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Oksana Tanasiv Oksana Tanasiv(Oksi) - is Ukrainian-American contemporary artist. She was born on November 3rd, 1976 in Ternopil, Ukraine). In 2004 she immigrated to the USA and currently lives and creates in Connecticut and New Y ork areas. She experiments in realistic, surrealistic, neo-folk and pop-art creating art as collections by subject, style, and technique. Oksana’s ability to use variety of mediums and techniques allows her to create paintings, compositions, crystal mosaics, 3- dimensional installations. Oksana’s academic knowledge in psychology, history and sociology enabled artist to experiment with an object in art, intellectual message, and discover new conceptions in art. Oksana's art has been shown at multiple exhibitions, art fairs, group and solo shows in United States. Since 2012 she collaborates with New York Fashion Week and with Style Fashion Week, showing her Fashion Art series every season at Interprid Museum, Waldorf Astoria, Times Square, New Yorker Hotel, Wall Street and other venues of Fashion Week. Oksana Tanasiv’s cultural heritage includes more than 180 art works, installations, and illustrations. For over last decade artist created 15 art collections and her works can be found in private collections in Australia, Europe, Asia, and America. Life Story Collections _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Couture and Fashion Art Oksana is known for her Couture art where she "brakes the borders" between art and fashion by using her signature technique of fabric attached to canvas. Oksana's ability to paint and saw enabled artist to create her exclusive technique of fabric and tule sewn to the canvas, decorated by Swarovski® crystals mosaic. The two-dimensional art installed on the panel steps create 3-dimetional compositions delivering a message of fashion transformed into fine art. Couture Art is part of her Fashion Art series that also include Odeur de Chanel collection, Fashion Illustration collection Dollar Art Dollar Art is series of surrealistic compositions, oil paintings with dollar bills collage on canvas. It's an artist’s vision of social, political, economical world and the relation between people and money. Dollar Art conception is a surreal world where the surrounding objects such as steps, chairs, umbrellas, doors, business suits, glasses, trees are created of dollar bills collage with purpose to deliver a message about influence of banknotes on person’s behavior; to show an interconnection between corruption and famine, ignorance and war, hardworking and achievement, abuse and protection, gender inequality, political manipulations, and economical issues. Reincarnation "Reincarnation" is series of fine art created in 2015-2016. It's an artist’s vision of famous personalities who are “reincarnated” by artist’s techniques of collage, oil and silver/goldelaf on canvas. Code"U" Code "U" is a collection of abstract compositions created in neo-folk style delivering a very important message - historical cultural code. It is done with using acrylic, oil, and application of gold&silver leaf on board. Symbols, signs, systems and unique patterns used in fashion embroidery since a few thousands years ago by ancestors of Eastern Europeans. According to ethnography’ research the embroidery symbols hold special vibrations, strength, and energy. Author turns the antique symbols 2017 into abstract modern combinations and “Codes” by using new media and colors. Besides delivery of energy links, artist creates unique ethnic, neo-folk abstract geometrical art that connects history and culture in lengths of few millenniums. Selected Art Exhibitions 2017 Fashion Week “Style”, Intrepid Museum, NYC, USA 2017 Lloyds International Gallery, Solo Show "Art on Date with Fashion", New York City, USA 2017 Caelum Gallery, New York City, USA 2016-2017 C.Parker Gallery, Greenwich, CT, USA 2015 Stamford Palace Theate,r Solo Art Exhibition "Art Beyond Style", Stamford, CT, USA 2014 The Mayor's Gallery, Government Center, Solo Art Exhibition "Voice of Ukraine", Stamford, USA OKSI (Oksana Tanasiv) Artist Oksana Tanasiv Born November 3, 1976. Ternopil, Ukraine Nationality Ukrainian- American[1] Known for Fine Art, installation Notable work Fashion Art (2007-2014) Couture Art Installations (2013-2015) Dollar At Series (2011-2017) Code "U" (2016-2018) Website oksanatanasiv.com Triumph Dress. Art&Fashion without Borders. Solo- Art Show "Art on Date with Fashion", Lloyds International Gallery, Manhattan, NYC. June2, ____ 2014 International Art Show ArtExpo, New York City, USA 2013 Couture Fashion Week, Times Square Manhattan, NYC, USA 2013 Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY 2013 International Art Show ArtExpo, New York City, USA 2012 International Art Show ArtExpo, New York City, USA Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Oksana_aTnasiv/sandbox&oldid=819408674" This page was last edited on 9 January 2018, at 05:53. 2017 Solo Art Exhibition with a Special Guest Ambassador of Ukraine to United Nations M.r Yuriy Sergeev. Manhattan, NYC