Sarah Svetlana is an abstract painter who explores the
fragmentation of the subject in an ongoing search for a home. Her paintings
attempt to reconcile her upbringing in the irreconcilable cultures of the Soviet
Belarus and Immigrant America by drawing roadmaps between two worlds.
A refugee child from the Soviet Union, Svetlana grew up in
Los Angeles. Her constant search for identity drives her to create. Always
observing and noticing the smallest detail within a detail, her paintings do
not only suggest hectic movement, but the stillness locked in each gesture of
that movement.
Her work is “rooted somewhere between the insanity of Wassily
Kandinsky and the line-certainty of the early 20th century Futurists.” Each
painting is a piece of the complex topography that defines both her identity
and her work. Through the narratives created by a methodical application of
color, she delivers an invocation of home - spectral and surreal, but familiar
at the same time.
For Svetlana, “Perfection is boring. The colors I
chose are inspired by my childhood. The bright palette and shapes soothe my
soul, and each line, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, is a vital
moment, an emotion, suspended in time.”
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Artspace Warehouse, Los
Angeles, CA
Torrance Art Museum,
CA, USA
2022 Uncertainty Principles, Artspace Warehouse
The Leftovers, ShockBoxx
No Man's Land, ShockBoxx
The Moods of Winter, ShockBoxx
2021 A Walk on The Lighter Side, Artspace Warehouse
Outside the Circle, Artspace Warehouse
Madre, ShockBoxx
Dude, Unmute Yourself!, ShockBoxx
Thick, ShockBoxx
Hot Damn, ShockBoxx
2020 Astrid Needs The Bail Money, ShockBoxx
Astrid Found The Password (Again)., ShockBoxx
Astrid Found The Password, ShockBoxx
Irregularly Scheduled, ShockBoxx
This: is The Program, ShockBoxx
2020 POWERHOUSE, ShockBoxx
2019 Factual Adaptation, Artspace Warehouse
Rhymes with Dead, ShockBoxx
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2020 секретный сад [Secret Garden], ShockBoxx
