Community School of Naples Junior Ella Schulze has a passion for art, and a mission to re-establish beauty as art’s true purpose. Ella interned at East West Fine Art this summer and has written an essay on the fundamental subject: Why Beauty Matters. Leeza Arkhangelskaya, owner of East West Fine Art gallery is a graduate […]
On Monday July 10th, after 23 years in Naples, East West Fine Art owners, Leeza and Olga Arkhangelskaya welcome visitors to their second downtown gallery. East West Fine Art originally named Gallery on Fifth first opened its doors on the iconic Naples 5th Avenue in the year 2000. “We are thrilled to be back on […]
North Naples News, May 2023 By: Leeza Arkhangelskaya Owner, East West Fine Art Laurent Parcelier’s sundrenched paintings can most eloquently be described as poetry and light. Whatever setting surrounds Laurent, it offers him the opportunity to turn this light into the main character of his poems on canvas. If you look closely at his paintings […]
By: Leeza Arkhangelskaya Owner, East West Fine Art North Naples News, April 2023 Issue Victor Colesnicenco, was born in 1968 in Chisinau, Moldova. This Eastern European nation is known for its rich artistic heritage. From childhood, Victor was determined to become an artist. Colesnicenco’s rigorous traditional training has laid the foundation for the creation of […]
By: Leeza Arkhangelskaya, Owner, East West Fine Art North Naples News, March 2023 Can we compare apples to oranges? Is there anything in common between New York and Naples? A prominent Florida-based, Irina Alexandrina, answers positively: we love both of them! According to Alexandrina, cities are like people. They have their own characters, habits, inclinations. […]
By: Leeza Arkhangelskaya, Owner, East West Fine Art North Naples News, February 2023 Hervé Lenouvel consider himself a follower of fauvism – style of painting that flourished in France at the start of the 20th century. His most well-known predecessors were Henry Matisse, Paul Gaugin, Maurice Vlaminck, famous for using pure, vivid colors, vigorously applied […]
In the January 2023 issue of North Naples News By Leeza Arkhangelskaya, Owner of East West Fine Art, and Loli DiSanto, Artist Fort Myers-based artist, Loli DiSanto, leaves a little sparkle everywhere she goes. Her works are an outward expression of her most treasured memories and innermost thoughts. Loli’s remembrances of her early career as […]
The Art of Daria Kropacheva By Leeza Arkhangelskaya, Owner East West Fine Art The ability to create artwork has always been a mysterious force, given only to humans. Yet not all artists are created equal. Certain artists are so historically and culturally important that they are remembered for thousands of years. What is the difference […]
We are down the block from our previous location, across the street from Bravo and the big banyan tree at 9115 Strada Place #5155. The hurricane tried but did not slow us down! We have just opened our doors and we are ready to show you some beautiful, exciting, and uplifting artwork. This winter, we are introducing new […]
By Kathy O’Flinnkathy@swspotlight.com Claire Sayers creates big wide landscapes. Currently she is working on a painting of a very large weeping willow on the water’s edge. “It’s 1.8 meters high and 2.4 meters long. It’s huge. You feel like you can walk straight into it and sit under that willow tree,” she said recently in […]