“In my paintings, I explore what exists beneath the visible—spiritual forces, emotional energy, and the mystery that cannot always be named. I repeatedly return to the flower as both subject and symbol. Its beauty, complexity, fragility, and transformation offer a way to explore what lies beyond representation. My work often begins with 17th-century Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings or my own floral photography. Through a process of distillation, I dissect, simplify, fragment, and reassemble the source, allowing color, shape, and paint to develop their own logic. Collage is an essential part of this process. I create painted papers and cut them into new compositions, embracing both intention and chance. This practice—painting with scissors—opens possibilities that I might not discover through painting alone. Whether working from a masterwork or my own imagery, I am ultimately searching for the essence of the image: stripping away the unnecessary to reveal its underlying structure, energy, and beauty.” -Yana Beylinson
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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