Artist Yuriy Ibragimov

Born and educated in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Yuriy Ibragimov now lives and works in New York. Classically trained, he combines his traditional skills with exciting new mediums to create contemporary and vivid works. Yuiriy’s paintings are held in the State Museum of Arts, Uzbekistan and in private collections worldwide. Yuriy Ibragimov's layered images have a rare quality: they simultaneously capture both the complexity and the clarity of life. The wrought quality of Ibragimov's encaustic and oil processes lends itself to a turbid visual experience and, from a distance, his images seem obscured and abstracted. In actuality, Ibragimov's paintings intimately and delicately render specific moments. They evoke the distinct characteristics of an experience, whether capturing a woman's look of surprise or the wind's effect on a willowy tree. Because of the coexisting roughness and lucidity, Ibragimov's paintings are movingly honest, embodying both the indecipherability and the transparency of daily experience.