Wednesday, February 6, 2013


 PRESS RELEASE


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/.




 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



Annika, graphite on paper, 2012

  Poetry Reading, graphite on paper, 2012




The Women, graphite on paper, 2012



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