Selina Narovlansky

551 Tremont Street, Studio #407 — Boston Center for the Arts

Selina Narovlansky graduated from Moscow Stroganov State Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in Decorative Arts, specializing in textiles. In Russia, she worked as an artist/designer in the renowned Senesh Experimental Design Studio, creating industrial exhibitions and spatial environments with the National Artist’s Fund. Her designs have been manufactured at Yakovlevsky Jacquard Mill and she has a theater curtain on permanent installation in the Pereslavl-Zalessky Auditorium.

Arriving mid-career in the USA, Selina established her studio at the Boston Center for the Arts and participated in the New England Artists Congresses as a recipient of grants from Massachusetts Cultural Council.She continues to approach fiber art from a variety of directions: collage, large scale wall panels, fiber sculptures, and wearable art designs.

Throughout the last two decades Selina Narovlansky has developed an original technique of painting on fabric, a unique process where textile dyes mixed with thickener are applied immediately to the entire fabric surface.The color schemes and patterns generated by this technique result in abstracted landscape and seascape compositions for the wall and for the body. Her paintings are like modern abstract art superimposed on the centuries old tradition of painting on silk. 

Narovlansky’s aligned technique of painting on waxed rice paper is often inspired by the images of the larger areas of earth viewed from above. Both techniques are spontaneous and allow her wide latitude to experiment with color.