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IRENE SHERI VISHNEVSKAYA
Irene Sheri came to the world a painter. More so, Irene came to the world gifted
with inherent love for the beauty around her. Starting in early childhood, she
began embracing her need to create, to capture, to express what she saw. Painting
and drawing quickly became her love letters to the world, and by nine years her
lifelong passion was created. Irene’s professional journey began in an art school for
small children, and just six years later, as a young adult student in Grekov Odessa
Art School, Irene already emerged as a highly talented artist, participating in local
exhibitions and winning her first awards, including a “Young Artist of the Year”.
After earning a degree from Serov’s Saint Petersburg Art School, Irene went on
to hone her craft at the highest level,
in the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint
Petersburg., whose halls have been
fostering and protecting the most sacred
elements of fine art for almost 300 years.
The true professional acclaim came to
Irene in the form of the State Prize in
Art and acceptance to the Artists Trade
Union of Russia. Her works were now
being displayed throughout Russia and
many European and online galleries; it
is the increased international exposure
what ultimately ushered in the next
part of her life. In late 2001, her works
attracted the attention of a major Disney
affiliated creative artist management
agency. Irene was somewhat resistant
to the suitors’ initial courtship, who,
nevertheless, continued being persistent
in their promises to bring her to the
United States, to launch American exhibits
of her paintings, to expose new public to
her art, and to connect her with American
artists. By March 2002, the agency
succeeded. Irene visited Los Angeles
and becoming a licensed Disney Fine Art
artist marked her new professional peak. Over the following years, Irene travelled
between the US and Russia multiple times, gradually building her presence, gaining
more recognition, and slowly transitioning into novel social, artistic, and business
cultures. She moved permanently to the United States in 2010. Continuing to
reflect and to fall in love with the world around her over and over, Irene Sheri
transformed and changed throughout her life as an artist. Reinventing and blending
herself with the cues and details that developed around her, Irene filtered time
and assimilated new elements in a childlike manner. Keeping her classical Russian
art school origins and embracing new modern western aspects, her paintings an
impressionists-like core breath the life of everyday trifles, embodying the joy of
small, everyday things. Tender melancholy, momentary looks, soft smiles and all
subtle yet well-defined and confident reflections of deep inner harmony and peace
in her works, brought together concisely and pointedly. Irene firmly commands
various genres, from still-life to landscapes and portraits. Reminiscent of Renoir,
Degas and Klimt, her portraits convincingly echo the unaffectedness of a child and
mature female love in the same captured moments. Most often her characters
speak through the understated - and ever so hard to capture wholly - elements
in eyes and hands, making us realise that a true portrait must not be objective
but rather only genuinely exists in a milky, in-between realm of a confession and
an existential self-insistence. Irene’s talent continued to endure and break new
ground with every new period of her artistic life. Over the years, her art has been
featured in galleries all over the world. The most recent works, featured in this
book, pay tribute to the best traditions of Romantic Realism, blended with moods
of Impressionism, and decorated by the best ornaments of Modernism.
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