under the umbrella (2021) Painting by Ekaterina Shchepina

As an artist, I am primarily interested in the construction of a composition, the interaction of local color spots with spots containing an ornament. I consider integrity, not only colors, but also the unity and subordination of details, lines, shapes of spots, to be an important quality of painting. I attribute my work more to color graphics than to painting, color for me is one of the motivators for writing this or that work. For example, if the red spot is so attractive, then I match all the other colors to it, set myself the task of voicing all the shades in a single ensemble. Since graphics often require an even local spot, this has influenced the choice of materials I work with: acrylic, tempera, felt-tip pens. dreams). It is possible to move from one plane to another, especially when the plane of reality becomes too tense. My painting becomes a game experiment that allows me to explore my experience more deeply, to understand myself. My real life is prosaic - family, home, work. Therefore, the game for me is out of the ordinary. I am trying to cope with the psychobiological stress that my relatives put on me, sometimes my life seems to be eventless next to me, but as an artist I am free to generate my own worlds, trying on different roles and exploring different identities. My works are games with dressing up, a stabilizing mechanism for saving oneself, a remedy for burnout, it is also a way to maintain inner balance. I put myself in different circumstances, playing with social, gender, subcultural roles. I give special preference to an interesting costume, when the clothes are no less eloquent than the character's face. The hero plunges into the environment of color spots, ornaments and prints. Drawing them, I not only experience the effect of replacing the plane of reality, but also completely abstract from it, imagining myself as something third - not myself, not a character from the picture, but a symbiotic organism.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Russian Contemporary Artists