Михайлова
Mikhailova Alena, artist, designer
I use multi-layered technics with simple shapes and most perceptible images to create viewer-friendly space on paper, where shapes and gaps equally matter. Keynote of my art is a human being or it’s image, inner interaction with universe,
God and silence.
Birthplace: Magadan, 1987.
Current residence: Ryazan.
Education: Ryazan Art college named after G. K. Wagner (summa cum laude) and Moscow State Institute University of Culture majoring in advertising design (summa cum laude)
Worked in Ryazan Art college named after G. K. Wagner, teaching pictorial art, composition (design) and typography.
Experience: More than 15 years working on brand books, logos, advertisement. Designed catalogues, posters and portfolios for Ryazan and Moscow artists.
Working with «AK interior design studio» (Moscow) where I fulfil my potential as painting and drawing artist. (My work «construct» (2021, canvas, acrylic paint, 160х70 cm) appeared on the portal of international magazine ELLE Decoration in April 2022.)
I engage in easel, printing and digital graphic works and book illustrations. I am employed in book industry and had worked for such publishers as “EKSMO”, “Пять четвертей” etc. This turned my attention to illustrations and graphic.
My works are now in private collections in Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, Autralia, Serbia and Kazakhstan.
Education
2004 – 2009
Ryazan Art college
2010 – 2015
Moscow State University of Culture and Arts
Exhibitions
International
2023
International Print Biennale, Yerevan
2022
“We change prints. Space" . International Print exchange of printed graphics
Moscow city. Union of Graphic Artists "OfortPro" December-January 2022
International Biennale of Printed Graphics "Kubachi Tower".
R. Dagestan. S. Kubachi. July 2022
“We change prints. Heritage". International Print exchange of printed graphics
Moscow city. Union of Graphic Artists "OfortPro". November 2022
Group
2023
"Flowers, flowers, flowers!" Ryazan, Ryazan Regional Universal Scientific Library. March.
2022
"Book Illustration Artists".
Ryazan. Ryazan State Regional Art Museum. I.P. Pity. House-Museum of I.P. Pity. January - February 2022
Exhibition "Together".
Moscow city. All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts. May 2022
Exhibition of printed graphics.
Vladivostok GUK "Vladivostok House of Officers of the Pacific Fleet." October 2022
Regional exhibition "Autumn-2022".
Ryazan. Exhibition Hall RGOKhM them. I.P. Pozhalostina.
Exhibition "Fragments of a love speech"
Ryazan, cultural space "FABRIKA". November 2022