Vasylyna Buryanyk

Vasylyna Buryanyk

Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine

About Vasylyna Buryanyk

The main source of inspiration for my art are the kingdoms of plants and animals as well as the quality of the relationship between humanity and nature. Images/characters that fill my canvas are metamorphic and imaginary. The presence of mythical creatures in literature, film and visual arts in general is, in my opinion, an indicator and criteria of spirituality, kinship between humans and wildlife. The disappearance of such characters from art can mean the transformation of the relationship between modern people and nature in a more pragmatic direction, sometimes exclusively consumer-oriented or in the worst case - destructive. Whether there is a connection between the disappearance of imaginary and mythical characters and the disappearance of animals in the real world, and whether it would be ever possible to return romance in the relationship between humans and nature - this is my main contemplation during the creation of my paintings. Panels are made of synthetic and natural fabrics, with a sewing-attach method, burning, and custom printing on fabric. When creating paintings I often use the manufactory, print fabrics which, in my opinion, are as close to real colors of animal or plant world. Through transparent fabrics I try to achieve the effect of ephemerality, elusiveness of the image and to transmit laminate of landscapes.

Education:

2008 - 2010 Lviv National Academy of Arts. The Department of Textile Art, Master’s degree diploma with honours
2004 - 2008 Lviv National Academy of Arts. The Department of Textile Art, Bachelor’s degree diploma with honours
2000 - 2004 Adalbert Erdeli Uzhhorod College of Arts. The Department of Design, Junior Specialist’s degree diploma with honours
1992 - 2000 Shandor Petofi Children’s School of Arts. Speciality: Fine Arts

Events:

2013 Participant of the Gaude Polonia Grant Program, Warsaw, Poland
2012 Krymsko-Polski Plener Mlodych Artystow, Crimea, Ukraine
2011 Krymsko-Polski Plener Mlodych Artystow, Crimea, Ukraine
2010 The Kinburn Spit Symposium, Kinburn Spit, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine
2010 Participant at the Ekle 3 International Project, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2009 Krymsko-Polski Plener Mlodych Artystow, Crimea, Ukraine
2008 Krymsko-Polski Plener Mlodych Artystow, Crimea, Ukraine
2007 The Infinity In Russia International Open-Air Plan-Air of Contemporary Art organized by the Kaya West Youth Organization, Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga Oblast, Russia
2006 ArkheNytkaNovo International Youth Symposium of Textile Art, the Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine
2004 Ženy Ženám International Plain-Air of Arts, Humenné, Slovakia
2004 XIII International Residence for Artists, Zalai Nemzetközi Művésztelepek zárókiállításáról, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

Exhibitions:

2013 Fragments of the Organisms, The Parter Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2012 Textylizm, the Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
2012 Lviv-ARTtextile, the Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 The exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Malyi Luvr (“The Little Louvre”) Youth Creative Association’s foundation, Yosyp Bokshai Transcarpathian Oblast Museum of Art, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2012 The Ukrainian Textile Miniature, the Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2012 Bereznevi Koty (“The Tomcats”), the Uzhhorod Gallery, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2011 The Textylizm-8 all-Ukrainian biennale, the Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
2011 The House: Century of Changes, the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine
2010 The Textile Impressions Exhibition representing works of the 6th-year Textile Art Department students of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Myloserdya Mari Society, Lviv, Ukraine
2003 Genres, Transcarpathian National Architecture and Rural Life Museum, Uzhhorod, Ukraine