Angela Izrailova
Working across painting, natural material, and resin, Angela Izrailova explores the space between the constructed image and the living world.
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Working across painting, natural material, and resin, Angela Izrailova explores the space between the constructed image and the living world.
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Angela Izrailova’s relationship with art began with formal training in fine art in Russia. After immigrating to New York in 1980, she continued her studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design, earning a degree in Textile Surface Design and later a Master’s degree in Decorative Arts.
Her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Antonio Ratti Textile Center deepened an enduring interest in historic textiles, ornament, pattern, and the craftsmanship of decorative objects. These influences continue to inform her approach to composition, surface, and material today.
After moving to Washington State, the garden gradually became an extension of the studio. Flowers that had once been subjects to observe and paint became material themselves.
Rather than simply depicting a flower, Angela began working with the flower itself, preserving it at its peak and placing it within a composition. Painting, gold leaf, preserved natural material, and transparent layers of resin began to occupy the same surface.
This shift did not replace painting. It expanded its possibilities.
Each work is composed through color, proportion, movement, and balance, bringing painting and preserved flowers into a single visual language.
Angela Izrailova is a professionally trained artist whose work is exhibited in major cities across the United States and held in private collections. Her practice brings together painting, decorative arts, natural material, and resin in a distinctive visual language developed over decades.
Private commissions are created within this practice. A flower, memory, or personal history may become the starting point, but the result is an original work of art, conceived and composed by the artist.
Created as singular works of art, each piece is intended to enter a private collection, to endure, and to be passed from one generation to the next.