Olga
Mykolaivna Grechina

Schedule. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Was born in Kovrov. in 1972 he graduated from the Department of graphics of the Moscow state art Institute. V. I. Surikov. After graduation, she worked in "Agitplakat", and for many years was engaged in printing graphics — lithography, etching, engraving, silk-screen printing. The artist created a series on modern and historical themes, characterized by complex compositional constructs, application of the principles, installation, alignment in the sheet several plot moves. By the end of the 1970s Grechina began serious experiments in painting, trying to "translate" philosophies of graphic sheets on language temperamental pictorial plastic. printed graphics". Changing technique, it has not abandoned attempts to find a picturesque system that is able to adequately reproduce the complexity, contradictions, the Artist shows his contemporaries that closely scrutinizes the world of their life, which is determined by the atmosphere, the rhythms of a big industrial city. This world pleases her and at the same time disappointing. Grechina drawn to the portrait image of my comrades in the profession, highlighting the tendency to reflect the seriousness towards their work ("MEDITATION", 1989; "the ARTIST in the RAIN", 1989; "the ARTIST", 1988). The picturesque style of her larger canvases associated with the direction prevailing in Russia in the mid-1970s and dubbed "photorealism" (the domestic version of Hyper-realism). It is based on copying photographic images enlarged to the size of a large canvas and embedded in the picturesque structure. Smooth, glossy surface, light-reflecting glass, metal, plastic limit gives not only clarity to the image, but the originality of the sight and object, and person. Feature of canvas Grechina is that along with the sharpness of the images at the same time as it would negate its enhanced actively playing the temperamental painting, is a free, impasto applying paint, deliberately "blurring" the clarity of the photographic image. They inevitably attract the attention of daring singularity of solutions, give rise to a chain of associations, like an invitation to unlocking the essence of the depicted ("BLINDFOLD", 1988; "the CORRIDOR", 1993; "waiting for the BALL", 1994; "ROAD TO CARNIVAL", 1997-1998; "WEDDING", 1996). In 1998-1999 Grechina has created a series of "Natura" ("Nature"), in which most consistently and clearly expressed principles of the style of photorealism. From 1974 Grechina is participant of many all-Union, urban and international exhibitions. Solo exhibitions were held in Moscow galleries "Mars" (1990), "Panart" (1993), "Interkolor" (1996), "arena" (1999) and France in the gallery "Carlier" (1992). Work Grechina are in the state Tretyakov gallery, the Museum of cosmonautics in Moscow, the Museum of modern art P. Ludwig, in Germany, in other museums and private collections in Russia, USA, England, France.