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Home "Slava" Texas Artists Museum Presents Viatch Protopopov Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 7 PM Viatcheslav Protopopov, whose works will be on display at Texas Artists Museum during March and April, was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan in 1954. His family was from the middle class. His father, Vasili, was a fluvial mechanic, and his mother a nurse. His parents had eight children, five sons, and three daughters. The father died when Slava was six. His mother, Agripina, educated the children on her own while maintaining a garden which provided essentially all the food. When Slava was eight, he met Petr Gavrilenko, a boat captain who eventually became his first art teacher. In 1972, Slava enrolled in the Moscow Stroganoff Art University from which he graduated in 1977. For four years, he worked in the City of Ufa in the union of artists. During those years his works did not see much progress. Later, Slava became an Orthodox Christian, after which, his life totally changed. He started to restore Orthodox Cathedrals including a number of icons and became a professional church painter. He's had many shows in his home city of Semipalatinsk at the Nevzoroff family museum and the Dostoevsky museum. In the U.S., Slava had exhibitions at the Oklahoma City Theater, the OKC library, and in Kingfisher, OK. Collections of his paintings can be found in Russia, New Zealand, Germany, the U.S., and all over the world. Presently, Slava is painting the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Benedict in Del City, Oklahoma where he plans to "transform the white walls of the little church into a colorful, moving pageant of Orthodox Christian liturgy and faith," according to an Oklahoma City interviewer. He lives in Oklahoma City with his family. His works are shown in Greg Matlock's Art Gallery in the Paseo District in Oklahoma City. |