Anya Feldman is an award-winning contemporary visual artist whose practice centers on figurative painting and modern Cubism, exploring themes of intimacy, identity, and human connection. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Feldman creates emotionally charged compositions that merge fragmented geometry with expressive figuration, positioning her work at the intersection of modernist abstraction and classical narrative painting.

Born in Izhevsk, Russia, Feldman received formal artistic training in Odessa and Leningrad, where she studied fine arts and theatrical costume design, before continuing her education in New York and Rome. This international academic background informs her cross-cultural visual language, combining European art-historical references with contemporary sensibility.

In parallel with her fine-art practice, Feldman built a long-standing career in the fashion industry, serving as a Senior Design Director and Senior Merchandising Director for high-fashion and luxury brands. Her extensive experience in structure, color theory, and visual storytelling continues to shape her painterly approach, resulting in compositions that balance discipline with emotional spontaneity.

Feldman’s current body of work, Amanti e Amici, focuses on lovers, companions, and self-portraits rendered through faceted planes and rich chromatic harmonies. Her figures, often depicted in moments of stillness and closeness, explore the tension between vulnerability and strength, abstraction and recognition. Drawing inspiration from early Renaissance frescoes and 20th-century Cubism, Feldman reinterprets timeless themes of love and intimacy within a contemporary visual framework.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and recognized by juried competitions, including awards at major contemporary art biennales. Through Amanti e Amici, Anya Feldman continues to develop a cohesive, collectible body of work that speaks to universal human experience while remaining deeply personal.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My work is an exploration of human connection through the lens of Cubism, reimagined for a contemporary moment. I paint with oil on canvas, layering fractured planes and bold colors to capture the complexity of intimacy, solitude, love, and friendship. The figures in my work are both abstract and personal: they reflect my own experiences while inviting viewers to see their stories mirrored in geometry and light.

After years in fashion, I return to painting as a way to rebuild my language of expression—one rooted in color, form, and emotional clarity. Each canvas is a meditation on presence: on how we see, how we are seen, and how relationships evolve in the spaces between.