I make sculpture from wire, paper, textiles and light. I love giving form to things. My sculptures generally look like they were made by a three-year old. I love balancing wonky imperfection with perfect proportions. Many of my sculptures are meant to be hugged, to give comfort, or to silently be an observant part of the world.
All of my paintings and graphic art are vastly autobiographical, including the ones with confused giraffes, flying pigs, endless sets of not quite parallel lines, bunches of feet facing every which way and endless networks of imperfect triangles. A fair share of stuff flying into and out of the frame. Somehow it never fits.
I don’t do illustration often, but here you can see some of my favorite projects. I love the focus on meaning created by another human in illustration, the process of reinterpreting those meanings and adding your own voice to them, and especially the feeling of resonating with the world you get when things really go right.
I value sharing, especially sharing knowledge, enthusiasm, encouragement, kindness and compassion. I love being inspired through sharing. I guess that’s why I tend to share a lot of the new stuff I learn, as it starts making sense to me. My current biggest passion is teaching fellow artists how to set up their own portfolio websites.
Although I have several collections of apparel planned, here I am so far sharing only a few individual individual pieces I did for friends and family. Still working out a reasonable technological approach for the other pieces I have in mind.
I love stickers. I love seeing them in the streets, I love sticking them to my laptop and bullet journal, and I love the kind used in messengers. Here you can see the sticker packs I made for Telegram messenger, Printable stickers coming soon too.
Recent shows
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Flowers, Kitties, Revolution 2020
Ken Kesey Space, St. Petersburg
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Balancing Act 2019
Open Workshops, St. Petersburg
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Kafka Night 2018
Okhta Lab, St. Petersburg
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Metamorphosis 2018
Open Workshops, St. Petersburg
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Blind Date 2018
FFTN Space, St. Petersburg
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Picture Diary 2017
Open Workshops, St. Petersburg
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The Teapot, the Swing and the Rabbit. 2017
Intimate Space Gallery, St. Petersburg
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Fop's Blouse 2017
Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow
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No Complaints! 2017
Egorka Gallery, St. Petersburg
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Setting Up a Portfolio Site for Artists: A Four Week Practical Workshop 2018
Open Workshops Space, St. Petersburg
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What Does the Internet Know about Us: an Interactive Talk 2018
Tartu, Estonia, Erasmus+
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Collage Workshop at Media Literacy Seminar for Young People 2018
Tartu, Estonia, Erasmus+
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How to Set Up Your Portfolio Website: a Practical Guide for Artists 2018
Open Workshops, St. Petersburg
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Collage Workshop at Erasmus+ Media Literacy Seminar for Young People 2018
Tartu, Estonia
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Wire Sculpture Workshop 2018
Open Workshops, St. Petersburg
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Intro to Animation 2017
Open Workshops, St. Petersburg
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Advanced Wood Carving: Making a Hair Fork 2016
Klass TrueDa, St. Petersburg
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Advanced Scroll Saw Techniques: Earrings and Jewellry 2016
Klass TrueDa, St. Petersburg
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Introdution to Woodwork: Basic Scrollsaw Techniques 2015
Klass TrueDa, St. Petersburg
Teaching
On the blog
The Rhythm — 24.02.2022 – …
The Rhythm is a response to the feelings of pain, guilt, anger, fear, frustration, crushed hopes, and absolute disagreement with the ongoing war. The modular kinetic acoustic installation consists of a set of boxes containing rabbits repeatedly banging their heads against the wall. The rabbits are programmed to bang their heads at different rates, thus creating an ambience of frustration and a rhythm that can never quite be predicted. The Rhythm was
Silent — 24.02.2022 – …
On March 4, 2022 the word “war” was outlawed in Russia. It felt like being violated. Like someone tearing into your body who shouldn’t be there. It was hard to breathe, and for a week after that I found myself regularly having to instruct myself: “breathe in” – walk three steps – “breathe out” – walk three steps – and again over and over. That day a big lump of pain appeared
“_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _” — 24.02.2022 – …
I started these two on the first day of the war, sitting in a long line at the migration center for a friend and finished the line art a few days later. But I only printed these a week or so later when my first run was out. They had the same words as the first rabbit pair from the start, but by the time I was printing them, those words had
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