IRINA CHELYAPOV

Fine Art

Paintings

Talk to Me, California – Los Angeles, 2023

Mixed Media

About Irina

Contact
310-279-3591
studioic@aol.com
irinasmurals.com

Biography
Irina Chelyapova was born in Moscow, Russia. She displayed exceptional artistic talent at a very young age. At the age of 12, she entered one of the eldest art schools in Moscow, where her teachers were Michael Roginsky, first pop artist of Russian Underground, and Moisey Khazanov, prominent post-impressionist. Irina continued her art education at the Strogonov Academy of Art, the eldest and best art school in Russia, where she earned her Masters Degree in Fine Art and Design. Irina was part of Moscow Noncorfomist Art Movement, which included such names as Grisha Bruskin, Alexander Melamid, Vitaly Komar, Anatoly Zverev, Oscar Rabin, Oleg Celkov, Vasilii Sitnikov, among many others.

In Russia, besides doing fine art, Irina was a successful graphic designer. She created hundreds of logos, posters, letterheads, labels and ads for a large variety of businesses and enterprises. Her paintings and graphic design work were shown at the Biennale International Art Exposition in the Czech Republic, and many other art shows in Russia.

Irina Chelyapov came to the United States in 1989. Here, she began to work with small decorative pieces made for the Pacific Design Center and several Beverly Hills boutiques. Her clients included Elizabeth Taylor, Matt Groening, Candace Bergen, Diane Warren and Priscilla Presley. Irina realized that her art had an amazing decorative quality.
Irina discovered the existential beauty of Los Angeles while driving around the city on the way to paint her murals.

Irina says the following about her art, "Highly influenced by artists like Hopper, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Diebenkorn, I paint multicultural urban Los Angeles with all its contradictions and poetry.
I am trying to blend my classical European artistic background with contemporary conceptual approach. In the LA urban environment I am looking for and finding manifestations of eternal human values, such as love, faith, longing, and the strife for a better life. I try to see real people and their life through the facades of the buildings depicted with much love and connection."

Born in Moscow, Russia (f. USSR)
Moscow's Art School at Kropotkin St.
MA graphic design from Stroganovskaya School of Art and Design, Moscow.
Graphic Design Workshop Artist Union USSR
Group Show at Bienalle/ Czechoslovakia, Praha

1989 - Came to USA, Los Angeles
1990-2009 Decorative painted furniture and murals
2008 - 1st Solo show TALK TO ME LA1 Modern Art Gallery
2010 - 2nd Solo show TALK TO ME LA 2 at Modern Art gallery
2012 Group show at Santa Monica Art Studios
2013 group show at Gallery 800, LA
2013 group show at Lark Gallery, WH
2015 Group show at Academia Luciana, Civitella d' Agliano, Italy
2015 Group show at Tiny Griffon Gallery, Nurnberg ,Germany
2016 3rd Solo show at Phantom Gallery Hawthorne, CA
2017 Group show at Blue 7 Gallery, Santa Monica
2018 Group show at Santa Monica Art Studios
2018 2 Group shows at Beyond The Line Gallery, Santa Monica & LA
2018 BG Gallery group show Santa Monica