BIO
I am an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media, based in Vienna, Virginia, near Washington, DC.
Originally from Rostov-Veliky, Russia, I studied at the Kalinin Art Academy in Moscow before earning my BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
My work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and the United Kingdom. Recent solo exhibitions include Solace at NOVA’s Waddell Art Gallery and Emergences at Art Works in Richmond. In 2026, my residency at Arts 14C in Jersey City provided space to develop new work connecting the figure, urban spaces, and memory.
Alongside my studio practice, I have taught art for more than thirteen years, helping young artists develop their skills and discover their own visual language.

PRACTICE
I explore women’s inner lives through our relationships with the spaces around us. I am drawn to moments of stillness within everyday activity, when we are visibly present but our thoughts seem to occupy another place. Through painting, printmaking, and mixed media, I consider how the environments we move through become part of us.
In my recent work, figures merge with windows, railings, train platforms, and architectural grids. Layered color, gestural brushwork, and fragments of printed and painted imagery allow the city to pass through their bodies, blurring the boundaries between a physical setting and an interior world. Structures suggest both support and constraint; intersecting routes become possibilities, choices, or tangles of thought.
I work intuitively, allowing unexpected relationships between materials and images to redirect each composition. Fragments of earlier work carry their histories into new settings, where their meanings shift. This openness echoes the experience of moving through the world, where a reflection, a stranger, or a change in light can alter our perception of familiar surroundings. We share streets, trains, and buildings, yet each of us inhabits a different version of the world.