• Polina Barskaya - Time Passing

    January 6 - 27, 2021

     

     
  • Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present Time Passing, an online solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based Russian artist Polina Barskaya, opening...

    Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present Time Passing, an online solo exhibition by  Brooklyn-based Russian artist Polina Barskaya, opening virtually on January 6, 2021.

  • POLINA BARSKAYA B. 1984 in Cherkassy, USSR. Lives and works in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. Polina Barskaya received a MFA...

    POLINA BARSKAYA

    B. 1984 in Cherkassy, USSR.

    Lives and works in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY.

     

    Polina Barskaya received a MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and a BA from Hunter College, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Anna Zorina Gallery, NY; Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam; and Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY. Barskaya’s work is included in an upcoming three-person exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery in January 2021 titled Me, Myself and I with Aubrey Levinthal and Justin Liam O’Brien. Her work was selected by Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine for the New American Paintings Northeast Edition (2020). This year, she was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.



    • Barskaya’s confessional portraits have a diaristic quality to them. Working from photographs, but allowing for artistic liberties, Barskaya depicts herself, her child and her husband within a domestic space. These...
    • Barskaya’s paintings hone in on the psychological intensity of their subjects. Within enclosed spaces, Barskaya often uses windows and light to create a sense of disconnect and isolation. Quiet, and...
    • A nude man is depicted lounging in bed in an impersonal room with an empty desk and nightstand. Perhaps he is just waking up or returning from a swim on...
  • Echoes of Pierre Bonnard and Giorgio Morandi are evident in the use of light and color. A nude man is...

    Echoes of Pierre Bonnard and Giorgio Morandi are evident in the use of light and color. A nude man is depicted lounging in bed in an impersonal room

    with an empty desk and nightstand. Perhaps he is just waking up or returning from a swim on a summer day.

  • Within enclosed spaces, Barskaya often uses windows and light to create a sense of disconnect and isolation. Quiet, and still,... Within enclosed spaces, Barskaya often uses windows and light to create a sense of disconnect and isolation. Quiet, and still,...

    Within enclosed spaces, Barskaya often uses windows

    and light to create a sense of disconnect and isolation. Quiet,

    and still, with rumbling under tones, her paintings are stories

    about the human condition.

  • Works

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