Maritime Art Gallery of the Odessa Port
presents
from July 25 till August 11, 2008
exhibition of paintings by
Polina Zinoveeva
Odessa-Sea

1996-2001 studies at the Art and Graphics Department of the South Ukrainian Pedagogical University.
Active participation in open-air painting sessions, regional, national and international exhibitions since 1999.
2003-2008 eight solo exhibitions in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, Odessa and Krakow.
The artist creates landscapes, still life paintings and portraits.
Member of the National Artists’ Union of Ukraine since 2008.
The artist’s works are in private collections in many countries of the world.

Polina Zinoveeva is one of the most fascinating and interesting Odessa artists who emerged in the past years.  
The ringing silence of her landscapes, the elegance of her still life paintings and the humble grace of her portraits attract the attention of public to the works of this young yet already mature master painter.
There is a musical term “overtone”. It means an individual uniqueness of a live voice which makes it always easy to recognize.
Zinoveeva has her own artistic overtone. Besides, she is very devoted to her work as a painter, she is very diligent and well-trained.
Her favorite professor in the art institute was the unforgettable Orest Sleshinsky who spoke with great respect about the professional and personal qualities of Polina. And personal qualities are extremely important because the quality of a canvas depends on it.
The artists tends to treat paints as an elastic mass that has physically tangible plasticity.
In her paintings form is never separated from reality but it is always lyrically generalized. Maybe that’s why the artist’s urban landscapes are so charming. It is as if they were free from all the redundancies, thanks to which color accents are more distinct (“Evening on Lanzheronovskaya Street”, “Corner of Sadovaya Street”, “On Primorsky Boulevard”, “Vorontsovsky Side Street”). And the sea is present in all her works; it is not painted, it is invisible yet it is there as an accompanying element, as a source of light and freshness of the artist’s lyrical urbanistics. Polina’s interest in generalization of form is connected with the need to learn the laws of structure of the main natural elements: steppe, hills, sea shore (“Lighthouse. Sanzheika”).
In this sense she is a follower of Orest Sleshinsky and is already capable of reaching the same level of the great master.

Ludmila Saulenko