Ella Kruglyanskaya’s Bather With Sun shades offered for £20,320 at Phillips Wired: On-line Public sale on April 12-19, 2023. Born in Latvia, Kruglyanskaya now lives and works in New York Metropolis. Recognized for her outsized canvases, Kruglyanskaya’s works actually pack a punch together with her voluptuous and fierce feminine figures.
Although her pictures are at instances paying homage to comedian strips of the 50s and 60s (however with an unstated punchline), Kruglyanskaya reassures her viewers that her artwork could be very a lot trendy—full with humor-tinged scenes and a “don’t take your self so critically” perspective. Her work is thought to reject any clear narrative or private model; she describes her work as “what you see is what you get.” The feminine characters she depicts are inclined to mix with their backgrounds but, on the identical time, appear to burst out of the body with their outfits and expressions.
What makes Kruglyanskaya’s artwork stand out is her potential to work in a number of methods of portray, fairly than presenting a sequence of work linked by model and topic, per Roberta Smith’s New York Instances overview of Kruglanskaya’s 2021 exhibition at Bortolami Gallery in New York Metropolis. Kruglyanskaya has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, London, Rome and Berlin, and her artwork is included within the collections of the Tate Gallery in London.
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