad; 1989: Republican Exhibition 'Youth of Russia'; 1991: XVIII Youth Exhibition, Moscow; 1991: Group exhibition (A. Bukh, V. Elnitskaya, G. Bystritskaya), Gallery 'Na Solyanke', Moscow; 1992: 'Art for Life', Central House of Artists, Moscow; 1992: Solo exhibition, Dresdner Bank Gallery, Berlin; 1992: 'Golden Brush'; 1992: Group exhibition (Smirnov, Bordachev, Bystritskaya), Bern, Switzerland; 1993: Solo exhibition, Deutsche Bank Gallery, Berlin; 1993: Solo exhibition, 'Expo-88' Gallery, Moscow; 1994: Group exhibition (A. Bukh, V. Elnitskaya, G. Bystritskaya), 'Expo-88' Gallery, Moscow; 1995: Solo exhibition 'Within Genre Bounds' with sculptor M. Kalmykova, Central House of Artists, Moscow; 1995: Youth Exhibition, Gallery on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow; 1995: Group exhibition (A. Bukh, V. Elnitskaya, G. Bystritskaya), 'Expo-88' Gallery, Moscow; 1996: Solo exhibition 'Portrait', Central House of Artists, Moscow; 1996: Solo exhibition, 'Art' Gallery.
Author about himself
...My painting is, of course, of the Moscow school of painting. But all these years I have allowed myself to be myself.
...The style of my painting is romantic expressionism.
...I am an optimist...I strive to work with color, the pure color of the Impressionists, and to be as sincere as Rembrandt and Goya...
Critic
...Works without deceit or trickery, created to hang on the wall, not to be part of a performance art involving the cutting of canvases... Her works possess passion and energy, full of allusions and expression...
Anna Chudetskaya, 'Within Genre Bounds,' Stolitsa magazine No. 6, p.76, January 5, 1995.
...Galina Bystritskaya's painting represents a significant move toward a new perception of the world, reconciling freedom with a sense of security, inequality and their fundamental unity...
Artemy Blitz, 'The Art of Love,' p.21, Russian Courier, monthly supplement No. 9, 'Literature and Art.'
...Galya Bystritskaya, seeking expressive self-expression, builds her spiritual cosmos by the great stars... The laws of harmony and rhythm, mastered by her, are embodied in the visible forms of the material world...
K.G. Bogemskaya, Candidate of Art Criticism, from the article for the exhibition catalog 'For Three', November 23-December 7, 1991.
Bibliography
'Moscow Artist', November 22, 1991; Monthly Supplement No. 9, 'Literature and Art', 1991; Booklet for group exhibition 'A. Bukh, V. Elnitskaya, G. Bystritskaya', article by art expert K.G. Bogemskaya, November-December 1991; 'EXPO-88' Gallery Catalog, 1992; 'Moscow Artist', October 15, 1993; 'Kommersant-daily', September 29, 1993; 'Literary Gazette', October 20, 1993; 'Moscow Guardian', September 1993; International Newspaper '24', October 14, 1994; 'Moscow Artist', March 10, 1995; A. Chudetskaya, 'Within Genre Bounds', Stolitsa magazine, January 1995; Booklet for solo exhibition at the Central House of Artists, 1995.
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