Here Comes the Sun

The hand-blown shape of fluctuating translucency of bright yellow glass resembles a living organism. It rests on black industrial casters, a familiar item from a hardware store. The two components of the sculpture that are brought together, suggest a potential of a cartoonish disaster - casters are rolling, and glass form is breaking.

Inna Babaeva's work takes off-the-shelf objects and mass-consumption materials and combines them with hand-blown glass sculptures that she makes herself. The shapes, colors, and fluctuating translucency of the glass alludes to the bodies of living organisms - fragile, vulnerable, and comical all at once. Her approach to glass blowing shows an appreciation for the material's beauty, peculiarity, and spiritedness. Babaeva's work probes the parallel coexistence of mass-produced and unique, machine-made and crafted-by-hand, disposable and precious.

Recent solo exhibitions include Hofstra University Art Gallery, Hempstead, NY, (2022), Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY( 2021), Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY (2021), Essex Flowers, New York, NY(2020), Art in Buildings, New York, NY(2017) and at TSA, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Institutional exhibitions include Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, Gordon Galleries at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Kienzie Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany, and Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL

Babaeva's work has been featured in The New York Times, VICE Magazine, December Magazine, SLEEK Magazine, Sculpture Center Notebooks, Glass Quarterly, and Art News, among others. Inna Babaeva is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program grant, a Visiting Artist Fellowship grant at Urban Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center's Ron Desmett Award, and she was a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant nominee. Permanent collections include Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Babaeva received her MFA from Rutgers University and her BFA from Florida Atlantic University. She was born in Lviv, Ukraine, and she lives and works in New York City.

10in. w x 15in. h x 10in. l

http://www.innababaeva.com

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