Ksenia Dolinskaya
Ksenia Dolinskaya is a contemporary artist working in the direction of psychological realism. Her practice combines multi-layered oil painting in the techniques of the old masters and original graphics.
Growing up in the family of a theater designer, Ksenia received an education in theatrical design. This experience shaped her focus on composition, character dramaturgy, and stage direction. Today, her work is featured in international exhibitions, and the central theme of her work remains the nature of the human condition.
Psychological realism
Ksenia Dolinskaya’s art centers on the human being and their inner life: desire, fear, vulnerability, power, tenderness, and the capacity for change. The artist is interested in states that are difficult to express in words but can be made visible through imagery.
She gives them precise, convincing form. The body, gaze, gesture, fabric, and objects become participants in a scene in which inner experience acquires a physical presence. Mythological and archetypal images allow her to speak of what remains within a person regardless of time.
Psychological realism in her practice is the authenticity of experience, embodied in a carefully constructed image. Each new series reveals a different side of this exploration.
Painting and graphics
Painting and graphics are two distinct areas of Ksenia Dolinskaya’s practice, each with its own plasticity and emotional resonance.
In painting, the artist employs the multi-layered techniques of the old masters. She creates performances with real models and props, building relationships between figure, object, and space. Successive layers of paint allow her to achieve depth of color, physicality, and precision of detail.
In graphics, Dolinskaya uses black ink on handmade Italian paper, and in some works, gold. Here, the image is articulated through line, stain, rhythm, and the empty space of the page. Despite the differences in visual languages, both approaches share a focus on the inner state and dramaturgy of human presence.