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Aleksander & Lybia Titovets

Presented by Gallery Shoal Creek at Gallery Shoal Creek

October 22-November 20, 2010

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In 2007, Sasha [as Aleksander is fondly called] was commissioned to paint First Lady Laura Bush's portrait. In December, the Titovets traveled to Washington, DC for the unveiling at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery where the President and First Lady Laura's portraits will hang.

Jovial and never without words, Sasha was speechless when he was first contacted by the White House. In 1992, the Titovets left their homeland and the city of St. Petersburg where they had each studied and begun their artist pursuits. Sixteen years later, he was invited to the White House to meet the First Lady. It is an extraordinary honor for the Russian who came to this country with twenty-five dollars, painted garage doors when he first arrived in El Paso, and in a few short years achieved national recognition as a artist.

 

Lyuba Titovets was born, raised and educated in St. Petersburg, Russia. There she thrived amidst the cultural richness of the city. She started her private painting lessons at the age of five and at seven she was selected for the Children's Art Club. She went on to receive a BA and MFA in the University’s College of Fine Arts where she worked in stage and costume design and was involved in the development of the art history program at the University's Department of History of Culture. In 1992, she left her homeland and immigrated to the United States and settled in El Paso where she and her husband have raised their two daughters.

As a painter, Lyuba's talent lies in her visual storytelling. Her figurative paintings employ universal themes: people, customs, and social exchange. This same sense of interaction comes to play in her lively still life paintings. The elements she gathers on a table or window ledge work together to tell a story awash in vibrant color. Like her husband, Lyuba's work pays homage to tradition while maintaining a current point of view.