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Artist Statement
There is a fundamental difference between the philosopher and the artist. One seeks being in the realm of language with the ideal of logic as a means to a development of thought. The end is understanding existence. The other seeks being in the sphere of the emphatically sensory with the unclear purpose of recreating the sensory dimension of being, regardless of intellectual stimuli. The end is experiencing aesthetics. This is why I tend to disfavor the verbalizing of artist statements as superfluous. The work of an artist is his or her only sincere statement. Many artists whom I know personally are reluctant to translate their work into essays. Accomplished and influential artists, such as the late cinephile Stanley Kubrick, have proposed that their work cannot be translated into the linguistic with fidelity. Visual aesthetics and philosophical texts are essentially distinct. The self-search to undo the ambiguity of visual art is the anti-aesthetic effort to dispel its stimuli and distort the work.
The artist states by being. The consequential statements constitute the reception borne by the public and more significantly, the historian. It is therefore, with reluctance, that I offer my remaining views on what I think about my specific work, its progression, and that which drives me to its production as a habit.
In my art, the female persona interests me because it appears transcendental in the human experience, either via imagination or emotion. I seek to capture this transcendence, by the whispers and mystery of figures isolated in the vacuum of the art sphere. In my ceramics, I use earthly hues especially as homage to the chemical nature of clay. For my Venus series, I used iron oxide on these figures of women who are ambiguously pregnant or have a large belly. These figures interact with simple geometric shapes that dwarf them in scale. The shape is often a smooth ring or a rectangular prism resembling a rough wooded post. In contrast to the smooth texture of the rings, the figures have a rough, earth-like surface. These are crudely detailed; but their limbs are approximately proportional. The only figural motif that is exaggerated is their belly. Also, the bases for these works are simple wooden bases that I painted black.
In my paintings, I use family members as inspiration for the figures. I also appropriate images from corset and lingerie catalogs of the 1920s though the 1960s. These images consist of mostly female figures interacting with simple geometric shapes. These acrylic and collage works have a blue-gray color scheme with accents of red. In these images, as opposed to the ceramic pieces. Elena Petroukhina
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Your Canvas Junkie Host

I am your host at Canvas Junkie and work in several media. I design and make one of a kind sculpture you can wear or jewelry.

As well as paint, make found object sculpture and generally will chase after anything sparkly. When I was a teen my dad would introduce me as his daughter with the disclaimer of "You know artists are weird".

Now that I have seen many years of life pass by (I'm in denial about exactly how many)............. I'm happy to be known as an artist because....... life is just weird.