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Larisa Ivakina - Artist
504-276-2693
Chalmette, Louisiana
Summer - 2007
Finally back in her New Orleans home, following the damage of Hurricane Katrina, Larisa is staying busy with Art Shows (she is currently in Russia for a one person show for her,) the local New Orleans Mid-City art market and workshops for private students in drawing, acrylics, watercolors and iconography.
Larisa’s discipline extends from water color to oil, wooden icon and etching to mural, interior design to festival posters for Russian festivals and the Tchaikovsky festival. The versatility of her artistic expression is found in landscapes, flowers, nudes, portraiture and religious art.
Major contributions of religious art in New Orleans make her one of the first women to have achieved such in church art. St. Jude Shrine, and the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Vincent de Paul are both graced by murals, icons and large oil paintings in her distinctive style. Earlier this year Larisa completed a series of the 14 Stations of the Cross in egg tempera on mahogany wood in the Byzantine style for Blessed Francis X Seelos Catholic Church in New Orleans.
Seclusion in the Russian mountains led Larisa to paint flowers profusely. She designed interior frescoes for the Marine academy, mosaics and grafito for exterior design and office interiors in her homeland. Her landscapes are in Russian museums and she developed a teaching method that is still being used in public school systems throughout Russia .
America, which is her second country, sees her art at galleries in and around Louisiana. Recent showings have been in San Antonio, Texas; Novorossiysk and Moscow, Russia; St. Francisville, Monroe, Kenner and at the Loyola University law school in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Larisa is a member of the Louisiana Watercolor Society, she participates in Art Beaucoup and taught art to children at Bode Art School and Lynn Oak School. Her costume designs for the play “Degas” in New Orleans received rave reviews.
Larisa is currently available for teaching work shops in the New Orleans area.
Send E-Mail to: larisa266@hotmail.com
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