LYUBOV MURAVYEVA
Lyubov Muravyeva is an internationally exhibited sculptor and painter from the former Soviet Union. Since receiving her MFA from the Stroganov Moscow School of Art and Design in 1967 and becoming a member of the USSR National Professional Artists’ Guild in 1983, she has worked on dozens of large-scale commissioned sculptures.Muravyeva has completed pieces for, among others, the Kiev Public Center; the Pereyaslav Khmelnitsky City Museum; the Children’s Music School, Kiev, the Public Cultural Center, Kiev; and most particularly, for the Vinogradar Living Area project in Kiev. Her work has been exhibited in shows including “Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea of Florence” in Florence, Italy, “Contemporary Ukrainian Art” in Smehyann, Sweden, “Ukrainian National Exhibition of Sculpture” in Kyiv, Ukraine, numerous solo exhibitions in St. Louis, Missouri, and other venues across Ukraine, Italy, Russia, Canada, and the United States.
Through exuberant images laden with metaphorical significance and fluid, monumental representations of the human form, Muravyeva brings attention to and seeks to cultivate compassion for the innermost feelings possessed by the human soul.
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Artist’s Statement
Selected Exhibitions
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
If I was ever facing the question, what is my preferred medium of expression, which material I’d like to work with most, I would probably have to answer that I prefer the one that fits my artistic goal best. Every composition demands its own material, just like every event has its own imprint – the artist has to figure it out. When a work of art is conceived and executed in a proper material, it expresses the innermost meaning of the environment. Humans deserve, require attention to their innermost meaning, to their souls. Human feeling of every kind, therefore, is the subject of my keenest interest. Or, rather, shapes, lines, colors and their interplay, reflecting the palette of human feelings, are the subject. In my view, they are also the main subject of art. After all, it’s the feeling that first lifted the human up and above the animal kingdom – ability to understand the feeling of the other, to be compassionate. It’s the propagation and cultivation of these feelings that preserves the human society.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012 Art Show “Red Dot Miami”, Wynwood Art District, December 5 – 9, Miami, Fl, USA
2012 International Biennale Artists Exhibition, LMNT Gallery, June 7- 26, Miami, Fl, USA
2011 International Biennale Artists Show, Gallery Gora, June 14th b July 2nd, Montreal, Canada
2010 The United States Artists Biennial, The Broadway Gallery NYC, September 16-30, New York, USA
2009 Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea of Florence, 7th edition, December 5-13, Florence, Italy
2006 Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
2006 Human Figure Exhibition, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
2006 The Body: Human Figure as Subject, Vallejo Community Arts Foundation,
Vallejo, CA
2004 New Works in Sculpture, Small group show, 3rd Floor Gallery on Washington street, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2003 Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, December 6-14, Florence, Italy.
2001-2002 New Work by Luba Muravyeva, Millstone Fine Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (Solo Exhibition)
2000 Lyubov Muravyeva: Wood, Ceramic and Bronze Sculpture, Millstone Fine Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (Solo Exhibition)
1997 Connections and Bridges. Ukraine and Ukraine Connected American Artists, Killian Gallery, Sharon, New Hampshire, USA
1997 USA Realist Approach, Small group exhibition, Agora Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
1996 Dedication, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (Solo Exhibition)
1995 From A Distance, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (Solo Exhibition)
1990 Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Smyehamn, Sweden
1990 II Ukrainian National Exhibition of Sculpture, Kiev, Ukraine
1990 Ceramics in architectural environment in Kiev, Mikhailovskaya Trapesnaya, Kiev, Ukraine
1983 Artists to people, USSR National Art Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
1983 Sport in USSR, National Art Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
1981 USSR National Art Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
1976 Ukrainian National Exhibition of Art, Kiev, Ukraine
1975 Ukrainian National Exhibition of Decorative Art, Kiev, Ukraine
1973 Sport at the Art of the Young, USSR National Exhibition, Moscow
1969 Annual Spring Exhibition of sculpture, Kiev, Ukraine
1967 USSR National Exhibition of Young Artists, Moscow, Russia
1967 Annual Spring Exhibition of Moscow Artists, Moscow, Russia
1967 Russian National Exhibition of Young Artists, Moscow, Russia
1967 7th Exhibition of Young Moscow Artists, Moscow, Russia
1957 Ukrainian National Art Exhibition, Kiev, Ukraine
PUBLIC WORKS
1999 "Soul of the Stone", Granite, 155 x 250 x 60 cm, Andres Institute of Art, Brookline, NH (andresinstitute.org)
1993 "Apple Trees in Blossom", bronze, 7'H, Lobby of the Public Cultural Center, Kiev, Ukraine.
1990 "Kupala's Night", ceramic, enamel, 19'H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
1988 "Song", ceramic, enamel, 8'H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
1988 "Hey, the Swans are Flying", ceramic, enamel, 19'H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
1986 "Tatyana Tass", bronze, 7'H, Kuntsevo Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.
1986 "Save the World from Nuclear Winter", ceramics with enamel, 18'H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
1984 "Earth Melody", ceramics, enamel, 15'H, outside Children Music School, Kiev, Ukraine.
1983 "Plastic Compositions", ceramic, enamel, 10 units from 5'H x 12'W x 1'D to 2'H x 2'W x 1'D, Halls of the " Gold Field" Sanatorium, Moldavia.
1982 "Spring", ceramic with enamel, 18'H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
1980 "Summer Day", ceramic, enamel 17'H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
1978 "Together through the Flame" or "Human and Nature," copper sheets and fired enamel, 21'H, outside Public Center, Kiev, Ukraine.
1976 "Ocean", ceramic, enamel, 15'H, outside kindergarten #130, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
1974 "Fairy Tale", ceramic, enamel, 5'H outside Kindergarten #129 ,Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine. 1974 "Pinocchio," ceramic, enamel, composition on the wall, kindergarten #129, Kiev, Ukraine.
1974 "Thumbelina", ceramics, enamel composition on the wall, kindergarten #129, Kiev, Ukraine.
1972 "Fat Frumos," ceramic, enamel, composition on the wall, relief, Moldavia.
1972 "Lyana Rosolyana", ceramics, enamel, 8'H, outside Cultural Center, Raskoitsy, Moldavia.
1970 "Birds", ceramics, enamel, 5'H, outside Public Center, Kiev, Ukraine.
1966 "Youth", wood, 4'H, city museum, Pereyaslav Chmelnitski, Ukraine.
AWARDS
2005 Diploma of Excellence (Honorable Award), Online Global Art Competition Art Now -2005 "Mirage of a Gone City", stoneware, enamels, glazes
1984 First Prize at the concourse "The Best Art Work for Man Made Environment in USSR, 1984" : "Spring", ceramic, enamel, 18'H, 12'W, 5'D, outside Public Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1982.
1979 “The Best Artwork for Aesthetic Environment in Kyiv, 1979”:
"Ocean" - ceramics, enamel, 15'H, composition with pool, outside kindergarten #130, Living Area, Kyiv, Ukraine 1976.
1979 First Prize at the concourse "The Best Artwork for Aesthetic Environment in Kyiv, 1979":
"Fairy Tale" - ceramic, enamel, 5'H, 1974
1979 The Best Artwork for Environment in Kyiv :
"Pinocchio" - ceramic, enamel, composition on the wall, 1974.
1979 “The Best Artwork for Aesthetic Environment in Kyiv”:
"Thumbelina" - ceramic, enamel, composition on the wall, 1974.
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Best Of Artists Presents: Worldwide Sculpture Volume II, Best of Artists & Kennedy Publishing, VA, USA, pp100-101.
2012 American Art Collector, Juried Competition of New Work, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, page193
2010 NY ARTS Magazine Volume 15, Fall 2010, Page 125, Lyubov Muravyeva: “In the realm of public artâ€.
2010 American Art Collector, Juried Competition of New Works, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, Page 224
2010 Lyubov Muravyeva: Eroine Contemporanee / Contemporary Heroins, Biennale Artists Series Florence, Italy, 2010.
2009 Catalogue of Biennale Internazionale Dell`Arte Contemporanea of Florence, 7th edition, December 5-13, Florence, Italy, page 431.
2007 American Art Collector, Volume 3, Book2 ¿ CENTRAL STATES, page107
2003 Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, citta di Firenze, Quarta Edizione 2003, Page 613
1997 Hegyes, Zoltan. "Four Shows At Agora Gallery Feature an International Roster", Artspeak, New York, June/July 1997.
1996 Duffy, Robert W. "Ukrainian Perspective", St. Louis, Post-Dispatch, Oct. 1996.
1995 Robert W. Duffy, European Flavor, Diversity Produces A Compelling Program, Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Oct. 1995.
1987 Pavel Poznak, "View in the Future", book "Kyiv: View through centuries", Kyiv, 1987.
1987 Book Architecture of the Soviet Ukraine, Moscow, 1987.
1986 M. Yablonskaya, "On monumental sculpture art: Theory and experience," Soviet Sculpture, v10, Moscow, 1986.
1985 Space for relaxation - Round table of the magazine, Decorative Art of the USSR, Moscow, v9, 1985.
1984 Rabushkin, "Attempt to analyze: Creative research and tendency 1970-1980", Architecture of the USSR, v5, 198 4.
1982 Book Architecture USSR, Moscow, v6, 1982.
1981 "With caring about human", Film magazine, Center science Film, Moscow, v12, 1981.
1980 N. Andrushtenko, "Secret of synthesis: Architecture, problems,
perspectives," newspaper Culture and life, Kie v, 08/13/80.
1980 E.A.Bilskiy, Booklet "Art plastics at children's playgrounds," Kyiv,1980.
1979 M.Kelesso, "Human and Nature", magazine Building and Architecture, v9, 1979, Kyiv.
1979 N.Andrushtenco, "Artist and environment", Decorative Art of the USSR v10, 1979, Moscow.
1978 Stella Basasyantc, "Ukraine monumental artists: from number to quality", magazine Decorative Art of the USSR, v5, 1978, Moscow.
1978 "Art in kindergartens of Vinogradar", Building and Architecture v5, Kyiv.
1970 Uriy Varvaretskiy, "About exhibition of sculpture in Kyiv", newspaper
Culture and Life v69, September 1970.
EDUCATION
Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, 1961-1967.
Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, focus in monumental decorative art.
Accepted into the USSR National Professional Artists' Guild in 1983.