Jana Brike

Jana Brike was born in year 1980 in Riga, Latvia, a small country in the North-East of Europe, which was at that time under Soviet occupation. She has exhibited her work internationally in professional venues since 1996 while being still a young teenager, and has had 11 solo exhibitions and nearly 100 other projects and group exhibitions all over the world.

Her inspirations for work has been as diverse as: folklore fairy tales, children book illustrations, imaginative soviet animation films and supernaturally realistic classical painting; the colorful forbidden rare secret imagery of the western pop culture surrounded by mystical, almost religious tone for the soviet children; the terrifying war and deportation stories that her grandparents and their little brothers and sister witnessed as small children; pompous alienated eerie atmosphere of the catholic church ceremonies in the Latvian countryside, and the breathtakingly beautiful ballet performances in the opera house, where she was taken since the age of two, as well as others - all the bitter-sweetness and irreality of the every day.

The main focus of Jana Brike's art is  the internal space and state of a human soul - dreams, longing, love, pain, growing up and self-discovery

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Jana Brike
Song of Ascension
oil on linen
39 3/8 x  x 27 5/8"
100 x 70 cm.
sold
   
Jana Brike
Shared Dreaming
oil on linen
23 3/4  19 3/4"
60.3 x 50.2 cm.
   
Jana Brike
A Lady and Her Sentinal
oil on linen
24 1/8  19 3/4"
63.1 x 50.2 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Wildwoman
oil on canvas
15 ¾ x 11 ¾"
40 x 30 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Truesight
oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 15"
46.4 x 38 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Queen and Her Servant
oil on canvas
8 x 8"
20.3 x 20.3 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Cleansing Spirit
oil on canvas
8 x 8"
20.3 x 20.3 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Thinking of You
oil on linen
10 x 12"
25.4 x 30.5 cm.
 




Jana Brike

Siren
oil on aluminum
32 x 20"
81.28 x 50.8 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Dragon Queen
oil on aluminum
23 5/8 x 31 1/2"
60 x 80 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Wildflowers on the Edge
of a Cliff
oil on aluminum
23 5/8 x 31 1/2"
60 x 80 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Fairy Tale of a New Dawn
oil on aluminum
23 5/8 x 31 1/2"
60 x 80 cm.
   
Jana Brike
The Garden of Eden
oil on canvas
15 ¾ x 11 ¾"
40 x 30 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Rider and the Beast
pen & ink on paper
16 ½ x 11 ¾"
42 x 30 cm.
   
Jana Brike
River of Styx
pen & ink on paper
11 ¾ x 16 ½"
30 x 42 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Wild Witches with a Broken Bust of Freud
pen & ink on paper
33 ½ x 23 ½"
85 x 60 cm.
   
Jana Brike
Circle of Life
pen & ink on paper
33 ½ x 23 ½"
85 x 60 cm.
   

Jana Brike
Sleepwalking

archival inkjet print
edition of 100
15 x 15" (38 x 38 cm.) image size
19 x 17" (48.26 x 43.2 cm.) paper size

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