Beylinson is continually evolving her practice, working at the intersection of realism and abstraction. With traditional Chinese brush painting in mind, she explores the nuances of brush stroke techniques integrating Western and Eastern principles.
Her upbringing in Central Asia, with the vibrant fabrics, patterns, and colors, influences her visual language. This cultural richness blends with a dedicated study of art history, particularly an appreciation of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish masters.
While her paintings are structurally grounded, they are also highly intuitive. By attuning herself to each work, she responds to its subtleties and engaging with the technical narrative allowing the process to guide her. To Beylinson, this approach represents the purest form of creation—a dialogue with the painting itself.
Yana Beylinson
Yana Beylinson is a contemporary American painter based in New Jersey, near New York City. Beylinson’s paintings explore the dynamic relationship between light and surfaces, opaque or translucent. Drawing inspiration from 17th-century Dutch master paintings, she reinterprets them in her original work, where colors and shapes take on lives of their own, becoming as essential as the physical subjects they represent. Her brushwork fuses Eastern and Western principles, emphasizing the energy of the stroke itself.
Her work has received numerous awards and is included in private collections worldwide, as well as in public collections such as the Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, NY. Beylinson has created large-scale public installations in Hong Kong and China.
Originally from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Beylinson began her formal art education at a young age. She earned a BBA from Baruch College in New York City in 2000 and continued her studies at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons, and the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited in the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Principle Gallery, and First Street Gallery, among others. She has had two solo shows at Abend Gallery in Denver, CO, and will serve on the panel for Realism Live 2024.
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