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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 Bay Area following studies at Stanford University, Pinkusevich works as a painter and multi-disciplinary artist. Her background is defined by change. Born and raised in the USSR, her understanding of rules, social status, and human achievements were uprooted when her family immigrated to the United States in 1991. Learning to adapt, observe carefully, and move fluidly through her surroundings became a survival strategy. Due to this history, Yulia possesses an amalgam of opposing belief systems which are reflected most clearly in her early, |
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architecturally-based works. |
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Pinkusevich’s parents were both trained engineers in the USSR during the space race. The Soviet obsession with the unknown is deeply seared into Yulia’s methodology. She was born and educated until second grade during the political movement called Perestroika that precipitated a massive reform. As she recalls quite clearly, “in school we were taught that the Soviets were the first people to go into space. We were also taught that the Soviet army was responsible for ending WWII.” When she first immigrated to New York City, she attended public school in Coney Island noting: |
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|text=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. |
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==Work== |
==Work== |
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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>[http://www.recologysf.com/index.php/yulia-pinkusevich Recology SF Artist Profile]</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 focuses on her maternal ancestors who were indigenous Siberians practicing forms of shamanism in the Sakha region of Russia. Siberia is one of the richest areas for biodiversity in the world, known for its harsh climate and extreme landscapes. Pinkusevich spent her childhood summers in these environments with her grandparents, but very little indigenous culture remains. Native Siberians were brought to the brink of extinction by white Russian settlers in the nineteenth century, and when Stalin’s regime systematically purged shamanism in the 1920s, a multi-generational amnesia around native heritage and sacred practices afflicted the region. Seeking to reconnect with her lost heritage, Pinkusevich began to study Earth Living Systems, 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. |
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Pinkusevich’s Isorithm Series was the result of her 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 by showing fatal and non-fatal casualty isorithms over particular types of habitable regions. She was struck by the immense tension between the elegant geometries and rational calculations of these maps against the irrational chaos and mass destruction they represent. In the series, Pinkusevich draws upon her Ukrainian and Russian identity and personal experience of growing up in the USSR at the end of the Cold War, as well as the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, to create marks that react to and synthesize the complex relationship between these two countries. Like something out of a post-apocalyptic Tarkovsky film, Pinkusevich’s work contains no recognizable figures and is instead guided by the sensation of a conceived presence, perhaps our own. The artist's steady bend of visual perception lifts the viewer out of the familiar and into an advanced, abstracted way of contemplating space and time. |
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==Biography== |
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Pinkusevich received her formal training at Rutgers University (2006) and an MFA degree from Stanford University (2012). Notable collections and commissions of her work include the McMurtry Building at Stanford University, Meta HQ, Google HQ, The City of Albuquerque and most recently the DeYoung 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 Professorship of Studio Art at Mills College in Oakland (recently acquired by Northeastern University, Massachusetts). |
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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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