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BIO
TATIANA
Iliina-Gooden |
| 20+ Years a
Professional Artist in Canada and
Russia |
| Studied
art in St. Petersburg, in one of
Russia's most respected and prestigious faculties |
Tatiana
Iliina-Gooden is fortunate to be
blessed with at least three qualities of
great artists:
- Tatiana's gift of natural artistic
talent
verges on supernatural!
- Tatiana has 9+ years of specialized
art education, (mostly in walking distance from the Hermitage
and the Russian Museum), in some of Russia's
finest schools, studying under masters of
their specialties.
- Tatiana's passion for and love
of art are rivalled only by her passion for her
career and love for her family.
Art
dealers and collectors agree that one of the keys to
successful art collecting and investing is
to select artists who follow through with
their careers. In the case of Tatiana Iliina-Gooden,
you have a person who has not strayed from
her art career since she started working,
back in the U.S.S.R. during the Perestroika period. |
| Tatiana Exhibiting at
Montreal City Hall |
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Tatiana
(left) with Montreal Mayor Gerald
Tremblay and Vandart Gallery owner, Violetta
Safarova, beside Tatiana's
art,
at a 2005 exhibition at Montreal
City Hall.
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Uste Luga, 30"x36", acrylic on
canvas, 2007 |
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Some of the Milestones in Tatiana's
Career:
- Received teaching certificate
to teach art and drafting
- Gained admittance to the prestigious
Monumental
Art Faculty of the Mukhina Higher
Institue of Art and Design. Only eight
people out of hundreds of applicants, from all over the Soviet Union,
were accepted
each year.
- Completion of four-year
program
plus thesis
year at Mukhina
- Monumental projects of all sizes,
mostly in St. Petersburg,
Kaliningrad,
on the Baltic coast, and Pyatigorsk,
the
major Russian center of the Caucuses.
- Immigrated to Montreal, Canada
- Completetion of dozens of monumental
projects
in Montreal and
elsewhere in
Canada
- Participation in numerous exhibitions,
both group and solo in Russia
and Canada,
from 1985 through 2009
- Hundreds of commissions, involving canvases,
portraits, murals, trompe l'oeils
- Public Art -
dozens of permanent works in Canada and Russia
- Tatiana has sold over 1,000
canvases worldwide, including collectors in most U.S.
states and
Canadian provinces, France, the U.K., Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece,
South Africa, Iceland, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, and dozens
of other
countries.
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| Sarsaparilla, 24"x36", 2009 |
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The Woman
with Russian and Canadian ice in
her veins and Passion
for Art ablaze in her
heart!
- When power and heat were knocked out by
a
devastating ice storm in Montreal one January,
Tatiana, staying
with her family at some friends' house, still
completed several canvases to fill a commission
for a customer.
- By the side of her infant son, who was
recovering
from heart surgery at the Montreal Childrens
Hospital, Tatiana signed and numbered hundreds
of prints of her work for a corporate commission.
- While painting a mural on a 12-storey
building,
she rode out many a windstorm on
the swingstage
scaffolding, while the men who were
painting
the rest of the building scrambled
for cover
in the coffee shop (uh - could it
be they
were getting paid by the hour?).
- Dedicated
to sharing her art and
abilities
with the community, Tatiana completed six
projects in four different schools, exposing to and engaging hundreds
of students in the creative process.
- A few years ago, Tatiana conceived and
established
a mosaic workshop in a special needs school,
and trained the staff and students in all
aspects of mosaic production, to the extent
that the workshop has plans to operate semi-independently.
- Tatiana has conceived several series of Eco art,
to draw attention to several of the urgent issues facing our planet,
including global warming, pollution and the disappearance of natural
habitats.
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| City of Sweet Success, 24"x48"
acrylic on canvas, 2009 |
The Inspiration and
Creation of Tatiana Iliina... |
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From Tatiana's
inspirational cityscape series, we can perhaps gain an insight into her
work and her outlook. We see an idealized cityscape with a
soaring
skyline. It could represent her adopted city of Montreal, or perhaps
New York, which Tatiana visits often, where many of her fellow Russian
emigre artists and friends now live.
We see a place of unlimited
potential - a place where dreams can come true. And this is probably
typical of the perception that many Soviets had, and still have, of
America.
We see a place where an artist such as Tatiana might
live. Someone who has beat all odds to lift herself up from humblest beginnings and
attain
success on the international stage.
We also see that the best times are still ahead! |
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