Lyuba Titovets Works

Lyuba Titovets

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Lyuba Titovets was born and educated in St. Petersburg, Russia. At five years old she took her first private art classes. She received a Master of Fine Arts from St. Petersburg State University. While in St. Petersburg, her accomplishments included teaching art, illustrating books, and working as the chief designer for Theatre “Mask”. Her final position was an Art Historian for the newly established Department of History of Culture at St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University.

Since coming to the United States in 1992, she has had great success and recognition. With invitations to National and International juried exhibitions and numerous group and solo shows in galleries throughout the U.S, Lyuba’s career soared.  She is the recipient of numerous awards and has had 17 solo exhibitions and many more together with her husband Aleksander. Lyuba illustrated several books, created posters for such events as Border Folk Festival, Siglo De Oro, El Paso Symphony, El Paso opera, Alzheimer association, KCOS and many others. She also painted three-dimensional objects for UTEP and other organizations. Her art has been published in books including “Sketch Confidential: Secrets of Master Artists” and “Desert Modern and Beyond” and magazines “Art of the West”, “American Art Collector”, “Southwest Art “and many others.

Lyuba has had her work shown in a world exhibition in Westminster Abby, London, England, as well as in International Acrylic Painters’ Society Competition and at the Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society of America, where she won a Creative Achievement award. At the International Miniature Exhibit in Clearwater, Florida, Lyuba won Best of Show, which she also won in the International Sun Bowl competition. She has been a guest artist at the Great American Artists’ Exhibit in Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Texas Masters in Fredericksburg, Texas. Her painting “Celebration” was on the cover of “ART in US Embassies program” catalog. Her name is included in the Archive of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Lyuba was a constant winner of EPAA Arts International for almost a decade at the end of the XX century, bringing the quality and level of the show to an unprecedented level.

Lyuba’s work can be seen in art galleries in Carmel, California; Ruidoso, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas;  Charleston, South Carolina, as well as in the studio in El Paso. Lyuba’s work can be found in public and private collections in the US, Europe, Mexico and Canada. The list of collections includes the headquarters of National Parks in Denver, Colorado, the largest private collection of Western Art in Kentucky and Yevtushenko Museum, Peredelkino, Russia.

Lyuba’s lyrical, symbolic and whimsical works combine wit, native charm and skills; bringing a unique experience to anybody who is interested in art. Her name translated means “Love” and is a feeling clearly represented in her images.

“I hope my paintings will take you away from your worries and will bring some good clear thoughts or dreams to you, or at least a smile. Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for letting me share my little world with you."