A personal online exhibition of paintings by Oksana Zhuravel (Nadezhdina) “Abstract Saws of Oksana Zhuravel (Nadezhdina)” presents the creative work of a famous Ukrainian painter.
    Zhuravel (Nadezhdina) Oksana Mykhailivna was born on July 18, 1971, in the town of Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) in the family of People’s Artist of Ukraine Mykhailo Nadezhdin.
    A member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2000). A laureate of Kirovohrad Regional Award in Fine Art and History of Art named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in the nomination “modern tendencies” (2012). A laureate of the 1st International Triennial of Painting “In the Land of Grey Pearls” within the All-Ukrainian Project and Competition of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine “ART-NOVA” (Kremenchuk, 2021).
    Graduated from Dnipropetrovsk State Art College named after Ye.V.Vuchetyc, the Department of Set Design, teachers: O.Hodenko, A.Dubovyk (1995) and the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, the Department of History and Theory of Fine Art, teachers: M.Kryvolapov, V.Dzulai, O.Lahutenko (2003).
    During 1995-2008, worked as a teacher in Kirovohrad Children’s Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin. Currently, is a head of an art class in Tarashchansk Children’s Music School in the Kyiv Oblast.
    A participant of city, regional, all-Ukrainian, and international art exhibitions – All-Ukrainian Triennial of Painting (1998, 2001), International Art Exhibition “Modern Art of Ukraine” (Moscow, Russian Federation), the 6th all-Ukrainian Exhibition of Abstract Painting “ART-AKT” (Chernivtsi, 2019), the all-Ukrainian project “Abstract Painting” (Kyiv, 2019). the 3rd All-Ukrainian Exhibition of Abstract Painting (Kyiv, 2020), and the exhibitions of the Nadezhdin family – in Cherkasy Regional Local History Museum (1998), Central House of Artists of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in Kyiv (2006), Kyiv Gallery “ABC- art” (2013), Sumy City Gallery (2014), Museum of Ukrainian Painting in Dnipro (2019).
    The works are kept in the Museum of Art and O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum in Kropyvnytskyi, private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    The creative work is characterized by a bright individual artistic style based on the traditions of abstract art. The significant influence on her development as an artist in the early period of her career had paintings of her father, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Merited Cultural Worker of Ukraine Mykhailo Nadezhdin, created in the manner close to abstract art.
    Abstract art is objectless, configurative art, one of the Avant-Garde Art movements of the 20th century. The philosophical and aesthetic basis of abstract art lies in irrationalism, the transition from the illusive and objective image, absolutization of pure impression, and the self-expression of an artist through geometric figures, lines, color spots. Desire to express spiritual ideas, convey a sense of unity of soul, substance, Universe, space encourage painters for creative search, a pictorial language filled with profound meaning.
    According to Doctor of Art History, Professor, member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine Oleksandr Fedoruk: “Oksana’s works border with the tradition of non-figurative painting. Her pictorial, coloristic improvs “Song”, “Separate Room”, “Composition”, “Almost a Way Out” are colorfully enigmatic, filled with architectonics of color. They resemble a print of instant feelings, an attempt to introduce an absolute efficiency of motion and substance. They feature distinguishable motives of prototypes of Ukrainian culture”. And a famous art historian, Merited Cultural Worker of Ukraine Oleksii Rohotchenko wrote in his article “Realistic non-realism of the Nadezhdin family”: “Oksana’s paintings are associative, elegant, fastidious as to transfers of light and shadow, color and color combinations”.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of twenty paintings created between 1997-2020 from the collections of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, the Museum of Arts in Kropyvnytskyi, and from the author’s collection. “Using the author’s technique close to gesso painting, the artist achieves a deep harmony of tone and color, releasing natural world of coloration. By uniting inner emotion and conscious idea, creates powerful fields of artistic force stress that capture consciousness with their mysteriousness and artistic cogency of abstract saws” - mentioned the leading researcher of the museum, art historian, Merited Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadezhdin in the booklet to the exhibition.