Galina Krasskova
About
A passionate supporter of the arts, Ms. Krasskova enjoys going to the opera, theater, and ballet. Her affection for the arts began early as she discovered dance, which she pursued professionally becoming a ballet dancer: first with a regional company in Maryland, then in New York City. After suffering career ending injuries, she would transition from the performing arts and find new forms of expression in the visual arts.
For a few years Ms. Krasskova co-owned an art gallery, RiverWinds, in the Hudson River Valley of New York, before she sold her interest to focus on her doctoral degree. Over a course of numerous years she has studied a multitude of art mediums: glassblowing, watercolor, acrylic, photography and more!
She is now an avid acrylic painter and watercolorist and has even enjoyed placement in international artist-in-residencies programs in New York, New Mexico, and Poland. Her work has been exhibited from New York to Paris.
Currently represented by RiverWinds Gallery.
January 2016-2017, represented by Montserrat Gallery, New York, NY. Curator: Basha Maryanska.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’
then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
First and foremost, my art is my statement. Art for me is about transcending boundaries, courting the sacred, and bringing Beauty to life, letting that force spin itself into existence through the fire of my creativity, the work of my hands, and the agitation in my spirit. It is a sacred thing, a living act of evocation, invocation, and prayer. When I sit down to draw, or stand at my easel to paint, I’m taking part in an expression of reverence that goes back to the Neolithic. I’m joining hands and mind, will and creativity with those first painters who pressed their palms into red ochre and anointed the walls of initiatory caves. Art for me is a homage to the ancestors, a celebration of the best of the human experience. Like the shaman whose head has been broken open by the fire of Gods, my job as an artist is to serve the flow of that creativity into and upon my world. Art transforms. It preserves us from spiritual and emotional desiccation and to be an artist is, in some way, to be a servant of that which is sacred.
It’s always been there in me, that yearning to step into the flow of that sacred power, to be of service. The first quarter of my life was spent chasing its shadow through the brutal discipline of ballet. I think perhaps that’s why it is the figure that attracts me the most as a painter. For me, the body has always been first and foremost a conduit for that vital current, that force of creative expression. When I paint a woman dancing, or a nude, or a seated figure, I can feel in my own body the taut stress and pull of the musculature, the arc of bone, the resonance of the movement itself. It connects me more viscerally with my art. It is a reminder that I am stepping into a long line of men and women who, via music, painting, photography, sculpture, dance, and a thousand other means of expression, worked magic upon their world. I am taking my part in a lineage.
In the end, it is the frenzy of a Dionysian bacchante that I seek in my painting: let there be color and fire and the breaking down of all walls, anxieties, and fears that keeps us from ourselves, and joy, and pain, and longing. My art is eating fire, an ongoing bacchanalia and for that, I am grateful.
EDUCATION
ABD in Theology, (PhD expected 2025), Fordham University
MA in Medieval Studies, Fordham University, 2019
MA in Religious Studies, New York University, NY 2009
BA in Cultural Studies, Empire State College, New York, NY 2007. Concentration: Religious Studies
ARTISTIC EDUCATION
June 2013: painting with water-based oils, Tara Zalewsky, Touchstone Art Center, Farmington, PA, USA.
September 2013 to September 2015: studied under Basha Maryanska, Beacon, NY USA.
June 2013 to September 2015: studied photography and Iphonography under Mary Ann Glass.
June 2014: iphonography, Dan Burkholder, Woodstock Arts Center, Woodstock, NY, USA.
September 2015 to 2019: studied watercolor under Betsy Jacaruso, Rhinebeck, NY.
May 2017 to 2019: studied studio techniques/acrylics under Keith Donaldson, Rhinebeck, NY.
June 2021: Painting with Nuanced Color: Composing a Gorgeous Palette from a Few, Simple Tubes, three-day studio class with Christie Scheele, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY.
AWARDS
June 2014: Honorable Mention Award, Open Call, Professional Women Photographers, NY, NY.
Artist in Residencies
May 4, 2015 – May 18, 2015 International Artists’ Residency in Taos, NM, USA. Director: Basha Maryanska
July 7 – July 18, 2015 International Artists’ Residency in Myslenice, Poland. Director: A. Wisniowska – Funek
October 12-27, 2015 and 2016 International Artists’ Residency in Beacon, NY, USA. Director: Basha Maryanska
December 27-29, 2024 Artist Residency at the Brown-Pink Studio in Kingston, New York.
EXHIBITIONS
December 13, 2025, Winter Gems at The Hallway @40 Cannon, Poughkeepsie, NY.
July 2025, RiverWinds Gallery at Pawling, Live4Art Gallery, Pawling, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
March 2025, RiverWinds Gallery at Pawling, Live4Art Gallery, Pawling, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
November – December 2024, Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
October 2024, RiverWinds Gallery at Pawling, Live4Art Gallery, Pawling, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
May – June 2024, Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
April – June 2024, RiverWinds, The Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY.
March 2024, WomensWork.ART, The Crafted Kup, Poughkeepsie, NY.
November 2023, Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass & Paola Bari.
October 2023, RiverWinds Gallery at Pawling, Live4Art Gallery, Pawling, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
May 2023, Exhibit, The Crafted Cup, Poughkeepsie, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
April 2023, RiverWinds Gallery at Pawling, Live4Art Gallery, Pawling, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
March 2023, RiverWinds Art Show, Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY. Curator: Paola Bari.
October 2022, RiverWinds Gallery at Pawling, Live4Art Gallery, Pawling, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
August 2022, RiverWinds Gallery Presents: A Pawling Art Show, Live4Art Gallery, Pawling, NY. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
June 2019-2022, Postcards from the Hudson Valley, Banalia, Victoria, Australia, Curator: Mary Ann Glass/Irina Korotkow.
Spring Show, Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Rhinebeck, NY, May 2017. Curator: Betsy Jacaruso.
Strange Beauties, RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, NY, January 5-February 3, 2016. Curator: Mary Ann Glass.
The Blue Show, Front Street Gallery, Patterson, NY, October 18 – November 27, 2015. Curators: Jeanette Rodriguez and Jeremy Wolff.
Vernissage, Carrosel du Louvre, Paris, France, October 24-25, 2015, Curators: Edson Cardoso, Alcinda Saphira, Louis Ventura, Basha Maryanska.
Vernissage, Artitude Galerie, Paris, France, October 17-22, 2015.
Curators: Edson Cardoso, Alcinda Saphira, Louis Ventura, Basha Maryanska.
Visions, Saphira Studios, New York, NY, June 25-July 7, 2015. Curated by Basha Maryanska
Residency Show, Kachina Lodge Gallery, Taos, NM, May 4-18, 2015. Curated by Basha Maryanska.
The Red Show, Front Street Gallery, Patterson, NY February 15 – March 28, 2015. Curated by Jeanette Rodriguez and Jeremy Wolf.
Women Artists of Beacon, Howland Center, Beacon, NY March 7 – 31, 2015. Curated by Florence Northcutt.
“Dreams” show at New Century Artists, NY, NY, January 3-15, 2015. Curated by Basha Maryanska.
“Jumbled Expressions,” international show at Marina Gallery in Cold Spring, NY. September 1-30, 2014. Curated by Basha Maryanska.
“From the Heart,” Spire Studio, Beacon, NY, April 5-28, 2014. Curated by Basha Maryanska.
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