That was a week of Brooklyn, with a very bright sky of December sensations and weather. The bright sky of December and the piercing cold wind sweeping the deserted streets. I saw the special graphics of Brooklyn's landscape. Its practical and harsh urbanism has always had a peculiar charm for me. The subject that had been reproduced millions of times and became a cliche, was colored with fresh colors for me. It all clicked organically.  I saw MY OWN New York.

The series of 15 Brooklyn views was created a year later, in 2015.

The works have been performed on glass, using the technique of two-sided printing with 3D effect and the paper version with raised printing.

New York walks

Horses

Memories of Greece

Is it possible to resist the temptation to make your remake of "Infanta" Velazquez? So I succumbed to this temptation back in 2009. Since then, I cannot stop. This connection through the centuries shows both the past and the present single matter.
The new version of Infanta's art collection is coming soon. And then there will definitely be a continuation.


After Velazquez

Usually, artists paint on canvas with a brush and paints. But this is not my case. I wanted to combine several techniques in one material. With the help of acrylic paints and stencil masks, it was possible to make a colored relief substrate, which is then applied to a graphic image using the screen printing method. Due to the use of oil silk-screen paints in the graphics part, I achieved high relief. The result was a surface with a rich textured solution. In combination with a bright palette, it turns out a work of contemporary art with enhanced materiality. You can not only look at the artwork but also touch it.

Live Package

I often hear this about my FLOWERS series of works, “Inspired by Andy Warhol”, this is both true and not true. Many great artists have created their own versions of this eternal subject, from the Dutch still-life paintings of the 17th century and the artists of the Renaissance era. I’m delighted both with Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, and Alex Katz’s floral panel paintings and Tom Wesselman's aluminum bouquets. I was able to create that series when I felt something “of my own”, and it seems to me it was a success.

The series has been embodied in complicated 3D panel paintings made from wood and plastic and painted with acryl, glass prints with the use of two-sided printing technology and 3D effect, and two paper versions of the prints.

Flowers

I’ve always had the desire for greater materialization of my art objects. The most obvious solution for achieving it became 3D art objects and flat relief sculptures. They all preserve the color scheme that is present in my prints and paintings performed using acrylic paints, only with the additional power of volume and tangible embodiment appearing. The special fascination of 3D objects is that they have different projections of the image at different angles of view, thus creating a great variety of images in one art object. I believe that all my works are ultimately 3D objects. Even paper works have a spacial concept inside the space of the frame.

Wall art 3D

One gloomy rainy day, I was looking for inspiration while flipping through the pages of old VOGUE magazines, of which I had several large dusty piles. The end of the “big glamour” era insisted that I express my attitude to it and leave a trace. Irony and transformation, this is what I wanted at that moment. Matt acryl, instead of glamorous gloss. To simplify the forms, reducing them to minimum, and to achieve maximum expressiveness by so doing. That was what I wished for. The result was laconic and vivid, completely different from the magazine. But it was a new reality that had emerged.

The works have been performed with acrylic paints on wooden panels. They have a pronounced relief.

From the Vogue

In My geometry series, you can see the obvious link to my favorite Russian Constructivist artists, such as Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Malevich, and of course, their follower, Mark Rothko. In this series, I want to express my view and demonstrate my temper by means of usual sets of elements through the advanced features that are available to today's artists.

The use of "liquid glass" effect is of particular importance, adding new materiality and spatial option to pictures. Reflection of the outside world on the glossy surface gives additional interactive communication with the existing reality.

Andrey Odinzzov