Panda Ghosts

Product Description

6″ x 6″, Watercolor on Clayboard

Current Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: Pandamonium from June 7th to 27th, 2014

Previous Exhibitions at Flower Pepper Gallery:
- The Brave Ones from Oct 10th to Nov 5th, 2014
- The Season of Spring from March 1st to April 4th, 2014
- Designer Con 2013 from November 9th & 10th, 2013
- The Tale of Two Legs Standing from April 14th – May 17th, 2012

Artist Biography:
Yevgeniya Mikhailik’s work deals with human experiences portrayed through animals and the relationships that arise from interactions with nature and other species. Within the narratives, she ties in themes from Russian folklore and draws on nostalgia and her own experiences growing up among time-worn architecture, forests and rural landscapes. She was born in Tomsk, Russia in 1987. Her family relocated to the United States when she was 13 years old. She graduated from California State University, Long Beach with BFA in 2009 and MFA in 2013. She recently took on a major curatorial position with Irvine Fine Arts Center as Art Exhibition and Education Specialist.

Artist Statement:
“My work focuses on relationships between people, places and objects and how these relationships affect our lives and shape our personalities. Being no stranger to constant relocation has affected the way I relate to spaces that I have inhabited and places that were at one point dear to me. I treasure the memories of those places almost as if they were memories of people, and in my work, depict them as such. Ghosts of past residences linger inside glass jars, while uninhabited landscapes become like intimate portraits. They are at once musical and still, and, like memories, fragmented and whole, alive and preserved.” – Yevgeniya Mikhailik

Yevgeniya’s interview with Hi-Fructose:
http://hifructose.com/2011/06/30/an-interview-with-yevgeniya-mikhailik/

Yevgeniya’s interview with KCET:
http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/orange/yevgeniya-mikhailik-artist.html

Education:
MFA Illustration | CSU Long Beach, 2013
BFA Illustration | CSU Long Beach, 2009

Select Exhibitions:

2015
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY – Other Places (solo)
RAW SALT GALLERY – Inaugural Exhibition

2014
BUSTAMANTE GILL GALLERY – C.FEIGN JUNIOR PROJECT Tender Remains (two-person exhibition)
PHONE BOOTH GALLERY 6×6
FLOWER PEPPER GALLERY Signs of Spring
IRVINE FINE ARTS CENTER Paper Farm
COPRO GALLERY Convergence
F+ GALLERY Stone’s Throw
NAMASTE – C.FEIGN JUNIOR PROJECT Arcadia

2013
F+ Gallery – Newton’s Third
Dennis W. Dutzi Gallery – Longing Limned – MFA Project Exhibition
MondoPop, Rome – Suggestivism Rome
Galleria Provinciale Santa Chiara, Cosenza, Italy – Suggestivism – The New Horizon
Coastline Community College Art Gallery – Making/Working
Gallery Nucleus – Society of Illustrators LA: Illustration West 51

2012
AR4T – Where The Sidewalk Ends
Art Du Vin – Lost and Found – Solo Exhibition
Bold Hype Gallery – NYC – Suggestivism NYC
225 Forest – Creatures from The Deep
CSULB University Art Museum – Insights 2012
Flower Pepper – The Tale of Two Legs Standing
Gallery Nucleus – Society of Illustrators LA: Illustration West 50
Max Gatov Gallery – MFA Advancement Show

2011
CSULB University Art Museum – Insights 2011
Hibbleton Gallery – Counterparts
The Box Gallery – Tupelo Honey
Gallery Nucleus – Society of Illustrators LA: Illustration West 49

2010
Pacific Electric Lofts – Downtown LA – BLUECANVAS Issue 6 Launch Event
Grand Central Art Center Rental and Sales Gallery – Roost
Gallery Nucleus – ICON6 – Labor of Line
Grand Central Art Center Rental and Sales Gallery – Kindred Spirits
Phone Booth Gallery – Girs! Girls! Girls!
Phone Booth Gallery – Off the Hook III

2009
CSULB University Art Museum – Insights 2009
Dutzi Gallery – The Earth Day Show
Max Gatov Gallery – Illustration BFA Show
Marilyn Werby Gallery – INK 3
Gallery Nucleus: Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles – Illustration West 47

2008
Grand Central Art Center Rental and Sales Gallery – The Paper Show
Merlino Gallery – The Doodle Show
Grand Central Art Center Rental and Sales Gallery – The Happy Show

2007
Grand Central Art Center Project Room – In, Above, & Around Santiago Park Grand Central Art Center Rental and Sales Gallery – Local Motion
Gatov Gallery – (dis)Connected

Honors/Awards:
Outstanding Creative Achievement Award, 2013
President F King Alexander Purchase Award, 2009, 2012
Elizabeth Vyse Memorial Art Scholarship, 2012
Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, Illustration West 47-50
Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, Student Scholarship, 2007

Publications/Press:
KCET ArtBound, April 2015
Platinum Cheese Blog, May 2014
Riviera Magazine, February 2013
Spider Magazine, 2012
CD SAVOIA Short Film, October 2012
OC Art Blog, November 2012
Suggestivism NYC Exhibition Catalog
Hi-Fructose Blog, June 2011
Small Magazine, Spring 2011
BLUECANVAS Magazine, Issue 5
Orange County Register, May 22, 2010, Weighty and Wispy Pieces, by Richard Chang
OC Weekly, Calendar, April 1, 2010, Kindred Spirits
District, Vol.3.Issue 6, Long Beach, CA
Genre 9 Literary Journal, CSULB
CMYK Magazine, Issue 39, Illustration category
In, Above, and Around Santiago Park, Exhibition Catalog, Published by Grand Central Press

Artist Website: http://www.yevgeniyadraws.com/

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