Larissa Morais

Larissa Morais Biography

Born and raised in Moscow. She has been painting since she was in high school, however her first love was not the brush but the keys of a piano. The replacement of a teacher changed her vision from music and into the world of art. While helping her sister one afternoon with her art homework something sparked her passion for painting and perhaps she stumbled upon her destiny.

Larissa became a graduate from BFA, Moscow Theatrical Arts Institude, and attended the Graduate School of Restoration and conservation where throughout the years she took courses in conservation and restoration of 15th-and 16th-century paintings. “when you restore a painting, you can paint your own strokes into history”.

Larissa influenced by everything in her life. Her brush creates a realistic impression as if it couldn’t possibly be anything but a photo. She views her subject matter as architecture. She sees the subject and presents it in a way that usuallt not seen from the naked eye. Her favorite subject to paint is the human figure from which she brings a reality to the paintings where attention to detail is as strong as attention to the character of the model. In her artwork, we are in the company of beautiful men and women, intimately poised and positioned. All her artwork is conceived from a sketch which she later paints onto a large black canvas. Her delicate technique is with very thin layers of oil paint, while using the black background for shadowing. She captures every detail of her subject. For her it is all there, she just uncovers it.

Her favorite painting is always the one she is working on and the most difficult things is to part with her art. She usually falls in love while painting, and she describes it as ” it is always bittersweet when parting with a painting however it’s always validating”. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “the love of beauty is taste, the creation of beauty is art”. Larissa’s paintings capture true beauty, they are moving and intoxicatin, filled withh such lush imagery and sensuality. Oscar Wilde said, ” every portrait that is painted with feeling is portrait of the artist, not the sitter”. Larissa’s gift of bringing reality to a bare canvas is a true testament of what a great artist truly is.

–  BFA, Moscow, Theatrical Arts Institute

–  Graduate School of Restoration and Conservation

–  Sculpture courses at Serguey Gaydukov Studio

–  Extensive course on Copying Techniques at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

XHIBITIONS

2016 Lahaina Galleries, Lahaina, Hawaii – Group

2015 Lahaina Galleries, Wailea, Hawaii – Group

2014 Lahaina Galleries, Newport Beach, CA – Group

2015 Lahaina Galleries, Maui, Hawaii – Group

2014 Lahaina Galleries, Newport Beach, CA – Group

2012 Larissa Morais Studio, Orange, CA – Solo

2012 The Dina Collection, Beverly Hills, CA – Group

2012 Studio Gallery at Bayside Restaurant, Newport Beach, CA – Solo

2012 Studio Gallery at Bistango Restaurant, Irvine, CA – Group

2011 Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA., Russian White Nights Event

2011 Christopher Morgan Galleries, Palm Desert, CA – Solo

2010 Christopher Morgan Galleries, Palm Desert, CA – Solo

2010 Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA – Group

2009 Miranda Galleries, Laguna Beach, CA – Two Men Show

2009 Christopher Morgan Galleries, Palm Desert, CA – Solo

2008 Fendi Casa, West Hollywood, CA – Group

2008 Christopher Morgan Galleries, Palm Desert, CA – Solo

2008 Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA – Group

2007 Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA – Solo

2007 Evan Lurie Gallery, Carmel, IN – Group

2007 Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Miami, FL – Group

2006 Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA – Solo

2005 SOHO Gallery, Studio City, CA – Group

2005 Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Boca Raton, FL – Solo

2004 SOHO Gallery, Studio City, CA – Solo

2004 RDS Gallery, S. Hampton, FL – Solo

2004 Kent Gallery, Key West, FL – Group

2004 Lurie Fine Art Galleries, Boca Raton, FL – Solo

2003 SOHO Gallery, Studio City, CA – Solo

2003 SOHO Gallery, Studio City, CA – Group

2003 Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA – Group

2002 SOHO Gallery, Studio City, CA – Group

2002 Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA – Solo

2002 Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA – Group

2001 SOHO Gallery, Studio City, CA – Group

1993 Hammer Trade Center, Moscow, Russia – Solo

1993 El Paseo Art Gallery, Mogan, Spain – Group

1992 Church Art Gallery, Fremantle, Australia – Group

1991 Mars Gallery, Moscow, Russia – Solo

1989 Mars Gallery, Moscow, Russia – Solo

1988 Mars Gallery, Moscow, Russia – Group

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

I.Roubal MD, USA

P.Falchi, USA

R.Collins, Brazil

A.Bubion, USA

Christian Galindo, USA

Rosana Francoli, Italy

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Brazilian Embassy, Moscow, Russia

Sovintel, Moscow, Russia

Empresa Zanini, Sao Paulo, Brazil