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Bid now to own one of these five Oil Paintings by acclaimed Fine Artist Luba Sterlikova. These paintings were exclusively created for the exhibits dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Ballets Russes in 2009. They have been exhibited at the Russian Art Fair in London (2009), the Russian Cultural Center in Paris (2009), the Solzhenitsin Museum of the Russian Abroad in Moscow (2009), the Eastern and Oriental Fine Arts Fair in London (2010), Windsor Art Fair, UK (2010), Norman Parish Gallery in Washington (2011), the All-Russian Decorative Arts Museum in Moscow (2014).
Artist: Luba Sterlikova
Title: Blue Bird, Firebird,Giselle,Peacock,Scheherazade
Year created: 2009/2010
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (inches): 48
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
Width (inches): 30/24
Depth (inches): 1/1.5
Artist bio:
Russian born, Luba Sterlikova currently resides in the US and is known to the artistic community as LUBA. Both Russian and American influences can be detected in her work, as the Eastern vivid colors blend symbiotically with more Western shapes and structure.
Luba's art is in the art collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, USA; The Bakhrushin Museum, Russia; The National Museum of the Republic of Kaszakhstan; The National Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia, The Art Museum of Khanty-Mansijsk, Russia, and the National Library of Russia, as well as in the private collections in the USA, UK, France, Germany, China, Russia, Belgium.
She has been exhibited internationally, including USA, China, France, India, United Kingdom, Spain, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Russia.
There is a great variety of a subject matter in her art – from florals, to figurative art, to abstract works. She uses oil pastel, a medium not widely explored by the artists, charcoal, acrylics and oil. She also creates installations and video installations.
Luba Sterlikova’s recent works are in her unique style that the art critic called “innergism”, or “energy art”. Using a spiral shape as an essential construct, the artist creates multi-dimensional variations on the painting surface.
Her floral works are often compared to that of American icon Georgia O’Keefe, but Luba’s passionate approach is undeniably her own. Keshav Malik, Indian art critic, called Luba’s work ’a juicy genre, as rich as Keats, the poet’s fruity poems.’ The artist’s interest goes beyond stylizing natural forms. Rather, Luba explores shape and color to evoke in each composition an expression that is both provocative and poignant. Characterized as intense and exotic, Luba’s floral compositions strike a balance between the bold and the graceful; they are simultaneously intense and delicate. Luba’s work has been referred to as provocative and sexually charged, although she prefers to call it romantic. Her now famous floral impressionism series, is complimented by still life images of fruit and vegetables such as plums, apricots, eggplant and squash, produced in the same stylized manner as the sybaritic botanical subjects. In a controversial incident, she was asked to remove some of her sensually-themed works from a major corporation for fear of sexual harassment lawsuits. The episode only served to render Luba’s work more collectible and much in demand Luba is active on the Washington, DC art scene, and for many years has been involved with International Artist Support Group (IASG) and WPA/Corcoran, Washington,DC,USA. Since 2004, Sterlikova is associate academician of Academia Internazionale "GRECI-MARINO", Italy. The same year she became a member of International Federation of Artists & National Artist's Union of Russia. Ms. Sterlikova is a member of L’Association Pour la Promotion des Artistes et des Createurs, Paris, France and Oil Pastel Society, USA, and Moscow Artist Union, Russia. Luba is a founding member of the Inspired by Russia art project. She has also served as a curator of several projects and is an author of articles on the history of art.
