DeepARTment

Lark Pilinsky

Born in the remote mountains of central Asia and surrounded by wild nature, Lark (Larisa Pilinsky) brings powerful healing vibrations of nature into her unique art style based on meditation and intuition.

From the beginning of her art career, Lark’s art caught the attention of art lovers and gained recognition from art jurors including LA Weekly critic Peter Frank, Sweeney Art Gallery director Tyler Stallings, Santa Monica Museum of Art director Lisa Melandri and MOCA curator Alma Ruiz.

Fusing classical and contemporary art traditions, Lark's award-winning artworks carry her signature gestural brushstrokes and vibrant color palettes. They have been featured in the many prestigious exhibitions, art catalogs and sold globally in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia, Armenia, Canada, Sweden and many other countries.

In 2021 - 2023 Lark's art was exhibited in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the Shiba City Museum of Art. In both shows Lark got Gold Awards.

Articles about Lark's art and her achievements were published in the Huffington Post, Immigrant, Voyage, CanvasRebel, Art & Beyond and Painting World Magazines describing her work and career. 

Lina Kogan

Lina Kogan is an award winning American contemporary sculptor and mixed media artist. Her multifaceted mixed media works, collages, abstract paintings and sculptures were exhibited by Torrance Art Museum, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Pacific Design Center, Neutra Institute Museum, TAG Gallery, The Brewery Art Colony, and the California Conference for Advancement of Ceramics Arts (CCACA). The artist has had eight solo shows and has participated in over 50 group exhibitions in the US and overseas.

Kogan has received multiple awards including the Emerging Artists Jeanne Ward Foundation award and the Homage to Russian Avant-Garde award by renowned art critic Peter Frank. 

Kogan was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. She moved to the US in 1992 and graduated from University of Southern California in 2000 with a Masters degree in Multimedia and Creative Technologies. Kogan’s first ceramic sculptures emerged in 1996, followed by mixed media and experimental textured abstracts incorporating found objects. Kogan has also co-curated and moderated on-line art-talks, exhibits, and charity auctions. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Aziza Azizova 

Aziza Azizova is an Artist, events and exhibitions organizer, art dealer, art curator and AzziArt Gallery owner. She created more than 1000 paintings and has more than 250 art collectors . Her art was exhibited in Marina Del Ray, Silver Lake, Laguna beach, Los Angeles, CA, Florence, Italy, Montreux, Switzerland, during the Artbasel Switzerland, West Hollywood, LA, in Malibu, West Los Angeles, AzziArt Gallery LA and more. Aziza's art is in a private collection in different countries. She started teaching art classes from 2019, provides painting classes with kids and adults, texture art classes, paint and sip, art classes for kids from 2.5 years old. She teaches her own techniques, also provides combination of art and dance classes (salsa and bachata). She is also organizing face painting events for kids, works with Pick Pico, Cheviot Hills, Palms Neighborhood communities. She is also organizing events and exhibitions for international artists and for established and emerging artists. She provides classes in English and Russian languages, easy working with both, kids and adults. Aziza has worked with more than 1000 students during the span of her artistic carrier. 

Olesia Volk  

IOlesya Volk is a Los Angeles-based artist/writer.

She was born in Baku, Azerbajan; at the age of 16 moved to Moscow. There, she graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts; started publishing her tales and puppet plays.

After moving to the US, she received her MFA in Film & TV( Animation) at UCLA. Worked doing web animation.

In her paintings, Olesya explores patterns of nature, mostly tree bark, as a possibility of intuitive "readings" and leaps into the primordial language.

Olesya's art genres also include small dioramas, paper theatre; she writes and illustrates picture books and graphic novels. 

Eya Ozerova  

Eya Ozerova Los Angeles based artist, born in the Ukraine. MFA degree from the Stroganoff University in Moscow.

Eya works in different media but her passion is needle felted large tapestries. She teaches her felting technique on which she published a book “Pictorial Felt”, and provides art workshops and healing art retreats. She brings people together to make one art piece for all, while focusing on one intention - harmony and peace within. In 2022 she started Ukrainian Mandala Project, gathering people together to create collective art as an alternative to the war act of love and support for Ukraine. 

Pashyo Sarkin  

"Growing up in Vienna, Austria, Pashyo Sarkin spent many evenings doodling, designing and painting instead of watching television. In 1994 she co-founded LarkGallery with Lark Pilinsky and together they staged numerous group exhibitions in the greater Los Angeles area. In 2016/17 she ran a pop-up gallery in the SouthBay, where she also curated some exhibitions for LarkGallery. To this day she is involved in many of LarkGallery’s exhibitions.

Being a meditator since 1984 and facilitator for Osho Active Meditations her art emerges from her spontaneous interaction with the energy of the present moment. Pashyo loves to play with shades of colors giving expression to her moods, feelings and longings, creating dreamlike visions or interacting with natural phenomena. 

She is also a musician, dancer and writes essays about her life experiences. 

Anush Babayan  

What world, or universe, does Anush Babayan inhabit? It is one strange and alienating and at the same time eerily familiar. These unearthly apparitions, redolent of cosmic calamities and the nebulas they leave behind, seem like the kinds of phenomena visible only through the most powerful and far-flung telescopes. But lurking in their nuclei, bobbing at the event horizons of these ever-metamorphosing black holes, are hints of life, even of humanity, as if some dreamt-of soul has come to inhabit, perhaps even to animate, the galaxies that dwarf us. We are physically much tinier than the things we find throughout the heavens; but what size is our spirit? Can the passion of one human heart be encompassed by a vast, glowing clot of gas? Can the faith of an orbiting planet match the faith of a pet or a spouse here on earth? Can we see the far end of another man or woman any easier than we can the far end of the firmament? Anush Babayan’s paintings may lose us in the stars, but their biggest revelation is that the stars are within us, that every human is a cosmic mystery. For all the glorious luminescence of her elusive renditions, Babayan’s preoccupation is with her own species and its own radiance. 

Victoria Williamson  

Born and raised in the vibrant city of Baku, Azerbaijan, I have always been captivated by the allure of art and beauty from a young age. Despite my deep-rooted passion for creativity, the harsh realities of living through the Soviet Union era meant that pursuing artistic endeavors was viewed as a luxury. In a society where survival took precedence over dreams, the path seemed clear: become a doctor, engineer, or lawyer. However, my love for art never waned. It simmered beneath the surface, waiting for the right moment to emerge. Now, in the later years of my life, my artistic expressions have finally blossomed from the depths of my soul and heart, where they lay dormant for so long.
Through my artworks, I invite you to explore the profound emotions and untold stories that have been silently etched within me over the years. Each piece represents a part of my journey, a testament to resilience, and a celebration of the beauty that perseveres despite adversity.