Lena Snow

Lena Snow is a figurative painter working on paper who has exhibited around the world across Europe and in Asia, the Middle East, as well as North America. Recent exhibitions in Europe include a solo feature at the Kunstraum Gallery in Rastatt, Germany as well as collective shows at Art Park in Rhodes, Greece, Museo Dell' imprenditoria Femminile in Muravera, Italy, Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, PSI World Congress in Geneva, Art Kaunas in Lithuania, Museum of European Modern Art in Barcelona, Stage Gallery in Bonn, Germany, Art Basel with Artbox Gallery in Switzerland, and Galeria Anquins in Germany. She has been published by magazines such as Looker, Quadro, Imirage, and Untold. Lena is also the Editor of Goddessarts Magazine, an international publication dedicated to contemporary art with an online gallery. 

Specifically working on paper, Lena chooses such a surface for the smooth application quality which often leads to paintings with a photographic aesthetic which also simultaneously looks similar to drawings. She specializes in depicting the female form, enhancing femininity and sensuality through hallucinogenic colors which give off a pop art aesthetic but with a refined sense of realism. Lena often paints women with the color of red which makes them dominant in the composition as well as them blending in with the plane along similar colors. Her process entails using a collection of magazine and book clippings as references and then manually drawing her reference onto the paper while finally painting over her rendering. 

Working with numerous sets of series, Lena’s most notable works specifically come from the Nymphs, Orion Girl, and Archaic Goddesses series. In Nymphs, she portrays fragmented colorful landscapes integrating with nudes with the color of the composition penetrating her figures. Works will often entail women blending in with corn fields or illuminated by foliage as if the plants were giving off light. The Orion Girl series entails women being fused with celestial elements such as the moon or streaks of light signifying shooting stars. Archaic Goddesses series portrays females with tribalistic markings and poses against monochromatic backgrounds, enhancing the focus on the markings and figure. 

Phoebe (pictured above) depicts a nude woman in a corn or wheat field. The title derives from Greek mythology, specifically a titaness who represented the moon and was the original owner of the Oracle of Delphi. Phoebe contains a retro New Wave color scheme and reveals an empowerment of a female through her integration with nature and simultaneously revealing and concealing the power of her beauty. 

Lena Snow remains a powerful painter who explores the interaction and relationship between femininity and nature. Her landscapes combine with the figures in order to express a oneness with the environment as well as a composition imbued with hallucinogenic colors and photorealistic aesthetics. Lena’s works can be described as vivid and wild, depicting women in a raw state with the universe both literally and figuratively through symbolism, integrative lucid colors, as well as through ethereal illumination and sensual expression. Through confidence and sense of boldness, Lena Snow advances figurative painting beyond academic and abstract approaches into a realm of liberation and expression through integrated forms in regard to energetic color synergies.

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