Join us in welcoming the accomplished artist, Katya Kompanesyets, our first featured Artist of 2016. The Opening Reception for Paintings by Katya, will be held on Sunday, January 3, 2016, 12 Noon to 1:30 pm, at UU Santa Monica. 

 

The show is free and will run through Sunday, January 31st. It is open to the public on Sundays from 9am – 1pm and on weekdays by appointment. All works are for sale. 

 

We are pleased to welcome Kompaneyets whose deep artistic roots reach back to the 1960s in Moscow, where she graduated from the Moscow Fine Arts School in 1964 and from the Moscow Textile University in 1969 with a Masters Degree in Design and Decorative Arts. Before leaving Russia for Southern California over 30 years ago, some of her costume designs were banned in Russia. Her active career in California includes: designing and painting large murals in homes throughout southern California, teaching art in her studio and at many different venues, helping people expand their art collections, designing and creating sets and costumes for schools, consulting for USC concerning period costumes from Tolstoy’s time, publishing articles about art, creating book covers, painting, and showings of her work in galleries.

 

Kampaneyets will be bring to the show her framed oil paintings and some water colors in sleeves. She has focused her paintings on still lifes, portraitures, nudes, and landscapes. Her water colors are well executed. They all have good composition and seem sure of themselves. Her paintings are in many private collections in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Still Life 1 Carmel, San Francisco, New York and Boston. Her work includes commissioned paintings as well as helping clients to build art collections, with an emphasis on collecting works of historical and contemporary California artists. 

 

Contact Nancy at assistant@uusm.org, 310-829-5436 ext. 102 for info or appointments.

 

Contact Beverly at balison@aol.com, for further info about the artist or about exhibiting on the Art Wall at UU Santa Monica.

 

UU Santa Monica; 1260 18th Street (corner of 18th and Arizona); Santa Monica 90404 

On Sundays look for signs to free parking at 1311 16th Street, the UCLA Hospital structure just south Arizona. Handicapped parking is available behind the church.