Igor Shulman

Listening to Shakespeare ..., Painting, Oil on Canvas

2018

I wanted to produce a piece of work to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the British Punk Movement ( October 1976 with the release of the single 'New Rose' by The Dammed). I l...

Portrait of the modfather Paul Weller. I love faces that are lined, these lines create wonderful shapes, and Weller has that very sort of face. I found the background pattern on ...

Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas. The painting I started in 2019 but recently reworked it. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authe...

The “Dark Night II” is a portrayal of the injustices that nature faces in an obscure perspective. her focus on a single powerful wave emphasizes the force of nature while the str...

Serenity, warmth, and harmony are at the heart of Dreamer, a captivating oil on canvas painting that invites reflection and a sense of peace. The work portrays a figure with closed e...

Oil paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right This work is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris. The...

This painting is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris. The liquid mountain is populated by living b...

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’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans artists including Douglas Bourgeois...