Selby Fleetwood Gallery

OLGA ANTONOVA

BORN: 1956, Volgograd, Russia

EDUCATION: MFA, Repin Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1980

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Selby Fleetwood Gallery, 2009
Selby Fleetwood Gallery, SFe, NM 2008
Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2003
Santa Fe Art Fair with Beth Urdang Gallery, 2008
Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 1999, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1990, 1988
Santa Monica Art Fair with Gallery Henoch, 2007
Galerie Marie-Claude Goinard, Paris, France, 2005
Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1994 to 2005
Chicago Art Fair with Gallery Henoch, Chicago, 2005
Haynes George Gallery, Charlotte, NC, 2005
Soprafina Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2003
Philadelphia Art Fair with Gallery Henoch, Philadelphia, 2003
NAO Project Gallery, Boston, MA, 2002
J. Cacciola Galleries, Bedminster, NJ, 2002
Remisengalerie, Museum Stadt Hanau, Hanau, Germany, 2001
Casa Vieja Gallery, Vieques, Puerto Rico, 2000
Kunsthalle, Jammeln, Germany, 1999
Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA, 1999
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 1998
Liliane André Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 1997
Frankfurt Art Fair with Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany, 1997, 1996, 1994
Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 1997, 1996
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 1996
City Hall Gallery, Wesseling, Germany, 1996
Gallery K.G. Schäfer, Giessen, Germany, 1996
Galerie Espace Suisse, Strasbourg, France, 1995
"Art Zurich" with Ulrich Gering Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 1995
Woodstock Guild and K&E Gallery, Woodstock, NY, 1995
"Art Miami" with Gallery Henoch, Miami, FL, 1995
Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany, 1995, 1994
"Art Cologne" with Ulrich Gering Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 1994, 1993
Fine Art Museum, South Bend, IN, 1994
Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994, 1993
University of Rhode Island, RI, 1994
Fine Arts Museum, South Bend, IN, 1994
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1993
Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France, 1993
Galerie Nicole Buck, Strasbourg, France, 1993 1992
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1992
Untitled Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1991
Hopkins Gallery, Wellfleet, MA,1991
Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1991
Gallery Naga, Boston, MA, 1991
Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1991
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 1990
Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1990
Anca Colbert Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 1989
David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1989
Downey Museum, Downey, CA, 1988
Akin Gallery, Boston, MA, 1988
Center place Galleries, Bangor, ME, 1988
David Williams Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1988
Gallery 52, Boston, MA, 1987, 1984
79th. Annual Exhibition, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon
Multicultural Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MA, 1987
Gallery Capricorn, Bethesda, MD, 1987
Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1987
Francesca Anderson Gallery, Boston, MA, 1986-1988

AWARDS:

Selected in the Tenth Juried Exhibition Competition, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA, 1999

Included in Print Collection of Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, 1992
Included in Slide Library of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1990

Artists Fellowship in Visual Art, California Art Council, Sacramento, 1989-90

Invited Speaker at Woman's Building, Los Angeles, 1989

Participant in the slide screening "Boston Collects", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987

PUBLICATIONS:

American Arts:Quarterly, "Singing Shapes: Still-Life Paintings in the Galleries" by Gail Leggio, Fall 2007
Univers des Arts, "du côté de chez Olga…" by C. Bailleul, May 2005
Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, "Allemands et Français pour une même exposition", October 7, 2004, October 3, 2004, "Sept plasticiens à l’usine", May 11, 1997, "Objets à Usage Artistique" by Julie Carpentier, January 5, 1996, "Portes ouvertes sur les ateliers d'artistes" by Corinne Ibram, June 28, 1992
Art News, review by Maria Schneider, May 2004
Boston Globe, "Cups Runneth Over" by Cate McQuaid, January 2, 2004, "A Summer Smorgasbord of Styles" by Nancy Stapen, July 11, 1991, "Subjects Captured in Network of Supple Lines" by Christine Temin, March 12,1987, "Critic's Tip" by Robert Taylor, 1984
Boston Herald, "the Edge Picks" by Joanne Silver, December 12, 2003
"Olga Antonova à l’Espace Sofitel" by S.H., April 24, 1997
Gissener Allgemeine, "Teekannen & Wasserkessel", April 25, 1996
Frankfurter Rundschau, "Kessel und Kannen" by D. Baer-Bogenschütz, September , 1995
L'Alsace, September, 1995
Provincetown Magazine, "Portrait of an artist: Olga Antonova" by John P. Schutz, August 4, 1994
The Villager, by Sascha Brodsky, December 1, 1993
Novoye Russkoye Slova, by Natalia Kozlova, December 1993.
Art Scene, Los Angeles, "Continuing & Up Coming," Editorial, July 1991, "Continuing & Up Coming,” Editorial, November 1989
Bay Windows, "Pillows & Paterns," March 12, 1987.
Newton Graphic, "Women's Art on View" by Meredith Fife Day, February 12, 1987
North End Tribune, 1986
Portsmouth Herald, "Two Diverse Styles of Still Life Adorn Walls of Gallery" by Susan Bailey, November 17, 1985
Obozrenie, "A Rose is a Rose is a Garlic" by Paul Stephen , 1985
Boston Phoenix, 1984
Prints
Series of Monotypes published by Martha Tepper Contemporary Fine
Arts and Fox Graphics, printed at Fox Graphics, Merrimac, MA.

COLLECTIONS:

Billy Wilder
Brown, Rudnik, Freed & Gesmer
Cooper & Lybrand
Fidelity Investments
George Henoch Shechtman
Marriott Hotels
Mass Bank for Savings
Putnam Investments
Vinson & Elkins
Eleonora Berlusconi

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY:

Olga Antonova was born in 1956 in Volgograd, Russia. She received her MFA in 1980 from the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. When Antonova came to the States in the early 1980s, her skill with a brush was already quite developed. She has continued to challenge herself and expand her abilities ever since.

Antonova’s paintings have been exhibited and collected from Massachusetts to California. She has had shows in Germany, France and Switzerland, and her work has been reviewed in several publications in both Europe and the US. In 1990, Antonova was given the honor of having images of her work included into the slide library of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian.

Perhaps it is her skill in portraiture which renders such strength to Antonova’s still life paintings. Beneath her brush, technically “inanimate” objects come alive with a vibrancy and depth of character that make a viewer want to know their history. Each curve of kettle or teacup rounds the bend, just out of sight, beckoning us nearer.
In many of her paintings, Antonova emloys the old masters’ technique of curved reflections. Light bounces off rounded metal and glazed porcelain capturing and distorting reflections of nearby surfaces and distant windows.

The interplay of matte and gloss surfaces, direct views and bowed reflections one finds on her canvases, make every painting a charming opportunity for new discoveries. In Antonova’s work, one finds the confidence and skill of a seriously trained career painter expertly tinged with a trace of amusement. Her work both invites and delights not just the eyes, but the mind and heart. This may be just one of the many reasons her paintings have found homes in so many corporate and private collections.