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Alexander StolinCrystal Ball (Silence)2020
2020
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Framed Dimensions: 24.75h x 24.75w in
Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic),
where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland’s
traditional art academies. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1992, met his future wife in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then married and settled in New Orleans. He maintains a home and
studio in Madisonville, Louisiana, and is a significant but understated figure in the New Orleans
art community. As art critic D. Eric Bookhardt suggested in 2002, “Stolin is more accomplished
than he is famous.” His art, often exhibited in thematic series that incorporate a variety of media,
ranges from intimate portraits to large-scale murals (one measuring twelve feet by seventy-two
feet). He has worked on a progressively larger scale, most recently designing and painting
projects for the Louisiana film industry. Stolin’s technically proficient and complexly layered art
reflects a unique fusion of the academic training he received in Kiev and his evolving response
to the very different culture, lifestyle, and subject matter he has discovered in New Orleans,
Madisonville, and the Gulf South.
Stolin was born on August 30, 1963. His art abilities were quickly recognized when in fourth
grade he qualified for admission to the State School of Art in Kiev, which he attended from 1975
to 1981. He decided to concentrate on book illustration and graphic arts, and after graduating he
was accepted into the Ivan Fedorov Polygraphic Institute in Moscow, where he studied from
1982 to 1988, graduating with a master of fine arts degree in 1988. He trained as a printmaker,
creating etchings and lithographs, and as a graphic designer, and worked as a designer in Kiev.
“I illustrated mysteries, science fiction, and different magazines,” he said. In 1988, after his
family visited relatives in San Francisco, California, the Stolins decided to immigrate to the
United States, a process that took four years. In 1992, Stolin and his parents immigrated to San
Francisco, and he worked for graphic design and print businesses in nearby Emeryville,
California. During a trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he was visiting cousins, Stolin met
Mary Kay Holmes. The couple soon married and moved to New Orleans, where Stolin
established himself as a working artist and began to exhibit in local galleries and group
exhibitions.
The art Stolin began to create in New Orleans demonstrated his technical skills, knowledge of
art history, and the evolving range of his subject matter, reflected from one series and exhibition
to the next, yet it was challenging for critics to classify his work. This was evident in the series
Stolin exhibited during his first decade in the city, beginning with Byzantium on the Bayou
(1993–1994), which combined historical Byzantine art references with New Orleans and Mardi
Gras subjects, such as Mardi Gras Madonna and Adoration of St. Gator. In his Midnight Dessert
series (1995–1997), he created works such as Tea in Manhattan and Rembrandt and Nathan, a
large painting that Bookhardt described as “a vision of Rembrandt and various Dutch masters
promenading down the sidewalk past Nathan’s Deli in New York.” Following that, he completed
The Water Series (1998–1999), featuring reflective and heavily worked surfaces in paintings
such as Reflections #2 and Study of Fish and Swimmers.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans
artists including Douglas Bourgeois, Jeffrey Cook, and Margaret Witherspoon and the architect
Jimmy Lamantia, as well as his Madisonville neighbors, including Bud Goldate, Hascal Agee,
and Willie Lee Marshall. These were important works, exhibited at the Ogden Museum of
Southern Art when it opened in 2003. “There are portraits—and there are portraits,” said
Bookhardt, referring to the series. “The best tell us something essential about the subject. The
rest are just pictures.” Observing that Stolin’s work “offers insights into the processes of
perception,” Bookhardt concluded that “his images distill something of the subject’s life essence
filtered through the eye and hand of an unusually skilled, sensitive, and increasingly
accomplished painter.”
A diversified range of works followed, including an exploration of his childhood memories of
Kiev, enhanced by family photographs and a series of letters from Kiev to relatives in America.
Stolin juxtaposed the historic and vernacular architecture of Kiev with New Orleans buildings of
the same period, as is evident in a painting such as Waiting II. Another series explored the
marshes and landscapes of the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Stolin also painted genre
scenes of small-town life in Madisonville, becoming, in his own way, a southern regional painter.
Works in this series included Bayou Lacombe, Breakfast at Badeaux’s, and Jr. High at
Madisonville, which featured a painted image of the school’s retired bus and metal from the
actual bus, fusing art, history, memory, and reality.
After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the north shore, Stolin’s painting and teaching
activities slowed, and he focused on recovery and rebuilding efforts, using his building skills to
aid friends, neighbors, and his fellow artists. As local rebuilding advanced, he was
commissioned by a north shore bank to paint murals in its new facilities. Then he received a
major mural commission, for the lobby of the 270 Peachtree building in Atlanta, Georgia, to
paint a large, three-panel composition (measuring twelve feet by seventy-two feet) depicting
Atlanta’s downtown and midtown skyline at sunrise. These mural projects reflected his earlier
interest and training in theater and stage design during his studies in Kiev, and evolved into
work for movies and television series filmed in Louisiana, including the HBO series Treme.
Stolin exhibited for years with the Marguerite Oestricher Gallery in New Orleans. After its closing
he became associated with the Taylor-Bercier Gallery in New Orleans and continues to exhibit
his art across Louisiana. His works are included in the collection of the Ogden Museum of
Southern Art in New Orleans as well as in numerous corporate and private collections
- Creator:Alexander Stolin (1963, Ukrainian)
- Creation Year:2020
- Dimensions:Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New Orleans, LA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU10529834772
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