NEW WORK BY BELARUS-BORN ARTIST ANYA
SMOLNIKOVA SHOWS IN CONJUNCTION WITH PRODUCTION OF ‘THE DIARY OF A MADMAN’ BY NIKOLAI GOGOL AT SEDGWICK THEATER
IN MT. AIRY
PROCESSIONS: New
Work by Anya Smolnikova opens alongside a
Quintessence Theatre Group production of The Diary of a Madman on February 13 and will remain on view
through March 10, 2013 at the Sedgwick Theater
located at 7137 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia. The opening
reception will be held on Friday, February 22 from 6-8.
Much as worship is both a communal and personal practice, these
pieces represent an internal form of meditation that is shared. A series of quirky
chimerical collages, sharp and subtly humorous still-lives, sexually charged
abstracts and experimental collages suggest a struggle between engaging in a
shifting multicultural, multimedia reality, while attempting to harbor a personal
inner peace and process integrity.
A Soviet by birth and Belarusian by upbringing, Anya lived in
the US since 1999. She has traveled extensively through the Balkans, Middle
East, and both Western and Eastern Europe. She is primarily interested in the relationship between visual arts,
cultural displacement, mythology, the occult, theater, human sexuality and deep
sea creatures.
For more information about the work, email Anya
at anya.smolnikova@gmail.com.
For a full catalogue of new work, visit http://processionsnewwork.blogspot.com/.
For information on The Diary, visit www.quintessencetheatre.org/.
For information on The Diary, visit www.quintessencetheatre.org/.
Processions, oil on canvas, 2012
Big Ol', paper assembly, 2012
Veils (The Sailor's Wife), oil on canvas, 2012
Dancer, tape, ink and collage on paper, 2012
Angel I, paper assembly, 2012
Fungus Heart, paper assembly, 2012
Still Lumping, mixed media on paper, 2012
Drury, oil on canvas, 2012
Still-life with Lamb, oil on canvas, 2012
Trim It, paper assembly, 2012
Man on Horse, oil and collage on canvas, 2012
Lumping, mixed media on paper, 2012
Landscape, oil and collage on canvas, 2012
Drury with Water and Lamb, oil on canvas, 2012
Angel, paper assembly, 2012
Sailor, oil and collage on canvas, 2012
Dinner with Cat, oil, collage and spray paint on board, 2011
Procession with Ram, collage on paper, 2012
Trance, collage on paper, 2012
Etude, paper assembly, 2012