Artist: Nataliya Yermolenko

Year Completed: 2020

Medium: Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

Dimensions in Inches (HxWxD): 48" x 36" - unframed

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About the Artist:

Informed by her formal fashion illustration background, Nataliya Yermolenko focuses on bringing a unique perspective to the genre of pop art by achieving a careful balance between detail and negative space. The artist's subjects range from prominent historical icons to personal muses in her intimate circle.

Focusing primarily on portraiture, Yermolenko explores the significance of color and line placement through a lens of muted New Deco style popularized in the 1980s. The artist's body of work invites the viewer's eye to connect what has been intentionally omitted through the use of strategic line placement and deliberate, striking color balance.

Nataliya's last name is Ukrainian, she was born in Moldova and is part Russian. "This makes it especially complicated because there are many people in Ukraine and Russia who are part one or the other, as well as many other ethnicities. Taking into consideration how transient the larger cities were among Soviet republics and how diverse the populations became across the 70-year lifespan of the Soviet Union, its inhabitants were from everywhere."

"My paternal grandfather was Ukrainian but my father was born in Uzbekistan. My maternal grandfather was from Moldova and my grandmother was from Kazakstan but ultimately my parents met in St. Petersburg, and I was born in Moldova. We truly are from everywhere. Outside of political sovereignty, we're talking about an active purge of ethnically related people and a culture that's so close to that of Russia, it echoes the Stalinist regime. There is a complicated mixture of emotions that's difficult to fully articulate, ultimately sheathed in dumbfounded guilt, that my people are committing atrocious acts towards also, my people."

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