Mixed media, acrylic, gold leaf and gel pen — 25 original works from an ever-growing collection by Aliona Kosloff, shown one at a time, the way a painting actually asks to be looked at.
Acrylic, fabric and gold leaf on canvas
Collage, photocopy, crackled gold on wood with resin
Stampers, collage, on wood with resin
Acrylic on canvas
Balloon and twigs, acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Gel pen inks
Acrylic and gold leaf
Gel pen inks
Gel pen inks
Gel pen ink
Linocut, style of lubok
Mixed media
Mixed media collage
Mixed media collage
Mixed media collage
Linocut
Mixed media collage
Aliona Kosloff paints the way she lives — loudly, joyfully, and completely without a single lane to stay in. Walk into her home and you'll find gilded mannequins beside crocheted blankets, icons beside peacocks, a Dyson parked on a Kazakh rug like it belongs there — and it does. That same appetite for collision runs straight through the work: a Byzantine Madonna one day, a magpie mid-song the next, a Pushkin fairy tale rendered in acrylic swirls the day after that.
Her subjects are never just one thing. A peacock is also the eternity of the soul. A childhood in Australia is also a Russian one. A cat is also Byzantium. Between the gold leaf and the gel pen, the folk motifs and the fine art references, there's a restless, delighted intelligence at work — someone who has clearly decided that a life, like a wall of paintings, is more interesting crowded than curated.
This is only a slice of what she's made. The collection keeps growing — check back for more.