The virtual exhibition of the works of applicants for admission to the National Union of Artists of Ukraine is organized by the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum together with the Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in accordance with the Regulations on the Procedure for Admission to the Members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Professional creative workers and creative unions" and the Charter of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of the creative works of Kropyvnytskyi artists Iryna Kukharenko and Yulia Malezhik, who are applicants for admission to the membership of the NUAU(the National Union of Artists of Ukraine).
    Kuharenko Iryna Oleksandrivna was born in Kazan (Tatarstan, Russian Federation). She graduated from the Kazan Engineering and Construction Institute, now the State University of Architecture and Construction, Faculty of Architecture (1990). She worked as an architect in the Department of Urban Planning, Architecture, Land Management and Land Use of the Kirovohrad City Executive Committee, Deputy Head of the Department of Regional Development, Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kirovohrad Regional State Administration - Head of Department - Chief Architect of the Region. She works creatively in watercolor and painting techniques. Participant of all-Ukrainian and international art exhibitions - the Second All-Ukrainian and International Biennale Exhibition "Sea of Watercolors" (Odesa, 2018), the 10th All-Ukrainian and 1st International Exhibition "Graphics in Kharkiv" (Kharkiv, 2019), the Jubilee All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition, dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the birth of I.Yu. Repina (Kharkiv, 2019), Exhibition of graphic works of modern Ukrainian artists as part of the All-Ukrainian cultural and artistic project "Picturesque Ukraine" (Kropyvnytskyi, 2019), Third All-Ukrainian and International Biennale Exhibition "Watercolor Sea" (Odesa, 2020), All-Ukrainian Christmas Exhibition (Kyiv, 2020), the exhibition "In the land of gray pearls" as part of the All-Ukrainian creative project - the "ART-NOVA" competition (Kremenchug, 2020), the All-Ukrainian and International exhibition "Graphics in Kharkiv" (Kharkiv 2021), as well as regional charitable art exhibitions-auctions. Personal exhibitions of graphic works were exhibited in the O.O.Osmyorkin Art Memorial Museum - "Vernisage" (2012), "The World in Watercolor" (2017) and "Graphics of Iryna Kukharenko" for the Day of Architecture of Ukraine (2020). The works are stored in the Art Museum and the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum in Kropyvnytskyi, in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    The exhibition presents 23 graphic and pictorial works by Iryna Kukharenko: landscapes from the series "Picturesque Corners of Ukraine", "History of Wooden Architecture" and "Architectural Monuments of the City of Kropyvnytskyi", as well as portraits and still lives made in 2009-2021 . Iryna Kukharenko's watercolors are distinguished by their fragility, lightness, and saturation of light. The simplicity of the motives of her still lives hides the lyricism and poetry of the subject images, and the wide geography of the artist's travels is reflected in the aerial perspective and transparency of the landscape sketches and architectural sketches, the graphic accuracy and admiration for the details of the decorations created by the architects of past centuries are impressive. The portraits of native people are made with particular sincerity, in which the characteristic features of each are realistically conveyed. Iryna Kukharenko's works focus the viewer's attention on the value and uniqueness of every minute of life, obtaining aesthetic pleasure from the contemplation of the surrounding nature and architectural landscapes.
    Yulia Mykolayivna Malezhik was born in Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi). She graduated from Kirovohrad (now Central Ukrainian) State Pedagogical University named after  Volodymyr Vinnichenko with a major in "Elementary Education and Fine Arts" (2001). Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Art Education, Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Arts, Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vinnichenko. She works creatively in the field of easel graphics, painting, decorative art. She is the participant of all-Ukrainian and international art exhibitions - All-Ukrainian exhibition "Painted steppe" (Kropyvnytskyi, 2016), All-Ukrainian Christmas exhibition (Kyiv, 2018), Exhibition of graphic works of modern Ukrainian artists within the framework of the All-Ukrainian cultural and artistic project "Picturesque Ukraine" (Kropyvnytskyi, 2019) , International exhibition of watercolor painting "DNI-PRO" (Cherkasy, 2019), All-Ukrainian exhibition on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of I.P. Kotlyarevsky's "ENEIDA (Aeneid )" (Poltava, 2019), the 13th All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition "Magic Colors of the Dnipro" (Dnipro, 2020), the Third All-Ukrainian and International Biennial Exhibition "Sea of Watercolors" (Odesa, 2020), the Exhibition of the First Biennial of Naive Art and art of primitivism "Velour Cat" named after Andriy Lipatov to the All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Workers and Masters of Folk Art (Kropyvnytskyi, 2020), the All-Ukrainian Exhibition "Luben Art Spring - 2021" (Lubny, Poltava Oblast, 2021). In 2019, as a curator, she presented an exhibition of works of art by students of the Department of Fine Arts and Design of the Art Faculty of the Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vinnichenko "Edges of Creativity" as part of the museum's youth art project "New Generation". The works are stored in the Museum of Art in Kropyvnytskyi, in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    The exhibition presents 23 author's graphic, painting and decorative works of Yulia Malezhik, made in 1995-2020. In her compositions, an amazing flight of fantasy is impressive, subordinated to philosophical reflections on the place of man in the universe, his role in the processes of life creation and problems of communication with the natural environment. A subtle sense of style, the special charm of the artistic dimension of linear space, the culture of using the language of line, stroke and plane in the rhythms of restrained use of color fascinate with the plasticity of forms, awaken the desire for creativity, and encourage the awareness of the irresistible power of fine art.