Asya Livshits

Best known for her figurative oil paintings, Asya Livshits captures moments suspended in time using a delicate combination of light and shadow. The subjects, often people depicted within ordinary scenes, are inspired by time, music, and memory, each marking a singular impression caught before the moment has come to its end. Livshits creates a trace of how she felt about something before it sinks to the bottom of the endless pit of other semi-memories. When she chooses subject matter, Livshits asks herself if it's important enough for her to sustain many hours of working with it. "Is it interesting enough, sexy enough, horrible enough, average enough?" She will be in a very close relationship with the painting and it will become a part of her.

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