Rodion Gilmitdinov

Untold Desert, Abstract Painting

2024

Artist Comments
Bold colors, symbolic imagery, and expressive lines create a layered visual narrative. Artist Rodion Gilmitdinov used acrylic paint, oil sticks, and charcoal to build patterns, calligraphic marks, and desert motifs. The composition blends cultural references with abstraction, suggesting memory, movement, and the rhythm of traditional craftsmanship

About the Artist
Artist Rodion Gilmitdinov creates paintings that capture cities through broken lines, dynamic colors, and spontaneous brushwork. His compositions emerge as visceral reactions to his environment rather than strict representations. "My art is like visual diaries; it is spontaneous, raw, often nearly uncontrollable," Rodion tells me. He grew up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where rhythm and silence shaped him. After moving to New York, the city’s chaos fueled his work. Without formal mentors, Rodion honed his skills through observation and persistence. He works in his studios in Brooklyn and Miami, where charcoal dust covers the floor and music fills the air. When not making art, he walks through the city, observes people, and spends time with his family and dog.

Words that describe this painting: pattern, colorful, graffiti, camel, abstract, contemporary, mixed media artwork, blue

Untold Desert
Rodion Gilmitdinov
Oil paint, acrylic paint, oil sticks, and pastel on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2024
64 in. h x 60 in. w x 1.5 in. d
63 lbs. 10 oz.