Oksana Cherkas

Oksana Cherkas is one of the bright artists of the city. She began paint in oils professionally in 1993. Her personal exhibitions were held in 1996 , 1997 (Minsks), and 2000 (Vitebsk). The works by Cherkas are in private collections in France, Syria, Norway, Russia and Belarus. In the painting she addresses herself to genres of a landscape, still life, portrait (with elements of a genre), and subject picture in painting. Two stylistic tendencies are clearly traced in the works of the artist. In landscapes ("Novorossisk", 1999) and still lives the author follows the traditions of a realistic trend, whereas for her favourite genre of a portrait and subject picture Cherkas has developed the individual original style. It is based on positions and picturesque manner of expressionism. In her works the artist develops thems of mutual relation between people, their internal life in the difficult and interesting environment. The emotionally sated picture images reflect the personal vision of the artist, the feeling overflowing her at the moment before creation a picture and giving a powerful impulse to birth of picture plots ("The Evening Conversation ", " With the Mum "). Although the pictures by Cherkas are quite often based on personal experiences of the artist, the motives of abstract nature are also present. The creative manner of the artist in such pictures is based on an original combination of rigid contours of subjects (images) marked with elastic dark lines, and on "open" colour. In a number works the clean, intensive colour adjoins to numerous gradation of colour shades ("I am a Clown", 1998). The picturesque manner of the artist has undergone a number of changes lately. The rigid contours have disappeared from figures, the colour decisions became manifold, light begins to play a huge role ("The Masks", 2001).

Svetlana Prokopeva,
Art critic,
Elder Research Officer of the European Art Department
of the National Museum of Arts of the Republic of Belarus

Oksana Cherkas is an interesting artist with a very unique style. It seems, that different feelings and emotions inside her are in a continual struggle, which is then displayed on a canvas. Oksana Cherkas’ painting is close to expressionism and primitivism. From the former the artist has taken the bright colours, the intense black contour and energy of feeling, from the latter she has taken the ability to reach a pictorial purpose in the straightest and shortest way. Heroes of her pictures: men, women, children, old women, dogs, cats, elephants reflects widely the surrounding world. It is worth noting that her works actually refers to the contemporary world and are even directed to the future.

Irina Sycheva,
Art critic,
Elder Research Officer
of the “Van’kovich house” Department of the National Museum of Arts of the Republic of Belarus

Оксана Черкас

Оксана Черкас родилась в 1965 году в Минске. В 1989 году окончила филологический факультет Минского педагогического института. Там же закончила театральные курсы получив диплом "Режиссер театрального коллектива". (Здесь можно скачать мою литератуную копозицию по мотивам переписки Бориса Пастернака и Марины Цветаевой, а также два варианта чтения поэмы "На красном коне." Марины Цветаевой - Прим. Оксаны Черкас) В 1990-1993 руководила детским театром в гимназии N5.

Занималась живописью в студии В.К.Гомонова, одновременно брала уроки в мастерской В.К. Цвирко. (Это не правда. - Прим. Оксаны Черкас )

из аннотация к выставке 2002 г. в Галлерее современного искусства в Минске










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