Ilya Volykhine
Analog $4,850 framed Status: Available
Mirror Image $4,550 framed Status: Available
Waiheke $4,650 framed Status: Sold
Little Brother $8,750 framed Status: Available
First Place $8,500 framed Status: Sold
Islands in the Sky $4,500 framed Status: Available
Take Off $8,750 framed Status: Sold
Fly Away $12,000 framed Status: Available
The Strong Silent Type $6,050 framed Status: Available
The Family Dacha $12,000 framed Status: Available
The Earl and Lady Grey $3,500 framed Status: Sold
Repose $4,750 framed Status: Sold
P is for Patience $12,000 framed Status: Available
Orange and Blue $3,750 framed Status: Sold
My Little Squirrel $4,750 framed Status: Sold
Into the Woods $12,000 framed Status: Under Option
Forest Picnic $3,500 framed Status: Available
Recline $12,000 framed Status: Available
Skyline $2,500 framed Status: Available
Virtual Insanity $3,000 framed Status: Sold
We are pleased to invite you to view Ilya Volykhine’s new solo ‘Inhabited’ exhibition now showing at our Auckland Gallery.
Address: 19A Osborne Street, Newmarket, Auckland
Email: auckland@exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
Phone: Ngaire (09) 5235560
Ilya was born in Ust Labinsk, Russia, he and his family have lived all over the world; Ilya has exhibited and held residencies worldwide, from New York to Estonia. Similarly, his artwork can be found in private and public collections around the globe. Since moving to New Zealand in 2009, Ilya has exhibited throughout New Zealand in both solo and group exhibitions.
Ilya Volykhine’s paintings are darkly comic, the characters within his pictures battling their way through the anxieties and joy of life, his narratives loose, playful and chaotic. What lies at the heart of these paintings is Volykhine’s intuitive process, his willingness and confidence to allow the story to unfold as he paints, his expressive brushwork opening up a space for his characters to breathe, to take on a life yet unexplored
His intentions are not to celebrate or glamourize his subjects, but to simply depict them with truth and honesty.
“Since my work mainly grows itself by my hand, but with little of my mind, I have barely any thought or idea of what the painting will become when I start,” says Ilya.
“The painting then takes on a life of its own where I am simply a vessel through which being and pure creation play out their performance. This shifting idea allows my paintings to fall in and out of perspective and allows me to experiment with both highly controlled and loose mark-making.”
