Inna Kulagina

Paintings

August - September 

Visit Inna's Website : www.innakulagina.artistportfolio.net

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Against the Wall Gallery is open Mon., Wed., Fri. & Sat. 10am to 5pm.; Tues. and Thurs. from 10am to 7pm.  We are located in Lincoln’s Historic Havelock area at 6220 Havelock Avenue. Please contact us at (402) 467-3484 or e-mail us at

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My paintings are Expressionistic in spirit. My style is evolving as am I.  The elements and subjects of my paintings have included Light, Color, Landscapes, Figures, Portraits, and Thematic Compositions. I paint mostly using a palette knife and love big canvases.

 I grew up in and became an artist in former Soviet Central Asia. I have lived in Honduras, three states in the USA (Massachusetts, Virginia, and Nebraska), and have been a guest artist in residence in Germany, which has given me ample opportunity to  look at art from the point of view of different cultures, economies, and political systems.

The vibrant colors, ever-present bright sun, and constantly blossoming foliage all around was the present Central America gave to me.  I saw the color of young palms and knew instantly that the sun itself was epitomized in it. I felt so humble in front of this visually stunning magnificent nature filled with color and amazingly transparent shades and hues. Honduras was the first time in my life I became so utterly fascinated with the magic of color. My own pregnancy and the birth of my son brought me to the theme of motherhood. In the first part of my life as an artist I was greatly inspired by the works of such artists as Nicholai Sergeivich Shin (well known in the former USSR but sadly unknown in the West) and David Alfaro Sequeiros, who perceived the world in terms of the revolutionary imperative to bring change, as well as the spirit of the Romanticists of the 19^th Century and  the art of the Early 20^th Century: “Fight for something great by the art you create.”  Now as a mother, perhaps inevitably, I look at the world through a more motherly or maternal perspective.  My art has become more a mirror of myself, of what is going on within me, the mirror of my love of this world and what discoveries are waiting for me behind each canvas, each new discovery in myself and the evolving history of the world around me.