Meet Galina Livit
The Artist & Her Vision
Galina Livit is a Michigan-based contemporary artist working in textural abstraction, merging expressive surfaces with atmospheric landscape elements. Her work explores the tension between structure and fluidity, light and rupture.
Born and raised in the former Soviet Union and now based in Michigan, Livit's creative journey has been largely self-directed, shaped by a lifelong curiosity about both analytical and artistic forms of expression. Her sensibility was formed early — by literature, music, and a culture where art carries weight, speaking when other means fail. A self-taught artist, she balances a long-standing career in technology with an evolving studio practice. Her unconventional path informs work that maintains a continuous dialogue between intuition and intention.
Beneath the physical textures lies a recurring interest in transformation—how light emerges through disruption, and how memory, experience, and emotion leave traces on the landscapes within us.
The Practice
Livit’s paintings are built in layers, using acrylics combined with graphite, raw pigments, inks, pastels, oil & cold wax, and textural compounds. Her surfaces are tactile and dimensional—at times fractured, at times luminous—creating compositions with a sense of geological depth.
Rather than depicting specific locations, her work evokes emotional terrains—suggestions of horizons, shifting skies, water, and landforms that emerge and dissolve within the same space. Texture plays an active role, shaping movement and guiding the viewer through areas of tension, erosion, and illumination.
Her paintings are known for their immersive quality and strong physical presence, drawing viewers in through texture before revealing more subtle emotional layers. Each work is part of an ongoing exploration, where process and material remain central to the outcome.
Today, her work is exhibited in Michigan galleries and held in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel. While her professional career has been rooted in technology, the studio remains a place of discovery—a space where structure and intuition, analysis and emotion, continually inform one another.
Exhibitions
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July - August 2026 — Chris Nordin Studios Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
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May 2026 — Intermingled Currents, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI
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2023 – Present — Group Exhibitions, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI
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December 2024 — Exhibiting Artist, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
