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Artist Statement
From a vocabulary of images, I compile a visual sensibility and a pictorial world — a habitat for my female protagonists and their various accoutrements. The sources can range from Russian Constructivism, 60’s fashion advertising and vintage book covers, to personal fashion sense and Etruscan wall painting. I sense a thread in these disparate visual worlds. Instead of looking at an image that inspires me directly, I often try to replicate it from memory, allowing a distortion to enter into the process. This way the pictorial is reconfigured and the strange can be carved out of the familiar.
The events in my paintings are not narrative but visual and sometimes aspire to an unspoken punch line. The figure functions as the vessel and the space onto which an often wise-cracking tableau occurs. The inanimate objects become characters that interact within a framework of a painted reality. Glimpses of realistic illusion quickly fade into a self-reflexive overall flatness.
From a vocabulary of images, I compile a visual sensibility and a pictorial world — a habitat for my female protagonists and their various accoutrements. The sources can range from Russian Constructivism, 60’s fashion advertising and vintage book covers, to personal fashion sense and Etruscan wall painting. I sense a thread in these disparate visual worlds. Instead of looking at an image that inspires me directly, I often try to replicate it from memory, allowing a distortion to enter into the process. This way the pictorial is reconfigured and the strange can be carved out of the familiar.
The events in my paintings are not narrative but visual and sometimes aspire to an unspoken punch line. The figure functions as the vessel and the space onto which an often wise-cracking tableau occurs. The inanimate objects become characters that interact within a framework of a painted reality. Glimpses of realistic illusion quickly fade into a self-reflexive overall flatness.
CV
b. 1978; Riga, Latvia
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATON
2006 M.F.A Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001 B.F.A Painting, Cooper Union, New York, NY
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2011
(Upcoming) solo exhibition; Salon 94, New York, NY
Magic Hand; ART BLOG ART BLOG, New York, NY
Ella Kruglyanskaya & Benjamin Senior; James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY
White Columns Benefit Exhibition; White Columns, New York, NY
Ella Kruglyanskaya; White Room, White Columns, New York, NY
2010
Painting and Sculpture; Foundation for Contemporary Art Benefit Exhibition; Lehman Maupin, New York, NY
Artists in Residence exhibition; Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2007
Something Swarming Something; Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY
2006
MFA Thesis Exhibition; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
RESIDENCY
2009-10 Henry Street Settlement/ Abrons Art Center, Artist in Residence studio program, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rosenberg, Karen, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 07/21/2011
Smith, Roberta, “Last Chance”, The New York Times, 03/03/2011
b. 1978; Riga, Latvia
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATON
2006 M.F.A Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001 B.F.A Painting, Cooper Union, New York, NY
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2011
(Upcoming) solo exhibition; Salon 94, New York, NY
Magic Hand; ART BLOG ART BLOG, New York, NY
Ella Kruglyanskaya & Benjamin Senior; James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY
White Columns Benefit Exhibition; White Columns, New York, NY
Ella Kruglyanskaya; White Room, White Columns, New York, NY
2010
Painting and Sculpture; Foundation for Contemporary Art Benefit Exhibition; Lehman Maupin, New York, NY
Artists in Residence exhibition; Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2007
Something Swarming Something; Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY
2006
MFA Thesis Exhibition; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
RESIDENCY
2009-10 Henry Street Settlement/ Abrons Art Center, Artist in Residence studio program, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rosenberg, Karen, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 07/21/2011
Smith, Roberta, “Last Chance”, The New York Times, 03/03/2011
Fruit Picnic/ 2011 Oil on linen/ 56x74 in
Tug O’War/ 2010 Oil on canvas/ 56x74 in
Paint Spill 1/ 2011 Oil on linen mounted on shaped panel/ approx. 56x72 in
Paint Spill 2/ 2011 Oil on linen mounted on shaped panel/ approx. 60x74 in
Swordfish Picnic for Three/ 2011 Oil on linen mounted on shaped panel/ approx. 110x86 in
French Bathers/ 2011 Egg tempera on panel/ 22x28 in
Untitled/ 2011Flashe, acrylic, and oil bar on chipboard/ 18x23 in
Untitled/ 2011 Flashe, acrylic, oil and oil bar on canvas/ 42x60in
Monsterface/ 2011 Egg tempera on panel/ 12x16in
Monsterface Sunbathers/ 2011 2011 Egg tempera on panel/ 24x32in
Untitled (Fruit)/2010/ Oil on linen on board/ 18x24
Yoga/ 2010/ Egg tempera on panel/ 48x40 in
Untitled/ 2011 Oil on linen/ 56x74 in
Big Hand/ 2011 Oil on linen/ 56x74 in
Big Banana/ 2010/ Oil on canvas/ 48x78 in
Cat Fight/ 2010/ Oil on canvas/ 60x78 in
Monster Faces/ 2010/ Egg tempera on panel/ 24x32 in
Monster Faces II/ 2010/ Egg tempera on panel/ 24x32 in
Monster Faces III/ 2011/ Egg tempera on panel/ 24x32 in
Untitled/ 2010 Oil on canvas 36x42 in