Mystical, soulful, and introspective, Alina Shapiro’s mesmerizing works of art provide fascinating insight into the artist’s boundless imagination. Employing a unique and highly innovative process, Shapiro delves deep into her thoughts and allows her mind to wander through a daydream, inventing narratives before applying her medium to the surface. With her imagined characters as a source of inspiration, Shapiro allows the brush or pencil to take over and shape her creations almost subconsciously. This process, in turn, fuels the driving force behind her work: the desire to expose the subjective logic versus the logic of the subject. 
Mimicking her thought, patterns, shapes and colors across the canvas meld, intermingle and combine, evoking a somber and pensive mood. Relying on the human figure as a constant source of subject matter, she works in varying degrees of abstraction to evoke her desired effects.

Areas of color and texture are often fragmented, lending a mosaic-like feel to each work, and further revealing Shapiro’s unusual creative impulses. 
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, the artist is profoundly influenced by the emotional depth of the Russian literary tradition. Alina Shapiro holds a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Pratt Institute and currently lives and works in New York.

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