As a child, Anna Katalkina lived in one of the world’s most beautiful cities and experienced some of the world’s greatest art. As an adult, she combines an eye for detail, a penchant for precision, an international perspective and the skill of a Dutch master to produce engaging and thought-provoking still life paintings that make the viewer smile.
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Aleksandra Katergina
The color of a bud opening in spring, dismal gray leafless trees looking slightly reddish from a distance, and the almost crass lemon yellow of blooming daffodils announce the freshness of each new spring. The transformation of dormant life into energetic green and wild color is so powerful that poets wax on about it and artists paint about it. Aleksandra Katargina, a blossoming young painter living in the DC area, is on the same path. She is the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts first Emerging Artist Fellow Winner mounting her first oil painting solo exhibition In Pursuit of Happiness.
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