statement

I am fascinated by what cannot be seen but is so palpably felt. Often when I walk into my apartment, it is as though I encounter everything that has happened in the time that I have lived there. Experiences thicken the air, and are embedded in the walls. My previous apartment, featured in this drawing, at times felt like a sanctuary, while at others an asylum cell. My work explores the hidden life of these interior spaces as well as my own internal life, questioning which is more "real": the physical reality that is seen, or the ineffable that is felt.

My drawings depict interiors in which I have lived, simultaneously creating and breaking the illusion of reality and space. The focal point is often a window or doorway - a portal meant to lead you somewhere. Yet in the drawings this focal point remains the white of the paper: in essence the focal point is "nothing". I think that "nothing" is often the most important thing, and suggest in my work that perhaps the physical is merely a facade, a vessel to an indefinable, incomprehensible depth.

bio

born: 1989, Russia

education

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, BFA, 2014

selected awards/honors

Ruth Katzman Full Scholarship, The League Residency at Vyt, 2014
The August Cook Prize for Excellence in Drawing, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2014
Caldwell Entrance Scholarship Honorable Mention, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2012
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, 2012

selected publications

University of North Carolina, Asheville; Drawing Discourse: 6th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing Catalogue. Asheville, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Asheville
Poets & Artists Magazine; The Power of Drawing. Online publication. Poets & Artists Magazine 2014
North Light Books; Art Journey: Portraits & Figures. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books 2014
Poets & Artists Magazine; Volume 52. Online publication. Poets & Artists Magazine, 2014

selected group shows

Rockland Center for the Arts, Nature Inc., West Nyack, New York, 2015
University of North Carolina Asheville, Drawing Discourse: 6th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Asheville, North Carolina, 2015
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Annual Graduating Student Exhibition ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2014
Gallery 128, Juried Spring Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2014