BIOGRAPHY

Born in Russia, Lyuba Nesteroff attended the Mtsensky Children’s Art School, a primary school for gifted children. She obtained her BA from the College of Art at Oryel State University, a member of Association of the Classical Universities of Russia. Following graduation, she joined the Magadan Music and Drama Theatre as a set design artist.


Moving to Tallinn, Estonia in 1981, Lyuba worked as an instructor of Art History at the Tallinn Linnamae Russian Lyceum, a leading educational institution in Estonia. 


In 1997, Lyuba emigrated to the United States. Settling in the Bay Area, she attended CCSF studying Multimedia and Design.


With keen artistic sensibilities rooted in classical training, Lyuba has evolved into an award-winning designer with a proven record of driving business for diverse industries. She is currently employed by an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.


While her professional life has taken a different path, as time permits Lyuba continues to express herself in oil on canvas and pastel paintings.

EXHIBITIONS

1993, Vaal Gallery, Estonia

1994, Gallery 68, Denmark Copenhagen

1996, Vaal Gallery, Estonia

1989 -1997, Private exhibitions, Estonia


Following are excerpts taken from art critics’ reviews, translated from the original Estonian and Russian.

PEACE IN A HANDFUL OF EARTH

Lyuba Nesteroff received excellent training in the school of traditional realistic painting. In the 70-80s she painted landscapes, delicate in color, lyrical in mood, still lifes, and portraits from nature.

In the 80s, a sharp turn is outlined in her worldview and work, which can at once be considered both unexpected and very logical. Now living in Estonia, a new artistic environment for her, Nesteroff sensed the context of Estonian art and its connection with the latest trends in contemporary world art, which provided enormous opportunities for the transfer of abstract-metaphysical ideas about the world. At the same time, she plunged into the Christian faith and theological knowledge. The revelations that followed suggested to her a new path of creative disclosure, adequate to these experiences.


Nesteroff began to work with feverish speed and dedication. Delicately but persistently, within the framework of he­­r concept, Nesteroff gives us an idea of ​​landmarks about the creator and the created, the single and the general, the particular and the universal.


The artist masters the technique of pastel, extracting all its advantages from this material. This technique allows her to work very quickly, spontaneously, impulsively.  It gives her the opportunity to fix the result of intuitive cognition in small-format things. 


Drawing thin colored lines on the surface of a paper sheet, endlessly varying them in tone and configuration, she sets traps for a straightforward look, offers an exciting game: wander and get lost in an ornate, seething stream of forms and colors. In front of the clean surface of the painting, the artist cannot always form the idea with which she is driven. In the process of work, in the creative element that overwhelmed her, she becomes a novice, unmistakably guided by her inspiration and subconsciousness, discovering a piece of infinite truth.

Ninel Ziterova, Art Critic


A SPY WHO IS NOT AFRAID OF BEAUTY AND MYSTERY 

This is Lyuba Nesteroff – an artist who has lived in Tallinn for 15 years.  Her exhibition of paintings and pastels in the gallery Vaal is well received by the audience.


She has worked out a specific figurative style, characteristic of the Russian school of painting, it is temperamental colored gold. The traditions of Russian icon painting can be seen in the figures depicted in her paintings, and religiosity is also noticeable. The spies have their own place on earth, thought Eha Komissarov, the art historian. Nesteroff dares to say that the world is beautiful, and that it is fabulous and mysterious.


In In the context of the West, the background is feminism and nihilism. At the same time, beautiful does not mean trouble-free; in every Nesteroff painting there is a question, a problem. Nesteroff is a quiet traveler who watches the world from afar. Although the titles of several works refer to a specific place. there is no decisive significance in space-time — it is only a conditional marking of a question to which both the artist and the viewer seek an answer.


Nesteroff’s pastels were shown in Gallery 68 in Copenhagen; her works are found in private collections in Finland, Italy, Sweden, England, Spain, Japan, and the United States.


Monica Sikk, Journalist

 

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS


 

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