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Untitled
While abstract, this small, knotty painting holds cryptic and voluptuous iconography, resembling talismans that could be either ancient or futuristic. As an immigrant, the artist is inspired by artworks that span many centuries and cultures, as well as the varying landscapes and architecture where she has lived.
Yevgeniya Baras shapes her paintings through an accumulation of layers, combining oil media with found and unconventional materials. The resulting objects hover between painting and sculptural relief, often refusing definitive boundaries by extending past the sides and supports of the canvas. In these stratified compositions, Baras creates symbolic topographies that address ideas of language, migration, and translation—all of which she finds deeply personal.
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③ Artist:
Yevgeniya Baras shapes her paintings through an accumulation of layers, combining oil media with found and unconventional materials. The resulting objects hover between painting and sculptural relief, often refusing definitive boundaries by extending past the sides and supports of the canvas. In these stratified compositions, Baras creates symbolic topographies that address ideas of language, migration, and translation—all of which she finds deeply personal.
Yevgeniya Baras was born in Syzran in the former Soviet Union and lives in New York City, NY. She holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MA in Education from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2007).
She has mounted solo exhibitions of her work at Sargent’s Daughters in New York City, NY (2023); Soco Gallery in Charlotte, NC (2023); The Landing in Los Angeles, CA (2022); Station Gallery in Melbourne, Australia (2022); Reyes Finn Gallery in Detroit, MI (2019); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York City, NY (2019); and elsewhere.
Baras has been included in group exhibitions such as Touchstones at Sargent’s Daughters in New York City, NY (2023); The Ways of Magic at Troost Gardens in Kansas City, MO (2023); Milton Resnick, Yevgeniya Baras, David Reed, John Moore at the Milton Resnick Foundation in New York City, NY (2022); To Make Me Forget About Now at Galerie Julien Cadet in Paris, France (2022); Cosmic Geometries at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City, NY (2022); and others.
Baras received the Pollock-Krasner grant (2023, 2018), a Senior Fulbright Scholarship (2022/2023), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2021), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2019), the Artadia Prize (2015), and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize (2014).
She attended the Chinati Foundation Residency (2018), the Yaddo Residency (2017), the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2015), and the MacDowell Colony Residency (2015).
Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America.
While abstract, this small, knotty painting holds cryptic and voluptuous iconography, resembling talismans that could be either ancient or futuristic. As an immigrant, the artist is inspired by artworks that span many centuries and cultures, as well as the varying landscapes and architecture where she has lived.More
- Unframed
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