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KATYA KARDONOVA

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Ekaterina Kardonova was born in Moscow, Russia where she graduated with an M.A. in Fine Arts. She moved to the United States in 1998 and is an avid landscape and portrait painter who has honed her skills for fine detail from her classical training. Her working experience includes installation of art in several public settings including the Tropicana Pavilion in Atlantic City, the Palm restaurants, and the Suraya restaurant in Philadelphia. In addition she has steadily worked to build a portfolio of commissioned portraits and figurative compositions in her New Jersey studio, while keeping her professional life busy by teaching art to adults and children for the past 15 years.

2020

The impact of the world’s recently disconnected social context and global turbulence has manifested itself as many new personal directions in Ekaterina's life. These include experiments in her painting by way of new expressive constraints, choices of paint medium, and application technique. The sum of these are captured in her recent series which marks a notable departure from the larger body of work she has amassed over the past two decades. Completed in the summer of 2020, it was painted using a less intimate process while, in contrast, using a dearly adored muse as the subject. The series walks a fine line between the conceptually-driven abstract and the figurative discipline of her earlier traditional work. The portrait subjects are at times visible, distorted through elements of the scene or absent of tangible recognition at all. Similarly the choices of colour are as loyal to an emotional environment as they are a visual depiction of the surroundings. The vibrant paintings at first glance convey the genuine youthful innocence of a carefree summer afternoon. But the facade can be penetrated upon deeper reflection to reveal more consequential layers beneath, in emotion as well as physical texture.

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