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Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy /Екатерина Василенко Сирси is a Russian*-born American* figurative and portrait painter, living and working in San Diego, California.
Her drawings and oil paintings respect the technique and style of old masters of Renaissance* and baroque period of Italian*, Flemish, French* and Russian* masters.
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She is sympathetic to the international Kitsch movement that in words of Kaikkonen -student of Odd Nerdrum*- "provides an alternative to the institutionalized mainstream contemporary art".
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