Valentina DuBasky "New Paintings: Mongolian Horses and Siberian Tigers"
Masters & Pelavin
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The new series of “cave-wall” paintings, Mongolian Horses and Siberian Tigers, is inspired by recent travels from the Amur River basin that forms a natural border between Northeastern China (Manchuria), Inner Mongolia and the Russian Far East to the mountain highlands and forest monasteries between Burma and Thailand.
DuBasky’s paintings of horses, bison and stags began twenty years ago with travels to research cave-wall and ancient art along the Silk Route. Her animals appear within a thickly painted “strata” of oil paint and wax and have been compared to the mythic cave paintings of Lascaux and Altamira.
With her introduction to modern day Mongolians the artist was able to also connect to a culture that has a living and vibrant connection to its ancestral roots. Her travels are often in conjunction with ecological, historical or cultural missions, and her “adventures” bring her into close contact with the people and their lives.
[Image: Valentina DuBasky "Red Horse & Red Field" (2008) oil on canvas 51 x 60 in.]
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from October 22, 2008 to November 29, 2008