EKATERINA SMIRNOVA
Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), 1981
Intense, pasty and tactile watercolours. Nothing to do with transparent and lightly hued landscapes. Ekaterina Smironova realizes them adding several layers, using big and coarse paint brushes, scratching the rough paper, spurting it, mixing her sophisticated sense of drawing with impulsive gestures, real dripping. Huge, burdened, gloomy and deeply striking pieces of art. City visions realized through colour dripping which overlies the buildings’ verticality, thus creating a slacked symphony. Ekaterina favours transition hours, before dawn or after sunset, moments filled with shadows, vibrations and possibilities.
She was born in 1981 in Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia). After graduating at the Art School of her birthplace in 1996, she got a Law degree and in 2006 moved to New York, where she attended the Art Students League. Winner of several awards during the last three years, among which the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America, she participated at numerous solo and group exhibitions all over the world. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
