Vladimir Davidenko

For me as a painter, decorator and illustrator, art is the way and the methods to reflect, influence and transform the environment in order to make it more attractive and livable. The purpose of my art is to inspire viewers, generate and regenerate their spiritual energies with a dose of amazement and enchantment.
The main subject of my creative activities is the urban environment as an embodiment of artificiality built on natural needs; as nature framed by culture; as a realm of diversity and variety; as a sanctuary to strangers; as an object of collective art.
The bigger and more cosmopolitan the city, the more intricate a grotesque it represents. Following the elusive idiosyncrasy of New York City I combine a variety of techniques and materials and different art forms. I use metallic mediums and decorative stuccoes. I incorporate frames into pictures, therefore many of my art pieces consist of exterior and interior parts, both sometimes of equal importance. Being a figurative artist, I love to create artificial mise-en-scenes and grotesque combinations using portraits of the real people I meet in the city. Inclusion of these people into my art makes them very special to me, this is why their portraits tend to resemble icons ...

Studied Industrial Design at Mykhailo Boychuk Kyiv National Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design (former Kiev College of Industrial Arts), Ukriane

Stand with Ukraine / group / The Museum of Russian Art at Gateway Art Center, New York, 2015
The Looted Future (25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster) / solo / Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York, 2011
3 Points Define a Surface / group / Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, 2011
Russian Art Festival / group / Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, 2000
All You Can Eat / group / OMYA Gallery, New York, 1994
Point of View / group / Pleiades Gallery, New York, 1992