Babynin Valerii

Artist Bio (a brief biography and what my art is about)
I was born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine. I began studying fine art in childhood, in 1973, at the Odessa Art Studio in the Vorontsov Palace. In 1985, I graduated from the Odessa Art College, Department of Painting. By worldview and character, I am a humanities scholar—a philosopher, a professing Christian.

I grew up and was raised in the Odessa underground of the 1980s, interacting with artists from the so-called non-conformist movement, and experimented with various styles and movements. For a time, however, I painted in the styles of impressionism and realism, in the genre of urban landscapes; I enjoyed recognizing the enduring value of the givenness of existence. There is a certain boundary in contemplating the real world, beyond which more than physical reality is revealed. I strived to capture this on canvas, and when I succeeded, it was always a wonderful experience.
Since 2015, I began to study the history of modern art in more depth and explored the styles of contemporary art. I am most drawn to styles and movements such as abstraction, abstract expressionism, conceptual abstraction, and color field painting. My creative method in painting draws on the ideas of V. Kan...

Odessa M. B. Grekov State Art School

many different exhibitions