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'''Yulia Pinkusevich''' (born 1982, [[Kharkiv]], Ukraine) is a visual artist working across various disciplines including painting, drawing, and sculpture. |
'''Yulia Pinkusevich''' (born 1982, [[Kharkiv]], Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born American visual artist working across various disciplines including painting, drawing, and sculpture. Since 2014, she has been the Joan Danforth Professor of Painting at Mills College of Northeastern in Oakland, California.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yulia Pinkusevich |url=https://camd.northeastern.edu/people/yulia-pinkusevich/ |access-date=2024-11-19 |website=College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Based in the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]], California following studies at [[Stanford University]], Pinkusevich is a painter and multi disciplinary artist. Her background itself is rooted in change. Born and raised in the [[Soviet Union|USSR]], her understanding of rules, social status and human achievements were redefinied when moving to the United States in 1990. Learning to adapt and observe carefully and move fluidly through her surroundings became a survival strategy. Due to this personal history, Yulia possesses an amalgam of opposing belief systems which are reflected most clearly in her early architecturally based works. Pinkusevich’s parents were both trained engineers and were raised in the USSR during [[Space Race|the space race]]. The Soviet Union and United States had ushered in the age of space exploration. This Soviet obsession with the unknown, surreal and paranormal is deeply seared into Yulia’s methodology. She was born during the political movement called [[Perestroika]] that precipitated a massive reform and was educated there until second grade. As she recalls quite clearly, “in school we were taught that the Soviets were the first people to go to into space. We were also taught that the Soviet army was responsible for ending WWII.”<ref name=":1" /> When she immigrated to New York City, she started to attend public school in Coney Island. <blockquote> |
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One day, we had a lesson teaching us how America was the first nation to put a man on the moon. The teacher never mentioned the Soviet hero [[Yuri Gagarin]] and the famous dog [[Laika]], who was truly the first earthling in space. This was frustrating and puzzling for me then, in retrospect I believe this was the moment I realized that history is very relative and based on strong cultural biases.<ref name=":1" /> </blockquote>Pinkusevich received her formal training at [[Rutgers University]] (2006) and an MFA degree from Stanford University (2012). Notable collections and commissions include the McMurtry Building at Stanford University, [[Facebook|Meta HQ]], [[Googleplex|Google HQ]], [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|The City of Albuquerque]] and most recently the [[De Young Museum]]. She has been awarded residency grants from Gray Area Arts Foundation, Wildlands, Lucid Arts Foundation, Autodesk Pier 9, Recology (San Francisco), Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris), the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Vashon Artist Residency. The artist currently holds the Joan Danforth Associate Professorshp of Studio Art at [[Mills College at Northeastern University|Mills College]] in Oakland (recently acquired by [[Northeastern University]], Massachusetts).<ref name=":0" /> |
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Pinkusevich creates large-scale multi-faceted installation work that presents viewers with visually immersive environments.<ref>[http://www.yuliapink.com/2013/04/university-of-dubai-magazine-interview-by-richard-labaki/ University of Dubai Interview with Yulia Pinkusevich ]</ref> In an interview, she explains: "Conceptually, my work is concerned with this fragmented vision of architectural layering and perceptions of the built environment. 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 I create illusions of impossible spaces, non-places that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic."<ref |
Pinkusevich creates large-scale multi-faceted installation work that presents viewers with visually immersive environments.<ref>[http://www.yuliapink.com/2013/04/university-of-dubai-magazine-interview-by-richard-labaki/ University of Dubai Interview with Yulia Pinkusevich ]</ref> In an interview, she explains: "Conceptually, my work is concerned with this fragmented vision of architectural layering and perceptions of the built environment. 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 I create illusions of impossible spaces, non-places that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic."<ref>[http://www.recologysf.com/index.php/yulia-pinkusevich Recology SF Artist Profile]</ref> |
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Pinkusevich’s current work has focused on her maternal ancestors who were indigenous Siberians practicing forms of shamanism in the [[Sakha|Sakha region]] of Russia. [[Siberia]] is one of the richest areas of biodiversity, known for its harsh climate and extreme landscapes. Pinkusevich spent her childhood summers in these environments with her grandparents–but because native Siberians were brought to the brink of extinction by white Russian settlers in the nineteenth century, very little indigenous culture remains. When Stalin’s regime then systematically purged shamanism in the 1920s, a mutigenerational amnesia around native heritage and sacred practices afflicted the region. Seeking to reconnect with her lost heritage, Pinkusevich began to learn about Earth Living Systems and [[Gaia hypothesis|Gaia Theory,]] scientific insights built upon indigenous cultural knowledge, the practice of bio regeneration, and sustainable land stewardship. The ''Sakha series'' depicts the artist’s journey through time, mediating upon her connection with an ancient Siberian lineage and exploring the spirituality of her ancestors as a source of inspiration and life.<ref name=":0" /> |
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Significant works created by Pinkusevich have also been the result of the discovery of a declassified military manual from the [[Cold War]] era which gave step-by-step instructions on how to create maps that predict the impact of nuclear bomb airbursts showing fatal and non-fatal casualty [[Contour line|isorithms]] over particular types of habitable regions. She was struck by the immense tension between the elegant geometries and rational calculations of these maps, juxtaposed against the irrational chaos and mass destruction they represent. Pinkusevich draws on her Ukrainian and Russian identity and personal experience of growing up in the USSR at the end of the Cold War, as well as [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|the current Russian invasion of Ukraine]], to create marks made by gestures and physical movements that react to and synthesize the complex relationship between these two countries. Like something out of a post-apocalyptic [[Andrei Tarkovsky|Tarkovsky]] film, Pinkusevich’s work contains no recognizable figures and is instead guided by the sensation of a conceived presence, perhaps our own. The play on time, or rather the lack thereof, coupled with the artists’s steady bend of visual perception, lifts the viewer out of the familiar and into an advanced, abstracted way of contemplating space and time.<ref name=":0" /> <br /> |
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Yulia Pinkusevich | |
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 Yulia Pinkusevich in the studio, 2023. | |
| Born | 1982 |
| Nationality | American, Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, during the former USSR to Russian/ Ukrainian parents |
| Education | BFA from Rutgers University; MFA from Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | Painting Sculpture |
| Movement | Conceptual art Abstract Graphic art |
| Website | www |
Yulia Pinkusevich (born 1982, Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born American visual artist working across various disciplines including painting, drawing, and sculpture. Since 2014, she has been the Joan Danforth Professor of Painting at Mills College of Northeastern in Oakland, California.[1]
Work
[edit]Pinkusevich creates large-scale multi-faceted installation work that presents viewers with visually immersive environments.[2] In an interview, she explains: "Conceptually, my work is concerned with this fragmented vision of architectural layering and perceptions of the built environment. 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 I create illusions of impossible spaces, non-places that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Yulia Pinkusevich". College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD). Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ University of Dubai Interview with Yulia Pinkusevich
- ^ Recology SF Artist Profile
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