Elena Zolotnitsky's ROTHKO/Extinct Series


ROTHKO/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's HOT & HOTTER/Extinct Series


HOT & HOTTER/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's MADE TO ORDER/Extinct Series


MADE TO ORDER/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's FEELING OF BEING/Extinct Series


FEELING OF BEING/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's MELLO-YELLO/Extinct Series


MELLO-YELLO/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's NO TITLE/Extinct Series


NO TITLE/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's STRAWBERRY MOON/Extinct Series


STRAWBERRY MOON/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's GREY MATTERS/Extinct Series


GREY MATTERS/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's VIVID/Extinct Series


VIVID/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's LIGHTLY/Extinct Series


LIGHTLY/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's UNDERTOW/Extinct Series


UNDERTOW/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's SOLO/Extinct Series


SOLO/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's INDIAN SUMMER/Extinct Series


INDIAN SUMMER/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's RAW/Extinct Series


RAW/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's WABI SABI/Extinct Series


WABI SABI/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's RED & REDDER/Extinct Series


RED & REDDER/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's POWER OF TWO/Extinct Series


POWER OF TWO/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's MUDDY WATERS/Extinct Series


MUDDY WATERS/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's TRANSPARENT?Extinct SEries


TRANSPARENT?Extinct SEries
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's METAMORPHOSIS(3)/Extinct Series


METAMORPHOSIS(3)/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's METAMORPHOSIS(4)/Extinct Series


METAMORPHOSIS(4)/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's METAMORPHOSIS (5)/Extinct Series


METAMORPHOSIS (5)/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's ALL THAT DRAMA/Extinct Series


ALL THAT DRAMA/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's A Date With Klimt/Extinct Series


A Date With Klimt/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's AMOUR VERT/EXTINCT SERIES


AMOUR VERT/EXTINCT SERIES
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Safe Heaven/Extinct Series


Safe Heaven/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Turquoise Perfect/Extinct Series


Turquoise Perfect/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Disappearing Act


Disappearing Act
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's TRAVERSE


TRAVERSE
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Majestic/Extinct Series


Majestic/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Large Blue/Extinct Series


Large Blue/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's LOVESEAT/Extinct Series


LOVESEAT/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's PRIMAVERA/Extinct Series


PRIMAVERA/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Lancelot/Extinct Series


Lancelot/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's EXTINCT SERIES


EXTINCT SERIES
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Cadmium Blues/Extinct Series


Cadmium Blues/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's RETRO/Extinct Series


RETRO/Extinct Series
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's Takes Two To Tango


Takes Two To Tango
  

Elena Zolotnitsky's LE ROI BLEU/Extinct Series


LE ROI BLEU/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Crimson Royal/Extinct Series


Crimson Royal/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's METAMORPHOSIS/Extinct Series


METAMORPHOSIS/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's PRETTY & PRETTIER/Extinct Series


PRETTY & PRETTIER/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's ETUDE/VERT


ETUDE/VERT
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Easy Does It/Extinct Series


Easy Does It/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's WEATHERED


WEATHERED
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Love Seat for One/Extinct Series


Love Seat for One/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's HER/Extinct Series


HER/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's NO TITLE/Extinct Series


NO TITLE/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's OSMOSIS/Extinct Series


OSMOSIS/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's BECOMING/Extinct Series


BECOMING/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's GROUNDED/Extinct Series


GROUNDED/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's RED/Extinct Series


RED/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Metamorphosis/Extinct Series


Metamorphosis/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Metamorphosis II/Extinct Series


Metamorphosis II/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Submerged/Extinct Series


Submerged/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's RAW STUDY/Extinct Series


RAW STUDY/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Le Roi Study/Extinct Series


Le Roi Study/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Happy Go Lucky Study/Extinct Series


Happy Go Lucky Study/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's EXTINCT


EXTINCT
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Nocturnal Animal/Extinct Series


Nocturnal Animal/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's IRIDESCENT/Extinct Series


IRIDESCENT/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's Made To Order/Extinct Series


Made To Order/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's JURASSIC/Extinct Series


JURASSIC/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's DE-LOVELY/Extinct Series


DE-LOVELY/Extinct Series
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Elena Zolotnitsky's DEJA VU/Extinct Series


DEJA VU/Extinct Series
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For the past few years I have been infatuated with the series I am working on. I named it "Extinct". It is a collection of semi-abstract characters. They are "portraits" of antique arm chairs, which exist only in my imagination. Each of them is colored into certain emotion. The first one I painted refused to come to life till I laid the gold leaf application on its backing, reminiscent of vertebrae... That intuitive move transformed the object of an old chair into a species of extinction. The reference that gave the name to the first painting and to the series. I see this collection as a logical progression of my creative journey. Over the past few years I have been more interested in the abstract qualities of the surface. Color becoming the essential means of expression. With the simplifying of shapes and composition and discovering a new complexity of color and paint application, I am not just painting a picture - I am experiencing one. The physical part of  "experience" involves a lot of scrapings, impasto, transparencies, palette knife applications, accidents and false starts - "working" the surface till it starts breathing on its own.