Canvas — Paintings by Anya Vasilieva

Large oil painting — abstract forms dissolving into darkness, layers of violet and ash

ANYA VASILIEVA

Paintings, 2019–2026

Canvas

Abstract oil painting with deep indigo and violet forms dissolving into each other, textured impasto surface

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Dissolution I

2023Oil on linen180 × 240 cm

First in the dissolution series — painted over three months during a period of deliberate isolation.

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Threshold

2023Oil and cold wax on panel120 × 120 cm

The moment before crossing. Square format enforces the stillness.

Atmospheric painting of a garden at night, deep greens and blacks with soft violet moonlight

Night Garden

2022Oil on canvas200 × 160 cm

Wet pavement reflections abstracted into vertical bands of grey and pale silver light

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After the Rain

2022Oil on linen150 × 200 cm

Painted from memory, two weeks after the fact.

Large scale abstract with graphite marks through oil paint, forms at the edge of perception

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Periphery

2021Oil and graphite on canvas240 × 180 cm

Small intimate study on paper, loose marks in raw umber and titanium white

Unnamed Study

2021Oil on paper60 × 80 cm

Never titled. Some things resist naming.

The Studio

Paint-stained
evidence.

Every painting begins as a question the studio asks. These are the moments between answers — the mixing, the hesitation, the hour when the light changes and the work changes with it.

Artist hands mixing oil paint on a glass palette, raw sienna and titanium white

Close-up of brush loaded with thick impasto paint, mid-stroke on canvas

Studio corner with stacked canvases and jars of turpentine, natural window light

Paint-stained wooden palette with traces of violet and deep blue, evidence of the work

"The painting is finished when it stops asking me to keep going."

Anya Vasilieva, 2024

Galerie Nordine Zidoun, Luxembourg, 2025·The Hole, New York, 2024·Sunday Art Fair, London, 2024·Untitled Art Fair, Miami, 2023·Galerie Nordine Zidoun, Luxembourg, 2025·The Hole, New York, 2024·Sunday Art Fair, London, 2024·Untitled Art Fair, Miami, 2023·

Recent Work

2025–2026

Recent painting — still life dissolved into pure color field, barely figurative, mostly light

Still, 2025

Oil on linen200 × 160 cm

Completed January 2025. First time using a restricted palette of three colors.

Resin-layered painting catching light at multiple depths, violet and deep blue suspended in amber

Violet Hours

Oil and resin on panel90 × 120 cm

The resin layers trap the violet — you have to move to see it fully.

In Progress

Becoming

Oil on canvas240 × 300 cm

In progress. Exhibited once, unfinished, deliberately.

Portfolio Document

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A 48-page PDF — full-resolution images, exhibition history, artist statement, and dimensions. Formatted for gallery submission.

Dissolution I

Threshold

Night Garden

After the Rain

Periphery

Unnamed Study

Paint-stainedevidence.

2025–2026

Still, 2025

Violet Hours

Becoming

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Paint-stained
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