Anastasiia Skisova
Original paintings exploring the female figure.
Selected Paintings
OIL ON CANVAS
20 × 16 inch, 2025
In her posture lies weariness and despair, yet her body carries unbending resolve.
She knows: pain does not destroy — it transforms into strength
20 × 16 inch
Oil on canvas
In her posture lies a trembling anticipation, in her hands — vulnerability transformed into beauty.
She seems woven from air and light, held gently within a moment of silence.
20 × 16 inch
She’s warm like fire, but something inside feels a little burned.
It’s that kind of morning when the truth shows up without filters.
MY ART WORKS
17.69 × 14.75 in
Oil on canvas
She burned out a little more than she meant to. And still — there’s a pulse in her, flickering in pink.
18 × 24 inch, 2025
Oil on canvas
Her silhouette emerges from half-tones, as if the world is still asleep while she already carries the promise of light.
A body dissolved in morning silence keeps the secret of a new day.
19.69 x 15.75 in
Oil on canvas
A gesture on the edge of stillness, claiming space where there was none.
MY ART WORKS
18 × 24 inch, 2025
Oil on canvas
She is an innocent bride, suspended between fragile youth and the mystery to come.
Her silence is as sheer as a veil, and in her eyes trembles the shiver of anticipation.
19.69 x 15.75 in
Oil on canvas
It’s the pause between “I’ve got this” and “I’m tired.”
And it feels more real than everything that came before it.
14 × 11 inch, 2025
Oil on canvas
Feelings close her eyes, but open her inner vision.
Large-Format Paintings
48 × 60 in, 2025
Oil on canvas
She laughs to herself: if this is danger, let it crawl. She’s already above it.
48 × 60 in, 2024
Oil on canvas
Two “predators” by her side, but there’s no trace of fear on her.
48 x 60 inch, 2025
Oil on canvas
Sometimes we are so focused on moving toward the light that we fail to notice danger passing right beside us.
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36 × 48 in, 2024
Oil on canvas
She didn’t choose this company. She just chose not to drown in it
14 × 10 in, 2025
Oil on canvas
She’s been through her small battle, took a breath, and kept standing. Nothing heroic, just honesty
36 × 48 in, 2024
Oil on canvas
Flight doesn’t always need wings. The only rule is not opening your eyes too soon.
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Artist Statement
The female figure in the history of painting has long existed in relation to the external gaze, constructed as an object for reading, interpretation, and appropriation. In the twentieth century, this model began to break down. My practice continues this shift while redirecting its vector. I approach the female figure as a form of inner sovereignty, inaccessible to appropriation by the gaze. I work with the nude as a form stripped of social codes. Clothing introduces context, status, and narrative. Nudity removes these structures and leaves the figure in a state of bodily autonomy. In my paintings, the figure does not engage, does not offer itself for interpretation, and does not produce an emotional response. It is not oriented toward the expectations of the viewer. My method is shaped by an architectural background. I treat the body as a construction, where posture and internal tension assemble the form. Space interacts with the figure and reinforces its autonomy. Meaning is not fixed and cannot be reduced to a single reading. The viewer is confronted not with an image, but with the limits of their own gaze.
MY BIO
Anastasiia Skisova is a contemporary artist working primarily in painting. Born in Russia, she received a classical art education and later graduated from the Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, where she studied architecture and spatial design. She currently lives and works in Miami, USA. Architectural thinking has become an essential part of her artistic language, expressed through attention to compositional structure, rhythm, light, and the relationship between the body and surrounding space. Skisova's practice is centered around the female figure, approached as an autonomous form that resists possession by the gaze. Nudity in her works is stripped of familiar social coding and removed from traditional modes of display and interpretation, becoming a self-sufficient visual structure. Working primarily in oil, the artist combines figuration with fragmented form, rapid gesture, and painterly incompleteness. Her paintings explore inner distance, bodily memory, emotional tension, and the condition of presence. Collectors of Anastasiia Skisova's works are located across the United States, Europe, and Russia.
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