Oksana Grineva, now a Chicago based artist, was born in the highly industrialized city of Tomsk Siberia.At the age of three she began drawing and painting. As she was growing up, long cold winters provided the perfect opportunity for pursuing her love of art.Her parents moved the family to the Ukraine where Oksana attended several private schools. She is a graduated of the Samokisha Art College (1981-1985) and Kharkov Art Academy (1985-1990), Ukraine, where she received her M.B.A.Oksana lived in Turkey, Ankara for three years where she become highly recognized as an up and coming artist for her dramatically expressive paintings of the Black Sea and thoughtfully detailed portraits of the world leaders. In 1996 she moved to US. Oksana creates captivating light filled floral, landscape and figurative oil paintings that invite the viewer to become a part of her vision of joy, beauty and elegance. Her oil paintings are filled with rich color and energetic brushstroke adding her feelings of movement and life to her art. When combined with her sensitivity of form. Light, shadow and color, Oksanas paintings establish a captivating feeling of peacefulness .Her brush unveils true intimacy. She opens an individuals intense personal involvement with a thought or memory or with something beautiful.Oksana has exhibited and sold both locally, nationally and internationally. She has held exhibitions and shows Hot Spring, Houston, Chelsea NY. Long Island NY, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Barrington, Lake Zurich IL, Andrews Museum , NC. Her paintings hang in private collections, restaurants and corporate offices.www.oksanasart.com
