Hanna-Oksana Lypa
Hanna-Oksana Lypa (Ukrainian: Ганна-Оксана Ярославівна Липа) (born 18 July 1958) is a Ukrainian decorative and applied arts artist. She was named Merited Painter of Ukraine in 2012 and has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1990.
Born in Verkhnii Luzhok, Lviv Oblast, she graduated in 1982 from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. She has worked in Lviv as a design artist at the Institute of Materials (1982–1989) and at the Experimental Ceramic and Sculptural Factory (1984–2007). From 2002 to 2005 she headed the ceramics section of the Lviv branch of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Lypa began exhibiting her work in 1986 and has had solo shows in Lviv (1989–1990, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007–2009, 2013, 2018), Kraków (1996), and Kyiv (2001–2002, 2012–2013, 2015).
Her art often explores the meaning of life, drawing on ancient sources and world cultural heritage. She creates with majestic forms and reinterpreted symbols, blending them with different art forms. Her wide body of work includes decorative plates, reliefs, plaques, vases, tea and coffee sets (more than 100 types produced for mass introduction), jugs, planters, monumental decorative panels, and garden/park installations. She works with stoneware, porcelain, faience, pottery clay, and chamotte, and also practices batiks, installations, and painted compositions. She decorates both interiors and exteriors.
Her works are held in the National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia, the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery, the Institute of Banking, the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, Poland, and in private collections in Ukraine, Germany, the USA, Austria, Azerbaijan, Poland, and Turkey.
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