Lydia Kulesov

Lydia Kulesov passed away peacefully on September 10, 2023. Her kind, compassionate nature, sense of humor, and love for life followed her throughout her life, deeply touching and leaving those she left behind with beautiful loving memories, smiles, and tears of great loss. Lydia was a lover of music, art, beauty and nature.

Lydia was born in Montreal, Canada and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lydia received B.A and M.A. degrees from University of Minnesota, and enjoyed a career teaching design, color theory and textiles. A talented artist well known for her fiber arts installations, she received many commissions. She was an avid photographer and visual artist, having exhibited regionally and nationally. She enjoyed creating art in her NE Mpls. studio.

"In my painting and photography, the dynamic interplay of natural, cultural, historic, spiritual, mystical and human elements inspires me infinitely. Visible and unseen meet between boundary and boundless. Time, space, light, shadow, interpretation, meaning, symbolism, poetry of the fleeting moment -- moving through urban, wild and inner landscapes of infinite elemental variety, touching both intimate and personal, vast and eternal. All unfolding with engaged perceptive imagination -- active in making and experiencing the finished and evolving work. A vital quality captured in mixed media painting or photographic print, radiates out into the space it inhabits, touching others in subtle ways." - Lydia Kulesov

SOURCE - https://www.lydiakulesovart.com/ (Oct 2025)