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Was born in Ukraine in 1964. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1992. He has lived and worked in the United States since 1996.
" In Valeriy Skrypka's luminous paintings languid, asexual figures engage in enigmatic encounters and rituals that exist beyond the imagination's farthest stretch or belong to a half-forgotten dream (') Ambient light shimmers seductively, surrounding Skrypka's elegantly attenuated forms with an almost palpable glow and transforming the garments draped over their slender, barely articulated forms into the haute couture of a distant but parallel and infinitely enchanting, if also slightly acerbic, universe "
Sam Hunter, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Princeton University
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