Yulia Pinkusevich

ABOUT

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Yulia Pinkusevich is a visual artist working primarily in drawing, painting and installation. She creates projects and large-scale environments that consider our ecological and social systems. Her work observes land and environment critically, focusing on the psychology of spaces while exploring environments sentient beings inhabit. Using art as a vehicle to merge physical and psychological parallels, she creates art that asks how the structures that surround us define and influence our actions, paths and thoughts.

Her background itself is rooted in change. Born and raised in the USSR at a time of great political upheaval and uncertainty. Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern bloc as refugees, immigrating to New York City. She later relocated to California first to attend college and later graduate school, continuing to reside in the Bay Area to this day. Her work stems from her identity as an immigrant of Siberian & Ukrainian roots. Her art explores dualities and the complex relationships between her blended identity and home countries. Formally, the work is engaged with the direct experience of the viewer through perspectival illusion and spatial perception that play with the subconscious and cognitive understanding of space. By breaking logical perspectives she creates illusions of impossible spaces, non-places or utopias that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic.

ARTIST BIO:

Yulia Pinkusevich is an artist and educator born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern block as refugees, immigrating to New York City. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Yulia has exhibited nationally and internationally including site-specific projects executed in Paris, France and Buenos Aires, Argentina and London, UK.

Yulia’s art is in the public collection of the deYoung Museum, Stanford University, Facebook HQ, Google HQ and the City of Albuquerque amongst others. She has been awarded a 2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum, Gray Area Arts Foundation, Wildlands, Lucid Arts Foundation, Autodesk Pier 9, Recology, Cite des Arts International (Paris), Headlands Center for the Arts, Vashon AIR amongst others. Yulia has lectured at Stanford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the College of Art Media and Design and Mills College of Northeastern University in Oakland California. She lives and creates works on unceeded Ohlone territory. Yulia’s work is represented by Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland.

Artist Talk at Archer Gallery, 2/20/2021

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