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Artistic Biography
The Russian-American Visual artist MAITREYA (Viatcheslav Petrov-Gladky) was born in Moscow in 1954. Studied at an elite Art School, and after that,in 1974 graduated from the Art College. From 1974 to 1975 entered a narrow circle of the artist Vasily Sitnikov's students ("Sitnikov's School"). In the period of 1975-1990 took part in numerous Exhibitions of artists of an "Undeground" movement: in dissidents apartments and then on regular basis at legendary Halls of "Non-Offical Art" in Malaya Gruzinskaya Str.28. During the "Soviet period" Petrov-Gladky, despite the Authorities oppression, became one of the most well-known, in great request and highly paid artist of the USSR. Among the buyers and customers of his paintings there were heads of states, congressmen, ministers, bankers, industrialists.
His pictorial canvases are in the most prestigious private collections and museums in more than 30 countries. In 1989 the artist takes part at an auction of the "Contemporary Soviet Art" in France (Versailles.Palais des Congres), and at the height of his glory emigrates in Germany. From 1990 to 2002 Petrov-Gladky lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main, where he became the founder and leader of a new art style - "Vision Art", and established the Foundation "Voice" where well-known German artists united for joint exhibitions activities. Since 2002 up to the present day the artist, under a new name - Maitreya, has been living in Los Angeles where he opened for visitors his House-Museum "The House of Maitreya" with a permanent exposition of his paintings.In the USA he has been acknowledged as one of outstanding personalities of Contemporary Art. Now he live in Miami (2016).
Painting Technique
The paintings of Maitreya are made with oil colors on specially prepared canvases. The technique varies from so called "dry brush" (inherited from his teacher - Vasily Sitnikov) to the unique, having no analogs, his own technique with filigree surface working-through (made by a needle), which creates an illusion of "Not-Made-By-Hands" and fantastic luminescence effect. Such paintings are multilayered and labor-consuming, therefore some of them (middle-sized) took him up to 6 months for doing.
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