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Manhattan Arts Gallery
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8 and The Fish
oil on canvas, 39' x 47" |
The Decadence 4
oil on canvas, 39' x 24" |
The Ladoga Lake
oil on wood, 22" x 28" |
The Decadence 3
oil on canvas, 39" x 39"
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The Lace
oil on canvas, 35" x 20"
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Peonies
oil on canvas, 22" x 22"
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Artist Profile
Natasha Rosenbaum was born in 1960 in the Gorlovka, Donets region which is now the Ukraine. She grew up there until the age of 16 when she moved to St. Petersburg. In 2001, Natasha established herself in Moscow.
Since 1998, the artist has been exhibiting mainly in Moscow and St. Petersburg, including at the Central House of the Artist (Moscow) and the International Federation of Artists (St. Petersburg). In 2003 she represented Russia at the 4th edition of the Florence Biennale. For this international art event, a 40-page catalogue of her work was published containing essays by Professor Mikhail German and Yulia Kcharina. Natasha has also exhibited at The Lightgallery in London, and Nancy, Muro in Mallorca, Spain. Her work is represented in both public and private collections in Russia, U.S., Israel and Canada.
Before starting her career as an artist she worked in the very technical environment of engineering. In 1983 she graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and subsequently worked as an engineer at the Russian research institute Electrosila for several years. Longing for a more creative role, she began attending evening classes at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, in St Petersburg in 1991.
Between 1991 and 1996, Natasha studied privately in the studio of Victor Korobeinkov, at the Gaza Palace of Culture. With Victor as her mentor, Natasha experienced an intense period of art education and personal self-development, during which she was introduced to the metaphysical principles of painting, nature and philosophy.
During the year of 1997, she spent a great deal of time studying and copying the works of great European artists at the Hermitage Museum, such as Velazquez, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Edgar Degas, which would later on have an immediate impact on her painting style.
Natasha says of painting "It excites and calms, resolves questions and instills confidence, activates all levels of the conscious -- and perhaps the subconscious too."
Natasha lives and works in St. Petersburg.
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