
Yulia Bas, "I don't need the rest"
Oil and mixed media on canvas
77" x 47"
Yulia Bas, "Still Lie"
Oil and mixed media on canvas
76" x 57.5"
Yulia Bas, "Let the author speak"
Oil and mixed media on canvas
78" x 62"
Yulia Bas, "ABI Study"
Oil on Wood
16" x 13"
Yulia Bas, "Don't be too serious"
Oil on canvas
47" x 47"
Yulia Bas, "Elementary"
Oil and mixed media on wooden panel
19" x 15"
Yulia Bas, "Anonymous #7"
Oil and cork shavings collages on wooden panel
13" x 10"
Yulia Bas, "BEGINNING"
Oil and mixed media on wooden panel
12.25" x 16"
Yulia Bas, "WANDER"
Oil and mixed media on wooden panel
13.5" x 12" x 1.5"
Yulia Bas, "Fragments #1"
Oil on canvas
77" x 69"
Yulia Bas, "ALLEGORY"
Oil and mixed media on canvas
31.5" x 39"
Yulia Bas, "Playing the Saint"
Oil and mixed media on wooden panel
13" x 15.75"
Yulia Bas, "Sisters MIGHT"
Oil and mixed media on canvas
75" x 110"
Yulia Bas, "Sisters COMPASSION"
Oil and mixed media on canvas
75" x 110"
Yulia Bas, "Anonymous #2"
Oil and cork on wooden panel
13" x 16"
Yulia Bas, "Anonymous #5"
Oil and acrylic on wooden panel
13" x 16"
Yulia Bas, "TRUE"
Oil and acrylic on canvas
67" x 55"
Yulia Bas, "No Rush" SOLD
Oil and mixed media on canvas
55" x 47"
Yulia Bas, "Goofy You" SOLD
Oil and mixed media on canvas
76.5" x 62.5"
Yulia Bas, "When I dare to listen" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
79" x 47"
Yulia Bas, "ADJUST" SOLD
Oil and paper collage on canvas
39" x 31.5"
Yulia Bas, "WHAT IS FREEDOM" SOLD
Oil and paper collage on wooden panel
23.5" x 31.5"
Yulia Bas, "BETWEEN US" SOLD
Oil and cork collage on wooden panel
39.5" x 31.5"
Yulia Bas, "INSIDE" SOLD
Oil and cork collage on wooden panel
21" x 25.5"
Yulia Bas, "A Colossal Effort to Rest" SOLD
Oil on canvas
78" x 113"
Yulia Bas, "The Way I Learn" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
71" x 63"
Yulia Bas, "Ow Hello Body!" SOLD
Oil and mixed media on canvas
96" x 76"
Yulia Bas, "COME BACK" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
67" x 55"
Yulia Bas, "Nova III" SOLD
Oil on canvas
67" x 55"
Yulia Bas, "Fragments #2" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
77" x 67"
Yulia Bas, "SHELL" SOLD
Oil and mixed media on wooden panel
12" x 13.5"
Yulia Bas, "MY SPACE" SOLD
Oil and cork collage on wooden panel
31.5" x 39"
Yulia Bas, "When" SOLD
Oil on canvas
55" x 47"
Yulia Bas, "Too Much Drama" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
77" x 69"
Yulia Bas, "Documentary" SOLD
Oil and mixed media on canvas
79" x 65"
Yulia Bas, "Eva" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
71" x 63"
Yulia Bas, "Home" SOLD
Oil and gesso on wood
31.5" x 23.5"
Yulia Bas, "Tale" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on wood
13" x 9.5"
Yulia Bas, "Meanwhile" SOLD
Oil on canvas
47" x 39"
Yulia Bas, "About Me" SOLD
Oil on canvas
39" x 31"
Yulia Bas, "Ignorance" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
71" x 67"
Yulia Bas, "Nova I" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
67" x 55"
Yulia Bas, "Work In Progress" SOLD
Oil and acrylic on canvas
67" x 55"
Yulia Bas, "Reflection" SOLD
Oil on canvas
55" x 47"
Yulia Bas "Awareness" SOLD
Oil on canvas
79" x 79"
Yulia Bas, "Open" SOLD
Oil and acrylic with gesso on canvas
55" x 47"
Yulia Bas, "Now" SOLD
Oil and acrylic with gesso on canvas
67" x 55"
Yulia Bas, "My Fault" SOLD
Oil and acrylic with gesso on canvas
67" x 55"
Yulia Bas, "Still Lie" SOLD
Oil and mixed media on canvas
76" x 57.5"
Yulia Bas, "Oneself" SOLD
Oil and acrylic with gesso on canvas
39" x 31"
Yulia Bas (Lobanov) is an emerging Russian artist whose powerful portraits reflect transformation, evolution and the beauty of imperfection. In each painting, empty spaces become eloquent, as faces remain unfinished and details are obscured. Yulia's brush strokes and empty spaces pose questions on identity, change, and self-doubt. Working with gesso, crushed paper, acrylics and oils, her brushwork is both lifelike and abstract, rude in its texture and vivid in its accuracy. Each detail carries her own anxieties as well as that of her subject; shadows suggesting traumas, tension, and misconceptions, the light indicating clarity, infinite possibilities, power and peace.
For Yulia, portraiture is a direct reflection of personality – she makes connections between background texture and subconscious settings. Detailed realism coexists with sketchy, bold brush strokes and unapologetic white spots of background. Yulia's portraits capture the subjects in a specific moment, aware that they will never be the same person as in that moment ever again. Just as she will never be the same artist again. As we experience and are influenced by changes around us and inside us, our identity evolves and the shadows and light, both real and imagined, adjust too.
Born in Moscow in 1986, Yulia's eclectic artistic journey began at a very early age. From studying with a teacher dedicated to old school academicism as a child, she went on to complete a degree in interior design and architecture. Over the past decade, she has established a successful yacht design studio with her partner, relocating to Barcelona and immersing herself in this unique leviathan realm. Every step and outlet has seen her become more fascinated with the human condition, appreciate the capacity and fragility of each of her mediums – paint and pencil, space and light – and learn more about herself. After a decade dedicated to yacht design, Yulia felt a longing to return to the canvas once again. In many ways as an artist reborn, her work harnesses her feelings of vulnerability, her acute awareness of her shifting identity. As she undergoes a metamorphosis of self, so too do her subjects through her honest, incomplete rendering.
There is a beautiful relationship between erasure and emotion in your paintings. Somewhat paradoxically, it is in part through their absences that the subjects speak—it is because of their erasures that they feel represented in whole. How do you come to the compositional ideas in these emotional renderings? Do you know what will be obscured or absent before you begin?
I build my work bit by bit led by my intuition, choosing areas I am drawn to that reflect a specific emotion that I want to convey from a reference. All the rest may disappear. I never know from the beginning how my work will turn out. I tend to keep my paintings beautiful throughout every step of the process, allowing me to stop at any stage. At the end, the blank parts may “speak” even stronger than the perfectly rendered ones, this puzzled emotional perception interests me hugely.