Lucy Soloveva (LU)
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Personal space and quiet mean a lot to me; this is the kind of atmosphere I like to work in, without thinking about the result.
Entire universes happen inside your head, and you let them loose; your mission is to express them on paper. For me, the process is the most interesting part. The outcome is always ambiguous; you might love it or hate it, it might be better or worse. While working, you’re simply a tool — like a pencil or a brush — which helps create specific pictures drawing from the general vocabulary of images and ideas.
There is always a sense of understatement in my portraits. In poetry, aposiopesis is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination of the reader — or in our case, the viewer.
Entire universes happen inside your head, and you let them loose; your mission is to express them on paper. For me, the process is the most interesting part. The outcome is always ambiguous; you might love it or hate it, it might be better or worse. While working, you’re simply a tool — like a pencil or a brush — which helps create specific pictures drawing from the general vocabulary of images and ideas.
There is always a sense of understatement in my portraits. In poetry, aposiopesis is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination of the reader — or in our case, the viewer.
Artist statement
She was born in 1987.
In 2010, she graduated from Stoletovs Vladimir State University with a degree in Design. She received training in the studio of artist Yuri Negodaev.
Lucy Soloveva (LU) is based in Vladimir. As a student, she took an interest in street art. From those years, she has retained both her nickname and a guiding principle in her creative career: a work of art is a direct statement that should be understood without intermediaries.
She names Giorgio Morandi and Lucian Freud as her biggest influences in painting. However disparate their themes and styles might be, both remained true to figurative art, which they believed had great potential for constant reinvention.
Female portraiture has been Lucy Soloveva’s (LU) genre of choice for a few years now. Depicted outside any social or narrative context, the women in her paintings look quite introspective. The artist seems to be deciphering their features, postures, and emotions — and invites the viewer to do the same, honing their capacity for empathy.
In 2010, she graduated from Stoletovs Vladimir State University with a degree in Design. She received training in the studio of artist Yuri Negodaev.
Lucy Soloveva (LU) is based in Vladimir. As a student, she took an interest in street art. From those years, she has retained both her nickname and a guiding principle in her creative career: a work of art is a direct statement that should be understood without intermediaries.
She names Giorgio Morandi and Lucian Freud as her biggest influences in painting. However disparate their themes and styles might be, both remained true to figurative art, which they believed had great potential for constant reinvention.
Female portraiture has been Lucy Soloveva’s (LU) genre of choice for a few years now. Depicted outside any social or narrative context, the women in her paintings look quite introspective. The artist seems to be deciphering their features, postures, and emotions — and invites the viewer to do the same, honing their capacity for empathy.
2025
2023
Fanagoria Winery × Artists: 100 Shades labels for a limited collection of wines. LOBBY Gallery, Moscow
2022
Poeme. Carré d’artistes, Moscow
NOW, Free Arts Festival. WIP Art Space, Moscow
Bench of Peace art project, Suzdal
Creative Laboratory. Myra Center, Suzdal
NOW, Free Arts Festival. WIP Art Space, Moscow
Bench of Peace art project, Suzdal
Creative Laboratory. Myra Center, Suzdal
2021
Fortune Cookies, group exhibition. Fligel Center for Contemporary Culture, Vladimir
Recreation Areas (with Dima Zhukov). Fligel Center for Contemporary Culture, Vladimir
Recreation Areas (with Dima Zhukov). Fligel Center for Contemporary Culture, Vladimir
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2019
Vkus Bumagi Print Fair. Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017
Russia Without Prejudice, group apartment exhibition. Vladimir
2016
Art Subject, Contemporary Art Festival. Vladimir
Selected Exhibitions
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