Oksana Ossipov

Oksana works mainly with acrylic paint to create her traditional art. Her size of choice varies from vast canvases to miniature artworks. In her art, Oksana tries to depict the scenes full of air and to show its movement. For example, while looking at a landscape, one usually focuses on the tangible objects. As a result, the sheer mass of air, dust, and specs is often ignored. Imagine hot air above the asphalt paved road, its mystic movement, the mirage. This is what Oksana strives to include in her paintings.

Oksana favors play of contrasts by creating textured and smooth parts of a single painting. It is the never ending cycle of calm and chaos, as without one we cannot truly appreciate the other. It is a reminder to cherish both, the good and the bad. Through her art, Oksana attempts to show usually unseen and under-appreciated parts of this world. The little things that people tend to lose while leading their busy lives. She tries to tell the viewers to stop and truly look. Oksana draws her inspiration from nature and different cultures while traveling. Butterflies and moths are another inspiration for her; mainly because they are amazing and beautiful creatures, but also incredibly frightening to Oksana. This mix of fascina...

Oksana has been an artist all of her life. She was born and raised in Ukraine, and started her art career by drawing on all available surfaces, including walls. At the age of six she enrolled in art school for young talents. There she got acquainted with different art media such as watercolors, pastels, graphite, and clay. She was the youngest student at the school, but this did not stop her from pursuing her passion.

Throughout her general education career, Oksana enrolled in a number of extracurricular activities and clubs. Some of those included stitching, sewing, paper craft, sculpture, gardening, sports, digital art, and web design. In college Oksana was introduced to acrylic paint, which became one of her favorite media. Programming and electronics classes along with detailed history of art and photography allowed her to combine traditional and contemporary technologies to create mixed media art. One of the examples would be combination of impressionism and dada, another -- contemporary precision of laser cut and robotics to create motion sculptures. After moving to Texas, she started to focus on fine art skills and figurative art in particular. Oksana studied for 5 years under Michael Mentler at the Society of Figurative Ar...