About Artist
Dina Belyayeva is a New England-based, Russian-born contemporary realist artist. She received her training in a town near Moscow, famous for its historical artist colony. Early on she worked in portraiture and illustration honing her skills in representational genres. After her move to the United States, she pursued career paths in business and academia. Those experiences provided her with multifaceted inputs and created pre-requisite conditions for developing a language to access parts of collective unconscious. She began experimenting with mediums and visuals in 2017 and starting in 2020 she dedicated herself fully to her art practice. Her visual style is fluid with a strong emotional signature that provides a unifying theme for her artworks. As an emerging artist, Dina Belyayeva received recognition at juried exhibitions and her works found homes in private collections in the United States and across Europe.
Artist Statement
We live in meta-modern times when production capacities are infinite, attention spans are short and artists are challenged by AI to reinvent art, merge styles and imitate mastery. As a representational artist, I help my audience stay grounded in reality and appreciate authenticity of human experience through visual means. I approach my subjects with an intent to capture immediacy and let authentic energy shine through. The concept behind realism in art rests on the assumption of nature as the ultimate master and authority on what is beautiful, and what is readily internalized. Artist is a mere medium that accentuates pertinent details and translates emotional states into a form that may resonate with a viewer.
