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Kristina Dubrovskaia

Visual artist and art educator exploring color, the human body, and natural forms through oil painting and hands-on art education.

Studio Practice & Art Education

My studio practice explores color through the human body and natural forms. I approach the body as a living, organic structure, studying its curves, folds, gestures, and relationship to the surrounding space. Shells, water, aquatic plants, and other natural structures extend this investigation through patterns of growth, movement, repetition, and change.

Working primarily in oil, I move between close observation and abstraction. I often use limited or unexpected palettes to explore how shifts in hue, temperature, and value change the perception of volume, light, and mood. Some forms remain recognizable, while others dissolve into color and atmosphere. Drawing, watercolor, ink, pastel, and mixed-media studies also support this process.

As an art educator, I bring the same attention to color, form, and materials into my teaching. Working with children, teens, and adults, including students developing portfolios, continually introduces new ways of seeing and informs my own studio practice.

Biography

Kristina Dubrovskaia is a New York–based visual artist and art educator working across painting, drawing, and mixed media. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design from the University of Wales, following six years of study in design and fine art.

In 2018, Dubrovskaia founded Art Studio “Artist” in Chelyabinsk, where she developed her studio practice while teaching and organizing exhibitions. Her 2021 solo exhibition, Strength: A Woman’s Perspective, at Larisa Depershmidt Art Gallery included a live oil-painting performance centered on the female figure. In 2022, she served as Creative Curator of Art Beat Festival, developing its program, coordinating participating artists, and presenting a live painting performance.

Her work was included in Absolutely Abstract at Las Laguna Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, California, in 2024 and presented through Artsy in 2025. Since relocating to the United States in 2023, she has continued to teach children, teens, and adults in New Jersey and New York. She lives and works in New York.