Humans perpetually seek light, but they need darkness to understand this. In the space between a straight line and a shadow lies the truth of our existence.
The world we live in is fast-paced and cumbersome with detail. Its overwhelming rhythm is the wave that drowns our society in endless complexity of norms and peer pressure. Endless array of curves and subtle societal nuances manifest entanglement. Oksana’s art deconstructs this chaos into simplified comfort of ordered shapes. Complexity of detail stops existing, and only the pure truth of geometric world is unveiled. It is the infinite cycle of order and chaos, and geometry is the universal language to describe it.
Acrylic paint is a modern medium. It moves at the same fast pace as our society. This paint is versatile and can be applied in thin viscous pours or with chaotic chunky textures. It dries quickly without external help, yet it can be slowed down intentionally. Isn’t it just like a modern human in a fast-paced city, desperate to slow down and find order and peace? Acrylic paint is Oksana’s medium of choice because it is a metaphor for the present.
Welcome to the simplified world without distractions. With her art, Oksana strives to distill complexity of life into singular, balanced form. The viewer has an option to accept this simplicity or to put the chaos back by demystifying what could have been. For chaos and calmness exist within one another, it’s an infinite cycle.
Biography
Oksana Ossipov has been an artist all of her life. She was born and raised in Ukraine, and started her art career by drawing on all available surfaces, including walls. At the age of six, she enrolled in an art school for young talents. There she got acquainted with different art media such as watercolors, pastels, graphite, and clay. She was the youngest student at the school, but this did not stop her from pursuing her passion.
When Oksana was in her teens, her family moved to USA. It was a big change for her, both socially and environmentally. Travel broadens one’s mind, but moving to another side of the globe actually turns it upside down. This was a completely different world from what she knew. It granted new opportunities to learn the language, culture, and to explore an unfamiliar way of life. This created a major impact on how Oksana perceived different cultures and shaped her into an accepting and understanding person that she is today. Her travel adventures did not stop there; she regularly visits various countries in search of inspiration.
After spending several years in North Dakota, Oksana moved to Bay Area, California and attended San Jose State University. While she was still in the same country, it felt like a different world yet again. The colors of the sky were like nowhere else, and the landscapes of Bay Area immediately stole her heart. After graduating with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Digital Media Art, Oksana moved to Texas. There she studied figure drawing at the Society of Figurative Arts. Human figure is the pinnacle of nature’s creation. Once its structure is grasped, anything is possible to depict. Another new skies, changing landscapes, and hot summers pushed Oksana from representational art towards conceptual abstraction. While the landscapes changed, their basic geometry stayed the same. This reminded Oksana of the way she saw the world when she was a child. She had very poor eyesight and saw the world as fuzzy geometric blocks. There were no curves or details, only a simple distilled world of relationships between shapes.
Today, Ossipov works from her North Texas studio. There she creates high-end original geometric abstract paintings. She’s drawing inspiration from her memories and the surrounding world. Oksana travels often to Australia, Japan, and Europe to ensure her vision of the world is never still. She continues to discover unusual plants and get inspired by architecture, cultural traditions, and most of all people. Her work is held in private collections throughout the world.