Yana Payusova : When My Neighbor Told Me I Would Die
Sept. 7 - Oct.2, 2007
Opening Reception SATURDAY: Sept. 15th 5- 7pm

 

For Immediate Release

 

Howard Yezerski Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of paintings by Yana Payusova: When My Neighbor Told Me I Would Die. Born in Leningrad, USSR and classically trained as a painter at the St. Petersburg Fine Art Lycee, Payusova creates vivid expressive paintings that depict childhood memories from growing up in the USSR.

Drawn with a whimsical touch the paintings become complex overlapping visual narratives, embedded with symbolic elements. Interested in the glitches and gaps in memories, in particular the effortless way that the mind alters and transforms remembered events; Paysova creates a series that visually combines time, space, memory and imagination in an attempt to recreate the sensations and observations that shaped her childhood. In these paintings she gives us a glimpse of life real and imagined of growing up in the USSR.

After immigrating to the US she received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL in 2001 and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Photography & Media Arts in 2006.

 

 

For further information please contact Alexis Dunfee at Howard Yezerski Gallery 617.262.0550 Tuesday - Saturday 10-5:30pm