Lia Chechelashvili

My earlier paintings: “Color symphonies” (oil on canvas)
“Still life” (1988) and “Autumn still life” (1988) are examples of my earlier work. My aim was to create colorful compositions – still lives, landscapes, portraits – with vibrant strokes, interaction of colors and objects sometimes reflected in each other.

White lines on dark background (gouache on cardboard):
“Party” (1990) and “Cube” (1993) are examples of the body of work which I began in 1989.
These are mostly minimalist figurative compositions with white lines on dark background. Human figures, their interaction, linear transformations of the objects, rhythmic play of construction – these are the main features of my work.
Since then linear style has become dominating in my activity, although during all this time I have also been creating colorful compositions with substantive philosophical and psychological content.

Digital (digitally embellished drawings):
My current body of work is a natural continuation of my line-works. In 2000’s, I began applying digital effects to my drawings. The idea was to enrich simple line and make it look more complex, thus through that complexity create a new kind of form.
I call these works “digitally embellished drawings”. This name is due to the way of execution, that is – I scan my drawings and then get the final result using combination of various digital effects.
The examples of this body of work are “Abstract dance” (2006) and “Lovers” (2007).