Maria Isaenok

Maria was named the first Belarusian impressionist. Her paintings are a wonder weaved from light and air. She took in clean colors of the sky and woods. The color spectrum of her works embodies her ability to observe and transfer those images onto a canvas.

Maria’s still life paintings are extremely attractive and contain some mystery in them. They exude romanticism and enigmatic uncertainty. It’s as if her works are not complete and because of that are very special.

There are a lot of golden-yellow and emerald green colors in her paintings – those are her favorite tones. “I used to love creating more complicated paintings. They contained a lot of “foreign” details and objects. But lately my stories have become much more simple and laconic,” says Maria. Often times her works also had crooked vases and jam dishes – that was a way to highlight the fragile beauty and vulnerability of the surrounding world. Now her objects are stable and more realistic.

Maria and her husband Nikolay spend an entire summer at their studio in a small village. The earth and flowers give her the energy that transforms into sunny and colorful images in her still life paintings.

Maria Isaenok believes that love “makes a person to move forward, helps us to see the beauty of the world and makes us strong. And with this feeling inside we can overcome any obstacles and achieve anything we desire”.

Maria Isaenok was born in Kiseli village, Belarus in 1949. She graduated from the Minsk Art College.
In 1986 she became a member of the Belarusian Artists’ Union

Personal Exhibitions
1998 The Art Gallery. Minsk, Belarus
2000 The State Art Gallery. Minsk, Belarus
2002 The Museum of Modern Art. Minsk, Belarus
2003 The exhibition at the library of A. Mitskevich. Vilnius, Lithuania
2003 The exhibition at the library of Y. Kolas. Minsk, Belarus
2003 The exhibition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. Minsk, Belarus
2003 The pavilion of “Sierra di Milano”, Italy
2004 The pavilion of Olivetti Congress. Vidracco, Italy
2005 The National Art Museum of Belarus. Minsk, Belarus
2006 The gallery of G. Pryanishnikov. Svetlogorsk, Belarus

Group Exhibitions
1992 The Art Gallery of Willianova University. Pennsylvania, USA
1992 The exhibition based on the results of the international plein-air. Poland
1997 The exhibition based on the results of the plein-air of Hrutski. Vitebsk, Belarus
1998 The International Art Show “The Central Artists’ House”. Moscow, Russia
1999 “Pitter Breigel” Art Gallery. Holland
2000 “Belarus to the Third Millennium”, the State Art Gallery “The Art Palace”. Minsk, Belarus
2000 The Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
2000 “Trend-Gallery”, Steinfurt, Germany
2000 The exhibition based on the results of the plein-air of Hrutski. Vitebsk, Belarus
2002 “Galleria di Arte Modern”, St. Vincent, Italy
2002 The exhibition at the King Palace, Colorno, Italy
2002 The exhibition dedicated to Y. Kupala’s and Y. Kolas’s 100-year anniversary; the State Art Gallery “The Art Palace”. Minsk, Belarus
2003 The exhibition of the International Artists’ Guild, the “University of Culture” Art Gallery. Minsk, Belarus
2006 The exhibition of the International Artists’ Guild, the Museum of Modern Art of Belarus. Minsk, Belarus

Maria Isaenok’s works are at the National Art Museum of Belarus, the Museum of Modern Art (Minsk, Belarus), the regional Art Museum of Vitebsk (Vitebsk, Belarus), the funds of the Artists’ Union of Russia, the Art Gallery of Willianova University (Pennsylvania, USA), “Pitter Breigel” art gallery (Holland), the private collections in Belarus, Italy, Russia, Poland, Germany, the USA, Israel, the United Kingdom and Lithuania.

ARTICLES: 

"Mastatstva" ("Art") magazine #3, 2003 by Svetlana Pogranovskaya (in Belarusian), pdf (420KB)

"Mastatstva" ("Art") magazine #4, 2003 by Galina Fatyhova (in Belarusian), pdf (370KB)

[gallery of Maria Isaenok]