PAUL YAKIMOVICH

I was born in Maryland but raised in Ohio. I started taking art lessons at a young age, first weekend classes at a local art teacher’s home, then at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. After four years of active duty in the USAF, I attended Youngstown State University, where I graduated in 1995 with a BFA in Painting and Drawing. After living in

Minneapolis, MN, for 19 years, I moved to beautiful Flagstaff, AZ, in 2014. I have a studio at home where I spend as much free time as possible painting and drawing. When I’m not in the studio, the natural beauty of Arizona provides a welcome place to recharge and refocus.

Medium: Painting

Style: Abstraction

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paul yakimovich

Abstract art represents the most authentic expression of the sensory connections I make in life. From music and nature to mundane everyday life experiences, I pull energy from them and direct it to canvas to find some-thing new. The power I draw fills me with the joy of possibilities—the potential of what can be. I paint abstractly to break free from the limits of expected reality. I tap into the energy I pull from all my senses and synthesize it into something new.

Our world is growing more complex and seemingly more aimless each day. From the latest gadgets, which we are connected to somehow, to the daily churn of human drama, we all have to hang on to see where this road will take us. As I have done most of my life, I created an off-ramp to a world unmoored from the daily grind.

My art represents what I’m finding along the way.

Education:

Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio

1995, Youngstown State University, BFA in Painting and Drawing.

Contact

WEBSITE: paulyakart.com

INSTAGRAM: @paulyakart