Yelena Epstein-Orlova

Yelena Epstein-Orlova

Moscow, Russia

Artist, calligrapher

Born in Moscow in 1957.

In 1974 she left school and entered the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, the Department of Art and Graphics.

In 1979 she graduated from the university and took up the courses of advanced studies for publisher artists, the studio of art font under the Moscow City Committee of Graphic artists.

In 1980 she started her studies in Irina Guseva’s studio.

Since 1985 she has worked as the leading artist in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Science.

1978 — she participated in the exhibition of Soviet and American student artists.

1985 — solo exhibition in Moscow.

1985 — solo exhibition in Tallinn.

1996 — solo exhibition in Scryabin Museum, Moscow.

“Incarnating sounds with a motion of lines 

Adjoining the lines in verses 

I break the triumph of parting 

And I fuse in an ocean of wondrous words. 

And then a miracle of unity arose, 

There are no centuries, I hear the heart beats. 

Pen and paper, the moment of touch — 

Cicadas ring and the hands shiver, all in letters”.