Portfolio - oil artist Evgenia Poberezhna
I started looking at painting as my only option when I realized that anything else I would be doing would be worse, and I was no longer interested in anything but painting. It was a conscious and mature choice, after many years of work as a graphic designer. Today, my work focuses on people. I explore certain moments in life, and what they are made of. Gestures, movements, looks, and something else: elusive but tangible and precise, a silence of concentration, an inner contemplation of reflection. I am moved by scenes of in-depth relationships and subtle intimacy. Themes of female nature, family, maturing, and childhood. Every so often I reveal something personal, like my son. Sometimes I am just guided by what I see. My primary modes of expression are oil painting, drawing, mixed media, and collage. I do many sketches from life, which is the basis of all my work. It brings me back to a permanent state, in my own unique space and time. Expression, spontaneity, something pulsating, not obvious and accomplished – that's what I'm after. This is the only way for creativity to have its own voice and nerve. Because art is not about form, meaning, or aesthetics. It is a way of thinking, a path.
I started looking at painting as my only option when I realized that anything else I would be doing would be worse, and I was no longer interested in anything but painting. It was a conscious and mature choice, after many years of work as a graphic designer.
Today, my work focuses on people. I explore certain moments in life, and what they are made of. Gestures, movements, looks, and something else: elusive but tangible and precise, a silence of concentration, an inner contemplation of reflection. I am moved by scenes of in-depth relationships and subtle intimacy. Themes of female nature, family, maturing, and childhood. Every so often I reveal something personal, like my son. Sometimes I am just guided by what I see.
My primary modes of expression are oil painting, drawing, mixed media, and collage. I do many sketches from life, which is the basis of all my work. It brings me back to a permanent state, in my own unique space and time.
Expression, spontaneity, something pulsating, not obvious and accomplished – that's what I'm after. This is the only way for creativity to have its own voice and nerve. Because art is not about form, meaning, or aesthetics. It is a way of thinking, a path.
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EVGENIA
POBEREZHNA
PORTFOLIO
UKRAINIAN PAINTER
"ART IS NOT ABOUT FORM, MEANING,
OR AESTHETICS. IT IS A WAY OF
THINKING, A PATH"
Bio
Evgenia Poberezhna is a Ukrainian figurative painter.
She was born in 1985 in Crimea. She lives and works in
the Kyiv area. In 2007, she received her bachelor's
degree in graphic design from the Crimea State
Humanitarian University in Yalta at the Faculty of Arts.
Member of the union of Ukrainian artists UARTIST 83.
Evgenia's work focuses on people. Her practice
explores certain moments of life, and what they are
made of. She draws on themes of childhood, family,
and growing up as a foundation for these explorations.
Her primary modes of expression are oil painting,
drawing, mixed media, and collage.
Evgenia views art as a way of thinking and a path
rather than as a form, meaning, or aesthetic. She has
participated in various exhibition projects in Ukraine
and Europe.
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PAINTINGS
ART DURING THE WAR
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
Since 24 February 2022, the whole world is watching
how the Ukrainian nation is rallying to resist the
aggressor and defend its own land and
independence.
What hurts me the most today is that our children see
this endless war with their own eyes, and it destroys
them. They just don't understand why anyone would
do this to them and the people they love, their
homes, their cities.
The picture "In the Shelter" is about love, because
after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was often the
only shelter the children have had.
The work was presented at the charity exhibition "In
Ukraine" dedicated to International Refugee Day at
the Apis Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
IN THE SHELTER
2022, oil, acrylic on canvas, 50x70 cm
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PAINTINGS
ART DURING THE WAR
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
This artwork was created as part of a grant project
Re:connection, represented at the exhibition “Art is us”
the Apis Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
About project:
The RE:CONNECTION project is aimed at the rebirth of
our heritage, its reinterpretation in today's
circumstances, and acknowledging the value of who we
are. 5 Ukrainian artists from different cities participated
in the project. The topic of my research was Crimea.
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In 2014, Russia occupied the Crimean Peninsula as a
result of the military aggression against Ukraine, which
continues to this day.
For many years now, I have not been able to get to my
beloved Crimea. To my Crimea - where I was born, the
one I cherish, the one I miss, the one I'm waiting for.
Through this project, I decided to focus attention on
the cultural heritage of the indigenous people of
Crimea - the Crimean Tatars.
That's why the key theme of my works is Crimean Tatar
embroidery, which is definitely a unique phenomenon
of world culture.
Feeling myself a part of Crimea, its culture and art, I
expressed this through self-portraits that seem to
plunge into the nature and space of the peninsula
through imaginative memory, my infinite longing and
love.
RE:CONNECTION #4
2023, oil & collage on canvas, 40x60 cm
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PAINTINGS
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
REST IN THE MUSEUM CAREFREE SLEEP
2020, oil, oil pastel on canvas, 50x70 cm 2021, oil, oil pastel on canvas, 40x30 cm 2021, oil, ink, oil pastel on canvas, 40x30 cm
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PAINTINGS
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
SAFE TIME
2022, oil, pastel on canvas, 50x70 cm
APPLES
2020, oil on paper, 42x30 cm
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PAINTINGS
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
The work was presented at the "World stands
with Ukraine" virtual exhibition in the Artit
gallery, London, UK
Details
OUR SKY
2019, oil on canvas, 100x120 cm
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DRAWINGS
ART DURING THE WAR
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
FREE LAND
2022, paper, mixed media, 30х42 cm
The work was presented at the First International Drawing Triennial
"Glory to Ukraine!" in the Center of Contemporary Art "White World",
Kyiv, Ukraine
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DRAWINGS
ART DURING THE WAR
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
THE SERIES "DAY LIKE NIGHT"
2022, paper, collage, mixed media, 42x30 cm
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MIXED MEDIA DRAWINGS
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
AFTER THE HOLIDAY FIRST DAY IN THE MUSEUM
2021, paper, mixed media, 70x50 cm 2021, paper, mixed media, 76x56 cm 2021, paper, collage, mixed media, 70x50 cm
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MIXED MEDIA DRAWINGS
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
CAREFREE SLEEP THE WIND WILL BE TOMORROW CAKE
2020, paper, mixed media, 86x61 cm 2021, paper, mixed media, 86x61 cm 2021, paper, mixed media, 86x61 cm
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COLLAGES
ART DURING THE WAR
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
Collages from the "Unexplored impact" series were presented at the
international collage exhibition "Genesis of Being" by art project CUTOUT
COLLAGE at the Center for Architecture, Design, and Urbanism, Lviv, Ukraine
This series explores the effects of war on children's psyches.
QUESTIONS
MANY QUESTIONS
2022, paper, analog collage, 42x30 cm 2022, paper, analog collage, 42x30 cm
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COLLAGES
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
BEAUTIFUL DREAM SHATTERED NIGHT ON THE ISLAND
2022, paper, oil, collage, 26x34 cm 2022, paper, mixed media, collage, 70x50 cm 2020, paper, ink, oil pastel, collage, 60x45 cm
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SKETCHES 2019-22
EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
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EVGENIA POBEREZHNA
CONTACT
Based in Kyiv area, Ukraine
evgeniapoberezhna@gmail.com
@evgeniapoberezhna
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