MIDNIGHT DREAM

2024 - 2025

MIDNIGHT DREAM explores the space between sleep and waking, where reality softens and emotions surface without logic. The series captures fragmented visions, quiet tension, and the feeling of drifting through an inner landscape.

Oil painting Craving (2024) by contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring an expressive face emerging from bold red, orange, green, and dark brushstrokes.

Passion (2024), original oil on canvas by Los Angeles artist Taia Akulova, featuring rich crimson, magenta, and red brushstrokes with layered textures.

Midnight Swim, original oil painting by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring expressive layers of black, red, purple, pink, and blue brushstrokes.

Vulnerability (2024), original oil painting on canvas by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, exploring emotional openness, strength, and vulnerability.

original oil painting on canvas by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, exploring emotional openness, strength, and vulnerability.

original oil painting on canvas by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, exploring emotional openness, strength, and vulnerability.

original oil painting on canvas by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, exploring emotional openness, strength, and vulnerability.

Burning (2024), original oil painting by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, depicting a woman's face through expressive black, purple, red, and golden brushstrokes.

Flaming (2024), original oil painting by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, depicting a woman's face through expressive black, purple, red, and golden brushstrokes.

Alien, original oil painting by contemporary artist Taia Akulova, depicting a blue-gray face with textured white vertical brushstrokes against a dark background.

Vanishing (2024), original oil painting by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring layered blue tones and expressive textured brushstrokes.

Dizzi (2024), original oil painting by contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring dynamic purple, blue, pink, and green brushstrokes in an expressive abstract composition.

Abstract expressionist painting with textured purple, blue, pink, red, and yellow brushstrokes

Abstract expressionist painting with bold red, blue, black, white, and gold brushstrokes on canvas

Burning Heart (2024), original abstract oil painting by contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring intense red, burgundy, purple, and blue textured brushstrokes. Part of the Escape / Burning Heart diptych.

Oil painting Craving (2024) by contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring an expressive face emerging from bold red, orange, green, and dark brushstrokes.

Passion (2024), original oil on canvas by Los Angeles artist Taia Akulova, featuring rich crimson, magenta, and red brushstrokes with layered textures.

Midnight Swim, original oil painting by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring expressive layers of black, red, purple, pink, and blue brushstrokes.

Vulnerability (2024), original oil painting on canvas by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, exploring emotional openness, strength, and vulnerability.

Vibrant abstract oil painting with bold red, blue, purple, green, and pink impasto brushstrokes.

Abstract expressionist painting with layered pink, purple, blue, and black brushstrokes

Vibrant abstract painting with layered purple, magenta, blue, gold, and red brushstrokes

Abstract expressionist painting with layered pink, blue, green, purple, and black brushstrokes

Vibrant abstract painting featuring layered purple, blue, pink, red, and yellow brushstrokes.

Abstract impasto painting with vivid blue, red, orange, white, yellow, and green brushstrokes on a dark background

Burning Heart (2024), original abstract oil painting by contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring intense red, burgundy, purple, and blue textured brushstrokes. Part of the Escape / Burning Heart diptych.

Vanishing (2024), original oil painting by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, featuring layered blue tones and expressive textured brushstrokes.

Flaming (2024) by Taia Akulova, a textured oil portrait featuring a woman's face partially obscured by sweeping yellow, white, purple, and blue brushstrokes.

Burning (2024), original oil painting by Los Angeles contemporary artist Taia Akulova, depicting a woman's face through expressive black, purple, red, and golden brushstrokes.

Alien, original oil painting by contemporary artist Taia Akulova, depicting a blue-gray face with textured white vertical brushstrokes against a dark background.

MIDNIGHT DREAM

2024 - 2025

MIDNIGHT DREAM explores the shifting space between reality and imagination. Blurred figures and dreamlike forms reflect moments of uncertainty, introspection, and the feeling of being suspended between what is familiar and what is still unknown.

Guests mingle with drinks at an art gallery exhibition featuring colorful abstract paintings.

Artist's studio with two colorful abstract paintings, art supplies, and a stool.

Two colorful abstract paintings displayed in an artist’s studio beside paintbrushes, paint tubes, and palettes.

Tattooed woman wearing a black top and name badge stands in front of two colorful abstract paintings at an art exhibition.

Group of artists and attendees posing in front of colorful abstract paintings at an art exhibition

Four smiling people pose together in an art gallery surrounded by colorful abstract paintings.

Two smiling women pose for a selfie in front of colorful abstract paintings.

Two people pose with a large abstract painting inside a gym beneath a neon LAB sign.

Contemporary artist Taia Akulova with a guest at a group exhibition at Pershing Art Space in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), 2024, standing in front of her original paintings.

Artist in a white cap standing beside large colorful abstract paintings in a gallery or studio.

Man in a white cap and green jacket standing beside colorful abstract paintings in an art gallery.

Colorful abstract painting in red, blue, green, orange, and yellow hanging above a dark olive armchair

Vibrant abstract painting with thick multicolored brushstrokes in red, orange, blue, green, yellow, and purple.