Eight days left to see my solo show Family Album
Bright colors, loose brushwork
Perhaps it all started with this stylish babushka. I feel like a lot of the single figure small paintings in this show are in conversation with her.
That painting of a granny in a bright blue blazer was a departure from my usual muted somber color palette. In the past I stayed true to the brown-grey scale of the post-soviet everyday. But this spring something shifted. Maybe Portland sun shone brighter than usual. Maybe my summer visit to the Mediterranean infused me with even more light and warmth, but suddenly my palette got lighter and brighter. I talked about playing around with a brighter color palette in a blog post recently and this show of thirteen new paintings is the culmination of months of exploration of color and looser paint application.
This one is from @_d_andreev. Thank you! Your track suits are beautiful and shiny, such a pleasure to paint.
