Uslada Art

Uslada (known as Foxi Von Riga until 2019) brings the richness of her ancestral Slavic origins and the depth of her intuitive gifts to create her exuberant, phantasmagorical paintings. Born to an ethnically Russian-Ukrainian-Polish family in Latvia, Uslada spent her student years in the USA and Spain. She now lives in Belgium where she creates her art in a picturesque town near Brussels.

Uslada’s artistic style is a truly unique blend of color, texture and intricate shapes which portray the magnificence of the Universe, and the beauty of all of us in it. Her other artistic medium is poems. Belgian philosopher and art writer Marcel Paquet, who knew and wrote about Magritte, Botero, Calder and Mirò, dedicated one of his last essay’s to Uslada’s art.

Uslada’s art is spiritual alchemy. It’s created in the state of meditative flow, when the artist is fully connected to her Muse, tapping into the powerful energies of the Universe and channeling them into her art. The key themes of Uslada’s work are sovereignty, self-empowerment and embracing life in all its splendor.

Replete with flamboyant, Earth-inspired symbolism, Uslada’s art is full of motifs drawn from nature - fish, flowers, oceans, and birds - which allude to our human n...

University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Tufts University, Boston, USA
Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain

2020

Exhibition at Balthasar Brussels (Belgium)

2017

Exhibition at the Ocean Film Festival, Brussels (Belgium)

Solo exbibition at Delen Private Bank (main sponsor of the international BRAFA art fair), Brussels (Belgium)

2015

Joint exhibition with and under the patronage of artist and curator Ola-Dele Kuku, Baki gallery, Brussels (Belgium)

2014

Solo exhibition "Expansion of Infinity", Jos Joos gallery, Brussels (Belgium)

2013

Exhibition at Gallery 45, Brussels (Belgium)

Solo exhibition at Espace Lorraine gallery, Brussels (Belgium)

2013 Uslada's first exhibition at The Egg cultural center, Brussels (Belgium)