Ella Kruglyanskaya
LOT 11
Untitled (bright), 2024
Flashe, watercolor and oil pastel on paper
19.5 x 12 in
Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery
Suggested retail value: $9,000
Starting bid: $5,000
About the Artwork
Ella Kruglyanskaya works non-hierarchically and seamlessly between the mediums of painting and drawing. Drawing becomes a site of experimentation for her—a refuge from the permanence of a brush stroke and as personal as one’s own handwriting. Challenging the limitations of the frame is a steady theme in Kruglyanskaya’s paintings, and her latest works continue to negotiate the relationship between the spectator and her fictional characters. Kruglyanskaya’s women reenact and subvert the womanhood canonized in traditions of Western painting and in visual culture, infusing gendered tropes with her brash and comedic approach to representation. These women sexually flourish in seclusion, a reclamation of femininity which is not to be mistaken for privacy. In Kruglyanskaya’s painting on paper, Untitled (bright), a woman stands in shadow, shielding her vision from incoming streaks of hot light. Her self-expressive, dramatized posture reveals a certain resignation towards the state of things. This work relates to a group of new paintings by the artist, recently exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles. Kruglyanskaya has had recent solo exhibitions at Bortolami, New York; Thomas Dane Gallery, London; Feuilleton, Los Angeles; and Real Pain Fine Arts, Los Angeles. Past solo exhibitions have been held at The Power Station, Dallas; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York and Rome, Italy; Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, Scotland; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; and Studio Voltaire, London, UK. Works by Kruglyanskaya have been included in group exhibitions at The Issac Bell House, Providence, Rhode Island; The Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; The Baltic Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania; The Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois; The Hepworth Wakefield, Hepworth, UK; Pace Gallery, London, UK; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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